Rail Volumes Fall For Third Straight Month In August | ZeroHedge

By Carolina Worrell of Railway Age

“August was the third straight month in which total year-over-year U.S. rail carloads have fallen,” Association of American Railroads (AAR) Senior Vice President John T. Gray reported on Sept. 6. Total combined U.S. traffic for the first 35 weeks of 2023 was 16,173,208 carloads and intermodal units, a decrease of 4.9% compared to last year.

Gray said that a major reason why is that “other than automotive manufacturing, the industrial (more…)

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The Art Of The Lose-Lose Deal | ZeroHedge

Authored by MN Gordon via Economic Prism,

Has there ever been a worse time to be a lowly American wage earner?

First, Washington spewed out $6 trillion in printing press money.  This pushed consumer price inflation to a 40 year high.  At the same time, it diluted wages from a standard lager to a pilsner light.

Now, at this very moment, the demand for higher wages through union organization is leading to the mass culling of payrolls.  The higher wages go.  The less (more…)

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Austrian Economics Vs. CBDC, ESG, UBI, And Other Newfangled Socioeconomic Gimmicks | ZeroHedge

Authored by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski via the Mises Institute,

The Austrian school – on account of the logical, deductive character of its theories and their realistic applicability to the actual economy – is the only economic tradition that consciously aspires to the discovery of timeless, universally relevant truths that govern the realm of human action. Thus, it should come as no surprise that its analytical apparatus is naturally suitable for the evaluation of all the recent (more…)

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