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Michael Snyder

Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Florida law school and he worked as an attorney in the heart of Washington D.C. for a number of years. Today, Michael is best known for his work as the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog. Michael and his wife, Meranda, believe that a great awakening is coming and are working hard to help bring renewal to America. Michael is also the author of the book The Beginning Of The End

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What in the world is going to happen if global food supplies continue to get even tighter?  During the second half of this year, global food prices have been surging.  A “perfect storm” of factors is suppressing production all over the planet, and meanwhile, worldwide demand for food just keeps …

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Have you noticed that the U.S. has been getting monkey-hammered by one natural disaster after another this year?  In fact, we have reached a point where some sort of a natural disaster is making news literally almost every single day.  This week, there have already been several natural disasters that …

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Enormous “mystery drones” are buzzing rooftops and flying freely through the skies in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, and our government is powerless to stop it.  As I discussed yesterday, these drones have been spotted over military facilities, water reservoirs, transportation hubs, police departments and other sensitive installations.  But even …

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While radical Sunni militants were conquering Damascus, Israel was conducting an absolutely massive bombing campaign inside Syria that is unlike anything we have seen before.  The IDF is telling us that more than 350 targets were hit.  Basically, the goal was to destroy as much military hardware as possible so that …

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Why have groups of large, unidentified “mystery drones” been flying over New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania at night?  Some of the “mystery drones” are the size of a car, but government officials seem to have no idea what they are or where they came from.  Since this has been …

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Have things been getting better for the middle class, or have things been getting worse?  Needless to say, the answer to that question is obvious.  The cost of living is absolutely crushing us, we can’t afford to replace our rapidly aging vehicles, debt levels are exploding, and the proportion of …

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Well, that certainly escalated quickly.  Just a few days ago, I wrote about how Syrian rebels had taken Aleppo and were on the way to the central city of Hama.  Now Damascus has fallen, the Assad regime has been toppled, and it is a new day for Syria.  But will it …

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Are you ready for economic conditions to get even worse in 2025?  It would be difficult to find any economist who is willing to argue that global economic conditions are better in late 2024 than they were in late 2023.  The Chinese economy is deeply struggling, Europe is a mess, …

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The West Coast just got a major league wake up call.  There has been an unusual number of sizable earthquakes along the California coast in 2024, and on Thursday we witnessed the largest one so far.  A magnitude 7.0 earthquake stuck about 40 miles offshore, and authorities issued a tsunami …

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Are we supposed to be shocked that someone was just gunned down on the streets of New York City?  The truth is that this happens all the time.  Violence is out of control in the Big Apple, and of course, the exact same thing could be said about most of …