The United States is a deeply unhappy place. We are a nation that is absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression. It isn’t just our economy that is falling apart – the very fabric of society is starting to come apart at the seams and it is because of what is happening to us [...]
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America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, Obesity, Anti-Depressants, Etc.
Tagged with: America, Anger, Anti-Depressants, Anxiety, Decline, Depression, Divorce, Evidence, Facts, Fear, Miserable, Obesity, Our Economy, Pain, Societal Collapse, Statistics, Stress, United States
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Happy New Year Middle Class: The Fiscal Cliff Is Going To Rip You To Shreds
The middle class has quite a gift welcoming them as the calendar flips over to 2013. Their payroll taxes are going to go up, their income taxes are going to go up, and approximately 28 million households are going to be hit with a huge, unexpected AMT tax bill on their 2012 earnings. So happy [...]
Tagged with: AMT Tax, Decline, Fiscal Cliff, Gift, Income Taxes, Middle Class, Paychecks, Payroll Taxes, Tax, Tax Bill, Tax Bills, Tax Hikes, Tax Increases, Taxes, Taxpayers
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We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business In America
Historically, small businesses have been the primary engine of new job creation in the United States. If the economy was getting healthy, we would expect to see the number of jobs at new businesses rise. Instead, we are witnessing just the opposite. We are told that the economy is supposed to be “recovering”, but the [...]
Tagged with: Bad News, Business Owners, Businesses, Death, Decline, Economist, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Healthy, Job Creation, Jobs, New Businesses, Opportunity, Recovering, Slow Death, Small Business, Small Businesses, Startup, The Economy, Unemployment
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Wake Up! 11 Facts That Show That Europe Is Heading Into An Economic Depression
Europe is not just heading into another recession. The truth is that Europe is heading into a full-blown depression. The economy of the EU is actually larger than the U.S. economy, and we are watching it melt down right in front of our eyes. Things just continue to get worse in Europe, and yet somehow [...]
Tagged with: Banking, Collapsing, Debt, Decline, Depression, Economic Depression, Europe, European Financial System, Financial, Own Debt, Pain, Recession, The 1930s, The Economy, The Great Depression
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34 Signs That America Is In Decline
The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline. Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me. I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love. Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our Founding [...]
Tagged with: Addicted, America, Cancer, Collapsing, Commentary, Day Of Reckoning, Decline, Economic Decline, Founding Fathers, Love, Moral, Political, Prosperity, Spiritual, Spiritual Decline, Stage 4 Cancer, United States
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95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recession Were Middle Class Jobs
Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy? Is it the wealthy? No, the stock market has been soaring lately and their incomes are actually going up. Is it the poor? Well, the poor are definitely hurting very badly, but when you don’t have much to begin with you don’t [...]
Tagged with: Cost Of Living, Decline, Economic Downturn, Executives, Incomes, Middle Class Jobs, Middle Income Jobs, Recession, The Middle Class, The Stock Market, The U.S. Economy, The Wealthy, Unemployment
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- Energy – Balancing the Bonanza: Interview with Mark Thoma
- New Wyoming Lithium Deposit Could Meet all U.S. Demand
- Fractured US Intelligence Rules out Greater Cooperation with Russia
- UK Ministry of Defense Deems Wind Towers a National Security Threat
- Oil Explorers Beware: Hackers Are Eyeing What You Know
- Ahmadinejad and the Resurrection of Hugo Chavez
- Why Do They Hate Us Again? Oh, Right. Now I Remember.
- Peak Oil Is Almost Here and There’s No Magic To Counter It: Interview with Dave Summers
- Russia is Back to Stay in the Middle East
- Choosing the Right Oil Company to Own in 2013
- They Call This Higher Education?
- The Royal Society Gets Radical
- Recent Press Releases
- The Playing Field Isn’t Remotely Level
- WWF Gets Into Bed with Oppressive Dictatorship
- Two Quotes from Mark Jaccard: 2013 vs 2011
- Speakers’ Bureau Still Says Jaccard is a Nobel Laureate
- The Drama Queen Files – Exhibit #6
- The Way Nature Intended
- The Scare Story of 1881
37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Obama Have Wrecked The U.S. Economy
The mainstream media covered the inauguration of Barack Obama with breathless anticipation on Monday, but should we really be celebrating another four years of Obama? The truth is that the first four years of Obama were an absolute train wreck for the U.S. economy. Over the past four years, the percentage of working age Americans [...]
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