Economic Collapse Report

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the nation's economy stands as a testament to the unmatched power of freedom, innovation, and individual enterprise. While critics at home and abroad endlessly predict American decline, the facts tell a different story—one of persistent leadership and dynamism rooted in the principles of 1776. Joseph P. Quinlan of Merrill and Bank of America Privat...

The way things are headed in America, it's easy to assume that it's not horrible. Yes, we have inflation but things seem to be stabilizing. But if we look to Europe, we're seeing a far greater challenge than just inflation. They're imploding economically, politically, and culturally.

We often think of government-allowed fraud and government-mandated DEI as two very separate things. One deals with direct theft of money while the other deals with theft of status. But in reality they both deal with theft based on government programs that take from the haves and give to the other haves. That's not good.

Now that the war in Iran appears to be over, it's time for President Trump and the Republicans to do everything they can to make America more affordable. Meanwhile, CNN doesn't want Elon Musk to be a billionaire. They really need to just leave him alone.

When the bond market opens each morning in lower Manhattan, no one ringing the bell is thinking about the seventh-century Arabian peninsula. Yet a small army of clerics, lobbyists, and shariah advisory boards has spent the better part of two decades quietly bending portions of America’s financial machinery to conform to Islamic religious law — and they are succeeding with the active cooperation of...

A fresh survey reveals a staggering imbalance in the housing market: 630,000 more sellers than buyers, the widest gap in American history. At the same time, the average age of a first-time homebuyer has climbed toward 40.Read More: https://economiccollapse.report/astounding-home-ownership-facts-show-marriage-is-more-than-a-lifestyle-choice/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califo...

Zohran Mamdani’s face told the story before his words did. Standing beside City Council Speaker Julie Menin in the City Hall rotunda on Tuesday, New York City’s democratic socialist mayor announced what amounts to a confession dressed up as a policy proposal. The city he was elected to run is in a “budget crisis of historic magnitude,” he said, and the only acceptable solution involves someone els...

There is something deeply revealing about the way the left has chosen to use artificial intelligence. It has embraced the technology with great enthusiasm for surveilling political dissidents, flagging "misinformation" that contradicts official narratives, scoring social compliance, and automating ideological enforcement across digital platforms. What it has treated with considerably more skeptici...

A new fault line is running through American life, and it has nothing to do with the usual categories of race, class, or political affiliation — though it is beginning to absorb all of them. It is the divide between those who believe artificial intelligence is the most transformative tool since the printing press and those who think the whole enterprise is somewhere between overblown and genuinely...

BlackRock upgraded U.S. equities to "overweight" on April 13th, citing strong corporate earnings and what it considers limited lasting damage to global economic growth from the Iran conflict. The U.S.-Israel war against Iran began February 28th with airstrikes that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of the world's o...

The core argument: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's 2025 shareholder letter isn't just a business update — it's a meditation on institutional courage, specifically the courage to tear down something that works rather than patch new technology onto old systems. The AI bet: Amazon is committing ~$200 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, primarily for AI infrastructure. Free cash flow dropped from $38B to...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood before cameras at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Monday and unveiled what his administration calls the city's first-ever "Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan" — a sweeping, 45-agency framework built on the explicit premise that city government must view every policy decision, every spending allocation, and every programmatic goal through the lens o...

Democrat politicians, especially in far-left cities like Seattle, view people as members of three different groups. There are the ATMs, the combination of mega-donors and wealthy residents who can supply Democrat politicians with campaign funds, tax dollars for leftist policies, or both. Then, there are the enemies, middle class voters who lean right, who are being increasingly targeted for remova...

For generations, the conventional wisdom went something like this: serious money lives in New York. The serious decisions about who gets capital, who gets to list on an exchange, who gets to participate in the grand machinery of American finance — all of it emanated from a few square miles of lower Manhattan, governed by institutions so entrenched they seemed geological. Wall Street wasn’t just an...

David Sacks has officially ended his 130-day tenure as President Trump's AI and crypto czar, a limit imposed by federal law on special government employees, and is transitioning to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).The White House confirmed it will not appoint a replacement AI czar, and Sacks will continue advising President Trump on artificial intellig...

Most Gold IRA companies operate on a model built around massive markups on numismatic coins, delivering enormous profits to dealers while leaving customers with overpriced assets that rarely hold or grow in real value. Tucker Carlson’s recent exposé, “The Great Gold Scam,” pulled back the curtain on an industry that has preyed on trusting Americans for decades. Carlson himself launched a precious-...

An explosion and large plumes of smoke at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur prompted officials to order west-side residents to shelter in place according to 12 News Now. A fire broke out at a diesel hydrotreater, with the unit suffering severe damage, according to people familiar with the incident. The fire was near the plant’s fluid catalytic cracker, and part of the refinery has been shut down,...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul delivered a stark admission this week: the state's tax base is eroding as high-net-worth residents continue to depart for lower-tax destinations, leaving behind a funding gap for the expansive social programs that define the Empire State's approach to governance. Speaking at Politico's New York Agenda: Albany Summit, Hochul openly pleaded for wealthy individuals—many...

For decades, the world's most consequential waterway has sat beneath the shadow of a hostile regime. The Strait of Hormuz — a sliver of water just 21 nautical miles wide at its narrowest point — serves as the jugular vein of the global economy. Approximately a fifth of the world's oil passes through it, carried by roughly 3,000 ships each month. And for decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has he...

The executive order directs the Secretary of Energy to facilitate resumption at Sable Offshore's facilities, potentially unlocking up to 50,000 barrels of daily production. It addresses vulnerabilities where California and U.S. military forces rely heavily on foreign oil due to local restrictions. The action follows a Justice Department opinion affirming presidential power to preempt state laws im...

Rising oil prices linked to Middle East tensions are increasing the cost of fuel, fertilizer, and transportation for American farmers. Fertilizer prices remain volatile because natural gas is a key input, tying agriculture directly to energy markets. Farm debt has climbed to record levels, putting many producers in a vulnerable financial position if commodity prices fall. Small and mid-size farms...

With all that's happening in America and across the globe today, there remains one overarching economic perspective that prevails. Interest rates impact everything and interest rates are impacted by everything, at least to some extent. Ira Bershatsky from https://advisorbullion.com joined us again today to discuss what's happening, warning of stagflation, and pointing to caution in the days, weeks...

What Gold Numbers Are Telling Us That the Fed Won’t - https://economiccollapse.report/what-gold-numbers-are-telling-us-that-the-fed-wont/ Iran Closes the Strait of Hormuz — and the World’s Energy Markets Are Holding Their Breath - https://economiccollapse.report/iran-closes-the-strait-of-hormuz-and-the-worlds-energy-markets-are-holding-their-breath/ This is a public episode. If you would like to d...

Warner Bros. Discovery's board declared Paramount Skydance's revised $31-per-share all-cash bid a "superior proposal" over Netflix's existing merger agreement, triggering a match window that Netflix ultimately declined. Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters stated the deal was "no longer financially attractive" at the price required to match Paramount Skydance's offer, effectively ending a...

Financial expert Ira Bershatsky from AdvisonBullion.com joined JD to talk about the tariff ruling from the Supreme Court as well as other factors that are going to impact the economy going forward. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit economiccollapse.substack.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an...