The Worst Time Of The Year?
For a lot of Americans, this is the worst time of the year. If you don't have any money, it can be really hard to hear others go on and on about how good "Santa Claus" was to them this year. For...
View ArticleThe Sobering Reality Of What Life Is Like In Reno, Nevada
What do you do when the city where you live is dying? All over the United States formerly great cities are crumbling, but some are definitely in worse shape than others. One reader recently wrote to...
View Article22 Stats That Prove That There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Young Men In...
When are we finally going to admit that we have a very serious problem with this generation of young men in America? We have failed them so dramatically that it is hard to put it into words. We have...
View ArticleNational Economic Suicide: The U.S. Trade Deficit With China Just Hit A New...
Did you know that we buy nearly five times as much stuff from the Chinese as they buy from us? According to government numbers that were just released, we imported 44.9 billion dollars worth of stuff...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Now Calling For A ‘Revolution In The Streets’, And I Believe...
The surprise victory by Donald Trump on November 8th has spawned a series of violent protests and riots all over the nation as stunned leftists continue to throw the largest post-election temper...
View ArticleWhen Americans Shall Say ‘Peace And Safety’…
Millions of Americans are expecting a new “golden age” for America under Donald Trump, but is that what they are going to get? There is always optimism when a new president is elected, but I don’t...
View ArticleThe United States Has Become A Nation Of Sheeple
You can either follow the herd of you can decide to find your own path. One of the things that greatly frustrates me is that so many Americans allow other people to do their thinking for them. We...
View ArticleWhen They Shall Say “Peace And Safety”: Polls Show Americans Are The Most...
By a very wide margin, this is the most optimistic that Americans have been about the future since I started The Economic Collapse Blog in late 2009. Even though the middle class is shrinking, 102...
View ArticleThe Big Secret The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want To Tell You About America’s...
This week two celebrity suicides rocked the nation, and neither of them seemed to make any sense. Kate Spade’s handbag designs had taken the fashion world by storm, and she was supposedly living the...
View ArticleAs The Wealthy Flock To The Major Cities On Both Coasts, Poverty And Suicide...
America is increasingly becoming a divided nation. Those with money are flocking to the major cities on both coasts, while many of those that don’t are fleeing to rural areas. As a result, economic...
View ArticleThe American Dream Is Getting Smaller, And The Reason Why Is Painfully Obvious…
Over the past decade, an unprecedented stock market boom has created thousands upon thousands of new millionaires, and yet the middle class in America has continued to shrink. How is that even...
View ArticleAmerica Is Committing Suicide: Over The Past 12 Months, The U.S. National...
If we do not change course, our once great nation will be destroyed by a debt that has grown wildly out of control. We are facing an unprecedented debt crisis that literally threatens to bring our...
View ArticleMiddle Class Erosion: 33 Million Americans Will Not Travel During The...
We have repeatedly been told that the U.S. economy is “booming”, but meanwhile the middle class in the United States continues to be hollowed out. The financial bubbles that the Federal Reserve has...
View ArticleIf America Is Such A Happy Place, Why Is The Suicide Rate Up 34% Since The...
What in the world has happened to us? Despite our ridiculously high standard of living compared to the rest of the world, America is a deeply unhappy place. When I was growing up, there were no...
View Article$3.5 Trillion A Year: America’s Health Care System Has Become One Of The...
If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would have the fifth largest GDP on the entire planet. At this point only the United States, China, Japan and Germany have a GDP that is larger than...
View ArticleAmericans Had To Borrow 88 BILLION Dollars To Cover Their Medical Bills Last...
I know that the headline sounds outrageous, but it is actually true. According to a brand new report that was just released, Americans had to borrow 88 billion dollars to cover their medical bills...
View Article‘Deaths Of Despair’ In The U.S. Hit Record High – So How Bad Will Things Get...
According to a shocking new report from the Commonwealth Fund, the suicide rate in the United States is the highest that it has ever been before. Sadly, the same thing can be said about the death...
View ArticleThe Suicide Rate In The U.S. Has Hit The Highest Level In 50 Years, And There...
Despite the fact that more money is being spent on suicide prevention efforts than ever before in our history, the suicide rate in the United States continues to rise dramatically. As you will see...
View ArticleAmerica’s Financial Suicide: The Budget Deficit Rises 26% In 1 Year As...
We are in the process of committing national financial suicide, and most Americans don’t seem to care. As you will see below, the federal budget deficit for the fiscal year that ended on September...
View ArticleFor Millions Of Americans In The Middle Of The Country, It Feels Like An...
What do you do when you have lost all hope that things will ever turn around? It may still feel like “the economy is booming” for those at the top end of the economic food chain in big coastal cities...
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