Below is everything (newest at top) with "life OR travel OR economy" in its title or subcategories. For a strict listing (matching all categories and subcats), click here THE POWER OF WORDS: BOOSTING YOUR SMALL BUSINESS THROUGH BETTER PUBLIC SPEAKINGfrom 2024 in ( life / money / economy / entrepreneurship )titleclick for full image hreffreepik.com/free-photo/male-business-executive-giving-speech8236858.htm Standing before an audience a... read more EYES WIDE SHUTfrom 2023 in ( education / research / economy )It's my opinion that people who rely on TV for all their information, or major newspapers and radio, will refuse to believe the severity of the looming financial crash being orchestrated right now. Notice that gold shot above $2000 in the last couple days? Silver went up, too. A 20% higher silver spot price in just a month. Supplies drying u... read more PSYCHOLOGY, STUDENT COUNSELING HAVE THE WORST ROI AT TEXAS COLLEGESfrom 2022 in ( education / schools / economy )Psychology, student counseling services, music, law and dentistry programs at Texas public universities have the most low-performing programs in terms of debt to earnings ratio, according to the report. thecollegefix.com/texas-report-highlights-state-college-programs-with-worst... read more HOW INFLATION IS KILLING MEfrom 2022 in ( life / money / economy )I am a small, semi-retired farmer. Only 30 acres and 10 mother cows. My wife still has a couple years to work. We have been looking forward to this time of our lives since we got married 46 years ago. Things are so bad here that what we used to take for granted has now become a luxury. We have one of the best restaurants in the whole area j... read more 4 BIG NAMES WARNING THAT MAJOR ECONOMIC DISASTER IS AHEADfrom 2022 in ( education / news / economy )Trying to create a panic.I hope that you are enjoying these beautiful summer weekends while you still can, because it appears that very troubled times are dead ahead. Simultaneously, inflation continues to spiral out of control even as economic activity in the U.S. dramatically slows down. Many have...... read more GLOBALISTS INTENTIONALLY DESTROYING THE FOOD SUPPLY TO CREATE A CRISISfrom 2022 in ( education / news / economy )Yes, they are. About 6,500 people were told to evacuate their homes in Winston-Salem, North Carolina today, when a fire broke out overnight at a fertilizer plant that Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo said contained an estimated 5,000 tons of finished fertilizer... healt... read more SUPPLY CHAIN DOWNfrom 2021 in ( education / research / conspiracies / economy )Anonymous says: There are already big shortages in auto and other industries. More shortages will follow, including grocery stores. Stock up now or you'll later wish you did. See zerohedge.com/economics/we-cannot-survive-here-over-1000-crew-members-are-stranded-cargo-ships-globally-withoutzerohedge.co... read more WHY WE HAVE USURYfrom 2021 in ( life / money / economy / history )Wow. Talk about the good ol' days. OK, it wasn't all good, obviously, but, wowBecause of Usury prohibition, there was no Banking. There was an economy based on the understanding that men share the common fate of having to wrest a living from the Earth, and that brotherly love, and not money grabbing, was the ... read more DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTSfrom 2021 in ( life / money / economy )Hacked pipeline still causing problems, but now the I-40 bridge over the Mississippi is closed, as well as the Mississippi itself. See zerohedge.com/markets/discovery-massive-bridge-crack-forces-us-coast-guard-close-portion-mississippi-riverCoast Guard close portion of Mississippi-River ... read more WHY HAVE LUMBER PRICES SKYROCKETED?from 2021 in ( education / research / conspiracies / economy )Here's a video showing huge quantities of lumber just stacked up and waiting. The current lumber shortage is apparently just another scam to artificially raise the price of wood (and further damage the economy). The first three minutes of the video are probably all you need to see: youtube.com/watch?... read more ANDREW TORBA: TIME TO BUILD OUR OWN ECONOMYfrom 2021 in ( life / money / economy )The oligarchs believe they have destroyed American Populism by rigging an election, removing the movement's leader from public view, and by forcing everyone to stay locked inside for a year while the country burns down around us all. They