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Most people have probably heard about China’s social credit system, which assigns each Chinese citizen a social credit “score.” Behavior that the government likes increases your score, while behavior the …

By now most people realize that the world economy is in decline. Europe is falling into recession, the US is headed there, and country after country is seeing economic slowdown …

The cost of higher education has gotten ever more expensive in recent years, and students have had to go ever deeper into debt in order to afford a college degree …

While many Americans may look down on South America and think of it as the land from which most of our immigrants come, that’s not reality. For one thing, most …

One of the great things about the US in years gone by was the size and wealth of its middle class. Unlike many other nations that had rich elites and …

While everyone knows that inflation makes the cost of living more expensive by the year, the extent to which inflation affects American households is less obvious to most people. A …

It seems as though there is no limit as to what Democrats will spend taxpayer money on. As if it weren’t bad enough already that the federal government is $23 …

More and more is being written today about how millennials are different from the generations before them. But while much of the focus is on millennials’ different spending patterns, work …

With new automobiles becoming ever more expensive, more and more Americans have to finance their automotive purchases with auto loans. And with salaries largely stagnant over the past 20 years, …

If it seems like the rich are getting richer and the not-so-rich are still, well, not so rich, there’s a reason for that. Incomes for the 1% have exploded over …