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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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When U.S. consumers are doing well, the U.S. economy does well.  But of course, the opposite is also true.  When U.S. consumers are not doing well, the U.S. economy really suffers.  The government has been trying really hard to put a happy face on things, but the truth is that …

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If the ground under your feet is moving “up to 10 inches a week”, that might be a sign that it is time to relocate.  What is currently taking place in Rancho Palos Verdes is perhaps the most extreme example of the geophysical instability that is plaguing much of the state …

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We are literally killing ourselves and everything around us, and most people don’t even know that this is happening.  But even if we could get everyone to understand the extinction-level threat that we are facing, would they change their behavior?  The plastic products that we are constantly discarding do not …

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It is incredibly sad to watch the U.S. economy slowly but surely come apart at the seams all around us.  For most of our history, the rest of the world marveled at our economic performance, and that is because we embraced economic values that led to great blessing.  In recent …

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How does it feel to live in one of the most crime-ridden nations on the entire planet?  Our major urban areas are absolutely teeming with predators, and millions upon millions of law-abiding citizens are literally afraid to leave their homes at night as a result.  Of course, at this point, …

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While the mainstream media focuses our attention on the upcoming election, the stage is being set for the unthinkable.  Chess pieces are in motion all over the planet, and global leaders continue to drag us in directions that we should not want to go.  If everyone truly understood where current …

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How many times have you heard the mainstream media tell you that the economy is doing just great in recent months?  Personally, I have seen the word “booming” used over and over again to describe the economy, and it makes me sick.  The level of gaslighting that we are witnessing …

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When we were young, most of us believed that we would achieve “the American Dream” someday.  Today, two-thirds of us believe that the American Dream is unattainable.  That is a searing indictment of a system that is coming apart at the seams right in front of our eyes.  As a …

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How can we trust someone who will literally say anything to get elected?  Voters have come to tolerate a certain level of inconsistency in our politicians, but Kamala Harris is taking things to an entirely new level that we have never seen before.  She is disavowing a whole host of …

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The Russians just told us again that the world could soon be facing nuclear war if Western powers don’t stop escalating the conflict in Ukraine, but this is yet another warning that has gone in one ear and out the other.  The Russians can talk about nuclear war until they …