The Lockdowns Are Starving the Poor
Hundreds of millions of people around the world are seeing everything they have ever worked for in life, all their hopes and dreams, destroyed as the state ordered lockdowns drive them and their families into unrelenting poverty, starvation, and death. This has little to do with Covid-19 and everything to do with our response to it and if we don’t want to cause the deaths of millions of people the way we are handling this sickness must change, immediately.
American Unemployment Increases to 33 Million. What’s Next?
The horrifying trend towards economic collapse caused by state mandated lockdowns continues and the very real threat of mass starvation looms ever closer, and not just for the poorest countries in the world. With estimates suggesting unemployment may rise as high as 34.6% in April we are looking at crippling rates of unemployment never seen before in American, perhaps even world, history. This is worse than the Great Depression, when unemployment rates topped out at 24.6%. The question is where do we go from here?
Covid-19 and the Global Economy
The world economy is collapsing as I write this article. This is not in dispute. The question is, “Why is the economy collapsing?”