(Natural News) For decades, mostly Democrat-run states have won favor — and votes — among key political constituencies by padding their pensions. But as the tax base in many of these states dried up as people fled high levies and high prices — Illinois, New Jersey, and Connecticut come to mind — elected leaders were […]

(Natural News) We’ve been carefully monitoring the fiscal health of several states with mounting pension fund debt for several years because a couple of them have been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. One of them was California, but thanks to the omnipresence of successful tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, the state’s Democrats who created […]

(Natural News) One thing the Democrat Left has always been good at is spending other people’s money. Whether it’s Democrat lawmakers spending trillions of dollars our country doesn’t have or their allies in the Left-wing labor union sector forcing companies to expend money in worker benefits beyond what is reasonable, there never seems to be […]

(Natural News) Despite a bull market that’s been running strong for more than 10 years now, public pensions are in very serious trouble, as many states struggle to bring in anything even remotely close to the amount of cash needed to cover their ever-growing pension liabilities. While public pensions in many areas of the country […]

(Natural News) The past decade was a uniquely smooth stretch of financial highway. Pretty much every major asset class – stocks, bonds, real estate, fine art, you name it – did well, making it hard for conventional investors to lose money and easy for them to earn outsized returns. (Article by John Rubino republished from […]

(Natural News) As the price of Bitcoin continues to hover substantially below $4,000 per coin, after reaching earlier all-time highs of around $20,000 per coin, venture capitalists appear to now be swooping in for the kill as they launch brand new crypto schemes using people’s pension funds as financial backing. According to reports, a previously […]

(Natural News) Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has just announced his plans to form a task force for instituting city-wide universal basic income. The program would see the city paying a number of Chicago families hundreds of dollars every month, with no strings attached. What could go wrong, in a city already so plagued by debt […]

(Natural News) Until recently, the average American life expectancy has gone up. However, it now appears that the toxic lifestyle embraced by much of the country is finally catching up with people, and those life expectancy gains have come to screeching halt. This might be bad news for individuals and their loved ones, but corporations […]

(Natural News) The so-called “mainstream media” – which claims to be the first and last voice in all societal trends – is just now catching up to an issue that Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, noticed (and has been following) for months now, and that is this: Pension funds across the country […]

(Natural News) Over the years, Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has been spot-on when it comes to predicting major political events, social trends, financial shifts and other yet-to-happen occurrences. He did so again just recently when, in an April podcast, he predicted big changes to the pension system for the City of […]