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Category Archives: elites
Amazon and Apple: Wall Street’s Trillion Dollar Babies
By Dean Baker Source: CounterPunch Last month Amazon joined Apple, becoming the second company in the world to have a $1 trillion market capitalization. Amazon’s accomplishment didn’t cause quite as much celebration as Apple’s – it pays to be number … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, Oligarchy, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, big data, capitalism, corporatocracy, Economics, financial crisis, Financialization, Jonas Salk, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Polio, Silicon Valley, Smoking, Stock Market, Tax Evasion, wall street
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Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill for Sky-High CEO Salaries
Billions in taxpayer funds go to CEOs who pay their workers peanuts. We can change that. By Sam Pizzigati Source: Other Words Politicians often gab about the “private sector” and the “public sector,” as if these two categories of economic … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged CEO Pay, Corporate Welfare, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Government Contractors, Income Disparity, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Portland, Wealth Gap
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For Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Readers ask me how they can learn economics, what books to read, what university economics departments to trust. I receive so many requests that it is impossible to reply individually. Here is my answer. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Classical Economics, Debt, Economic Rent, Economics, elites, environment, External Costs, financial crisis, Financialization, J Is for Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, privatization, Supply-side Economics, Taxes, unemployment
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Why do corporate boards so overpay US CEOs?
By Sam Pizzigati Source: Nation of Change Back in 1999, near the dizzying height of the dot-com boom, no executive in Corporate America personified the soaring pay packages of America’s CEOs more than Jack Welch, the chief exec at General … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, society
Tagged 1%, CEO Pay, Corporate CEOs, Corporate Elites, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economic Policy Institute, Economics, Executive Paychecks, financial crisis, Free Market, General Electric, Income Disparity, Jack Welch, MBAs, Rigged Game, Wealth Gap
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America’s Debt Dependence Makes It An Easy Economic Target
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com There is a classic denial tactic that many people use when confronted with negative facts about a subject they have a personal attachment to; I would call it “deferral denial” — or a psychological postponing of … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged central banks, Consumer Debt, Corporate Debt, Debt, Debt Monetization, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, foreign investment, International Banks, Mortgage Backed Securities, Trade War, U.S. Debt, U.S. Dollar, US Economy
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American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths
By Lee Camp Source: TruthDig Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right? No society should function with this level of inequality (with the possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars” movie). Sixty-three … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Economics, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Law, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged american myths, Big Banks, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Consumerism, corporate media, Democracy, economic inequality, Electoral System, elites, independent judiciary, Jobs, judiciary, Labor, Lee Camp, media, Oligarchy, police, police state, us democracy, Work
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Exposing the Giants: The Global Power Elite
By Robert J. Burrowes Developing the tradition charted by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic The Power Elite, in his latest book, Professor Peter Phillips starts by reviewing the transition from the nation state power elites described by authors … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, media, Militarization, military spending, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Bank for International Settlements, Bilderberg Group, BlackRock, CFR, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Economics, G20, G30, G7, geopolitics, Global Elites, Group of 30, IMF, imperialism, International Capital, International Monetary Conference, International Monetary Fund, J.P Morgan Chase, Management Firms, NATO, NGOs, Oligarchy, peter phillips, Plutocracy, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Power Elite, Trilateral Commission, US Foreign Policy, war, WEF, World Bank, World Economic Forum, World Trade Organization, WTO
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Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
By Kurt Cobb Source: Resilience Professor and author Douglas Rushkoff recently wrote about a group of wealthy individuals who paid him to answer questions about how to manage their lives after what they believe will be the collapse of society. … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Philosophy, society, Sociology
Tagged 1%, Collapse, Community, culture, Douglas Rushkoff, Dystopia, economic inequality, elites, Philosophy, Relationships, Security, Societal Collapse, society, Wealth
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