think they have won and want to define 'New Normal' under their rule as they con... read more WHO WANTED LOCKDOWNS?from 2021 in ( life / money / economy )This virus is not Ebola and it has come nowhere near approaching the death rates associated with H1N1 of 1918. By some measures, it's not been as deadly as 1957-58, a virus that came and went without much public attention at all. New pathogens are part of life, and there was and is nothing particularly unusual about this one.... read more COST OF LIVING COMPARISON (SACRAMENTO VS. LISBON)from 2019 in ( life / travel / economy )Cool international cost-of-living comparison site: expatistan.com/cost-of-livingexpatistan.com/cost-of-living . If you're thinking of moving from Sacramento, CA to Lisbon, Portugal, for example, go to: expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/sacrame... read more THINK TANK COMMUNITY DOING ITS BEST TO CONTROL THE WORLDfrom 2013 in ( education / research / conspiracies / economy )The corporate-policy network is highly centralized, at both the level of individuals and that of organizations. Its inner circle is a tightly interwoven ensemble of politically active business leaders; its organizational core includes the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Conference, the European Round Table of Industrialists an... read more THREE WAYS TO PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORKfrom 2013 in ( life / money / economy )opednews.com/articles/Three-Ways-to-Put-America-by-Chaz-Valenza-100905-980.htmlThree-Ways-to-Put-America In theory The Great Recession is history, but for those of us who live and work on Real Street the carnage and horror continues. On Real Street, outsid... read more SCREW ECONOMIES OF SCALEfrom 2013 in ( life / money / economy )As I've said before, this country needs a new (or maybe just an enforced) u-s-history.com/pages/h760.htmlSherman Antitrust Act that will limit the size, influence and control of any one corporation.Having more companies means more jobs and, most importantly, more competition. Even the elites (a... read more THE VIRTUAL RECOVERYfrom 2012 in ( life / money / economy )...the low 2011 real median household income is the summation, in most cases, of two household earners, whereas in 196768 one earner could produce the same real income. As Nobel economist Gary Becker, my former colleague and Business Week columnist, pointed out, when both husband and wife have to work in order to maintain the ... read more QUANTITATIVE EASING EXPLAINEDfrom 2012 in ( life / money / economy )The truth about quantitative easing. I just watched this again and laughed my a$$ off. Now with a ridiculous 5.2 million views on YouTube. : dailybail.com/home/absolute-genius-make-this-go-viral-quantitative-easing-expla.htmldailybail.com ... read more WALMART, 50 YEARS OF GUTTING AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASSfrom 2012 in ( life / money / economy / shopping )This (below) is why we hate Walmart. Its explosive growth has gutted two key pillars of the American middle class: small businesses and well-paid manufacturing jobs.Too many people just want low prices no matter the overall, long-run cost. Read, listen ... read more THE 1930S CHICAGO PLAN VS THE AMERICAN MONETARY ACTfrom 2012 in ( life / money / economy )If the purpose of money and credit were to discourage the exchange of goods and services, to destroy periodically the wealth produced, to frustrate and trip those who save, our present monetary system does that most effectively!... read more MADE IN AMERICA NO LONGERfrom 2011 in ( life / money / economy )American as apple pie items that are no longer made here: businessinsider.com/19-iconic-products-that-america-doesnt-make-anymore-2010-11?op119-iconic-products-that-america-doesnt-make-anymore Another American icon has bit the dust: Pontiac. GM is canceling the 84-year-o... read more QUOTE OF THE DAY (6/21/2010)from 2010 in ( culture / quotes / economy )Watching Titanic the part where the ship is sinking is like watching the U.S. economy, where the rich conspire to sink as many of the poor as they possibly can. -- (yes, I thought this one up myself!)... read more HOW TO ROB A BANKfrom 2010 in ( life / money / economy / banks )The answer is: Own one. William Black: The finance sector is a huge parasite, it transfers wealth from the poor to the wealthy. : youtube.com/watch?vISsR7ZiWlskReal News Network . y... read more |