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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

In order to understand how far we have fallen as a society, we need to take a look back at how Americans once lived.  Because the way that we live today would be unrecognizable to those that inhabited our cities in the middle of the last century.  We like to …

When you get big enough, it can be tempting to believe that you can treat those that you do not like any way that you want.  But if you treat people like garbage long enough, it is going to bite you in the rear end.  Executives at Facebook apparently thought …

That sure didn’t last long.  Over the past two years, the U.S. government borrowed and spent trillions of dollars that we did not have, and the Federal Reserve unwisely pumped trillions of fresh dollars into our financial system.  Of course all of that money was going to be a short-term …

A decline in morality has preceded the collapse of almost every great society throughout history.  Moral decay is often cited as one of the primary reasons for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the level of wickedness in ancient Greece reached a frightening crescendo before it finally fell, …

The United States and Russia are on a collision course.  Unfortunately, the guys running the show in both countries are not exactly sane, and they deeply, deeply distrust one another.  So what happens when a bunch of lunatics decide to play a game of chicken with the fate of the …

You may have noticed that our nation is crumbling.  In this case, I am not actually referring to the moral decay which is eating away at the foundations of our society like cancer.  In this article I am going to specifically focus on the physical infrastructure which is literally crumbling …

I am going to try to make as much noise about this crisis as I can, because we have never faced anything like this in modern times.  Global fertilizer prices have tripled, and we are being warned that this is going to have a catastrophic impact on food production all …

It is becoming clear that we are in far more trouble than we are being told.  In recent months, all forms of traditional energy have become significantly more expensive, and this is fueling price increases all over the planet.  This new global energy crisis is directly responsible for the astounding rise …

They just have to suffocate anything that smells like freedom, don’t they?  After alienating and persecuting so many other groups of Americans, now the Biden administration is coming after cryptocurrency owners.  Biden administration officials are promising to bring “coherency” to the industry, but just like everything else that they touch …

Will our own arrogance actually be our undoing?  When you peer up into the night sky and realize how small we truly are in comparison to the vastness of the universe, that should be a very humbling thing.  Unfortunately, humility is in very short supply in our day and time.  …