Trends in low wage America: 1.4 million waiter/bartender jobs gained while 1.4 million manufacturing jobs lost since 2007. Top 4 employment sectors pay $10 an hour or less.
The media pundits are scratching their heads as to why two political outsiders are garnering all the attention. You want to know why? Both are addressing the low wage epidemic plaguing the country. Now we can debate their policies since both stand at the extreme opposite ends of the spectrum but their message is clear […]
The financial gouging of the American college student: Tuition is up 300 percent from 1990 and total outstanding student debt has grown by over 1 trillion dollars since 2000.
Inflation is such an insidious standard of living destroyer. Little by little those dollars in your wallet get worth less and you suddenly find yourself needing to go into large levels of debt to purchase cornerstones of the American Dream. Going to college has been the dream for many Americans after the G.I. Bill was […]
China lost the equivalent of 14 Greeces over the last month: Why the actions of banning short selling and punishing the market taken by the Chinese government will backfire.
The market has been fixated on the actions of Greece, a country with 11 million people or the equivalent of Los Angeles County. However, the bigger action is taking place in the gambling obsessed Chinese economy. For those of you not following global news the Chinese stock markets, primarily the Shanghai Composite, Shenzhen, and Hang […]
You are being lied to about inflation. Latest CPI figures show nearly no inflation over the past year. Yet housing, tuition, and healthcare costs continue to soar.
Inflation. Few people think about inflation but simply accept the reality that prices will go up. However prices going up has a deeper economic reason than simply momentum. Inflation is notorious at destroying your standard of living. Our current financial system is now setup in a way to punish savers. Most banks are offering near […]