Wal-Mart gets approximately one-fourth of all the merchandise that it sells from China, and Wal-Mart’s CFO is warning that “higher tariffs will lead to higher prices for customers”. In other words, U.S. consumers will soon be feeling a…

Global economic activity has already been slowing down dramatically, and the U.S. trade war with China is just going to make things worse.  In so many ways, what we are witnessing in 2019 is quite reminiscent of what…

Ponzi schemes like social security will be even less solvent than ever should the birth rate in the United States continue to decline at such a rapid rate. As the population ages, there won’t be enough workers to…

This is flashing warning signs for the future of the United States dollar.

With the national debt spiraling quickly out of control, there are only a few years left before every single dollar the government borrows will go toward funding interest payments on the national debt.

The termination of that agreement will result in high tariffs being imposed on all tomatoes from Mexico, and researchers at Arizona State University say that we will soon be paying “40% to 85% more for vine-ripe and other…

We should all get prepared for an extended trade war, and this trade war is going to affect you and your family in a number of different ways.

We need trade with China to be fair and balanced, but are we willing to go through an extraordinary amount of economic pain to get to that end result? And once relations with China break down, will they…

This is a make or break moment for the Trump administration, and it is a make or break moment for the entire U.S. economy.

The Federal Reserve will continue to tell us that everything is just fine for as long as they possibly can.  Unfortunately for them, they can’t hide the depressingly bad numbers that are coming in from all over the…

There are all sorts of indications that the U.S. economy is really starting to slow down again.  One of those indications is the fact that the level of credit card charge-offs has risen to the highest level since 2012…

The debt-based system we live under won’t sustain itself forever. Don’t get us wrong, the sociopaths in government and at the Federal Reserve (central bankers) will prop it up for as long as possible, but it is doomed…

A number of the experts that I am hearing from expect job losses to escalate in the months ahead. Many of those that are currently living on the edge financially suddenly won’t be able to pay their mortgages…

The absolute fact is that e-commerce and online retail is only minimally to blame for these stores’ demise. Massive unpayable levels of debt and therefore, bankruptcy are taking a toll on these American retailers.

In many ways, 2019 is starting to look a lot like 1973. For many Americans, the 1970s represent a rather depressing chapter in U.S. history that they would just like to forget, but the truth is that if…

Expect the best, but prepare for the worst. The more options you have in your arsenal, the better.

It isn’t just the retail industry that is heading for an “apocalypse”. Our entire economy is built on a foundation of sand, and a giant storm is rapidly approaching our shores.