Poverty among those 65 years old and up

Poverty among those 65 years old and up

Excluding Social Security benefits from income, the poverty rate for Americans 65 years old and up is 52.6% roughly 23.4 million people.

The official poverty threshold for a two-adult-two-child family was $23,624 in 2013, $11,670 for a family unit of 1 and $15,730 for a family unit of 2.

What to do when nobody knows anything.

What to do when nobody knows anything.

When the world’s finance ministers, central bankers and international financial organizations do not know anything what you have to do is remember why they have run out of ideas and why their key idea (demand and artificial economic growth) was totally wrong.

Regulations and entrepreneurship

Regulations and entrepreneurship

A strong state  is going to enforce regulations and entrepreneurship will be squelched by these regulations.

Regulated companies become cartels or regulated monopolies that engage in financial transactions with unregulated companies which in turn also become regulated.

Governments create laws knowing  that the winner is also the monopoly and governments like to pick up the winner.

What is the best weapon in modern times?

What is the best weapon in modern times?

Marketing

Marketing that doesn't repeat the same message .
Marketing that designs each video and each message to correlate exactly to the target audience.
Marketing that is an intellectual desert.

Why you don't do what everybody is telling to do?

Why you don't do what everybody is telling to do?

Because the side effects of what  everybody is telling to do have collateral damage in your brain.

Why unemployment appears on the rise across the South

Why unemployment appears on the rise across the South while  other data—unemployment filings, home purchases, corporate hiring—suggest a sudden souring of the region’s economy?


Because the United States Department of Labor manipulates numbers before the elections.

What is the average hourly earning for an American?

What is the average hourly earning for an American?

$24.53.

Average earnings have risen  2% in the last 12 months.