economy

Debating Our Future: If You Want To Change America, Change Yourself.

Debating Our Future: If You Want To Change America, Change Yourself.

Follow @unitedstill *issues warning: this article doesn’t contain any nifty statistics or emotional manipulation and attempts to communicate with the American public by using common sense grounded in logical reasoning. Watching the first six months of the 2016 political election & debates unfold has been, among many other painful things… heartbreaking. As Americans, everyday we’re […]

Short Animation Explains Military Industrial Complex In 2 Minutes

Short Animation Explains Military Industrial Complex In 2 Minutes

VIA The Mind Unleashed by Sophie McAdam, TrueActivist.com This excellent short film from activist Wesley PP Hall does a fantastic job of simplifying concepts that our leaders and mainstream media would prefer us to dismiss as confusing or complex. The voiceover is provided by John Perkins, who wrote the book ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’, a shocking expose of international corruption. The […]

Here Is How Restaurants Are Quietly Ripping Off The Consumer

Here Is How Restaurants Are Quietly Ripping Off The Consumer

VIA ATTN by Alex Mierjeski Nearly half of all full-service restaurant workers are enrolled in public support programs out of necessity, and American taxpayers are forced to pick up the slack––an estimated $9.4 billion each year, according to a new report. In their report, The Public Cost of Low Wages in the Full-Service Restaurant Industry, researchers […]

How Iceland Beat The Banks

How Iceland Beat The Banks

VIA “wakingtimes.com” by Waking Times Staff Writer Alex Pietrowski The tiny Nordic European island country of Iceland is presently experiencing one of the greatest economic comebacks of all time. After the privatization of the banking sector completed in 200o, the economy was thrown into a tailspin when over a five year period, private bankers borrowed […]

Humiliated Greece Eyes Byzantine Pivot As Crises Deepens

Humiliated Greece Eyes Byzantine Pivot As Crises Deepens

VIA “telegraph.co.uk” by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in Athens Greece’s new currency designs are ready. The green 50 drachma note features Cornelius Castoriadis, the Marxisant philosopher and sworn enemy of privatisation. The Nobel poet Odysseus Elytis – voice of Eastward-looking Hellenism – honours the 200 note. The bills rise to 10,000 drachma, a wise precaution lest there […]

In Ukraine, It’s Putin’s Game

In Ukraine, It’s Putin’s Game

VIA “nytimes.com” by Andrew Higgins BRUSSELS — His country’s oil export revenues and currency have slumped. Its economy is shrinking, and some of his own allies in Moscow have questioned where he is leading them. Yet when President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sat down Wednesday in the Belarussian capital of Minsk with the leaders […]

The Most Common Job In Every State

The Most Common Job In Every State

VIA “npr.org” by Quoctrung Bui *We used data from the Census Bureau, which has two catch-all categories: “managers not elsewhere classified” and “salespersons not elsewhere classified.” Because those categories are broad and vague to the point of meaninglessness, we excluded them from our map. 1978 1996 2014 Alabama Ala. Machine operators, n.e.c Truck, delivery, and […]

Domestic Economic Reporting’s for 2/2/15-2/8/15

Domestic Economic Reporting’s for 2/2/15-2/8/15

Domestic Economic Indicators 2/2/15-2/6/15 Monday 2/2 Personal Income and Personal Spending  Personal Spending fell 0.3% which miss expectations of a 0.2% decline  Personal Income rose 0.3% which was better than expected  For the full year personal income is up 2.5% which is the biggest increase since 2006 PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditure)  […]

The World Cup’s role in the emergence of Brazil’s economy

The World Cup’s role in the emergence of Brazil’s economy

  In a few short months one of  biggest shows on earth will be touring the country of Brazil. The FIFA world cup will take place in 12 hot cities within the country and looked at with a proper lense, this has the potential to be the fuel that the country needs to gain momentum and compete with other […]