This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  For most people, the price of gasoline is the most obvious consequence of the war in the Middle East. As I write this article, the average price of a gallon of gasoline...

Ah, the quietude (yes, it’s a word) of a holiday weekend.  American markets are closed. And on the pending/predictive/mythic timeline, no U.S. ship has been blown-up yet, Pandemic 2 is still percolating, and that Baltic region power outage isn’t here yet.It will – in...