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Category Archives: Financial Crisis
Poor Folks
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well A guy on Facebook I don’t know wrote a version of what has become a kind of set-piece article in today’s America. Here’s a portion: Losing The War of Attrition or How … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged America, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty, society
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GIVE AMERICA’S ‘HELICOPTER PARENTS’ A BREAK
Hovering parents don’t need lectures. They need a more equal nation. By Sam Pizzigati Source: OtherWords A good many of us aging baby boomers are having trouble relating to the “helicopter parents” of our modern age — those moms and pops … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged culture, economic inequality, Economics, Families, financial crisis, Income Disparity, Parenting, Social Stratification, society, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Gap
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Survival of the Richest
All Are Equal, Except Those Who Aren’t By Nomi Prins Source: TomDispatch.com Like a gilded coating that makes the dullest things glitter, today’s thin veneer of political populism covers a grotesque underbelly of growing inequality that’s hiding in plain sight. And … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged central banks, Collusion, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economic Meltdown, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, George Orwell, Income, income gap, J.P. Morgan, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Wealth
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Saker interview with Michael Hudson on Venezuela, February 7, 2019
By The Saker and Michael Hudson Source: The Saker Introduction: There is a great deal of controversy about the true shape of the Venezuelan economy and whether Hugo Chavez’ and Nicholas Maduro’s reform and policies were crucial for the people of … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, culture, Economics, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, news, State Crime
Tagged Big Oil, china, Citgo, Debt, Economics, empire, EU, geopolitics, Gold, Hugo Chavez, IMF, imperialism, Iran, Latin America, Michael Hudson, NATO, Neoliberalism, Nicolas Maduro, Russia, U.S. oil industry, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, World Bank
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The Erosion of the Middle Class — Why Americans Are Working Harder and Earning Less
By John Liberty Source: The Mind Unleashed “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged American Dream, Corporations, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, healthcare, Income Disparity, Labor, Middle Class, Minimum Wage, Poverty, Power, recession, Wage Stagnation, Wages, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Gap, Welfare
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The Five Stages of Collapse, 2019 Update
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Collapse, at each stage, is a historical process that takes time to run its course as the system adapts to changing circumstances, compensates for its weaknesses and finds ways to continue functioning at some … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Collapse, Commercial Collapse, Cultural Collapse, culture, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Free Market, Political collapse, Social Collapse, society, US Dollar
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Prices, plutocrats, and corporate concentration
Would less corporate concentration – and a weaker corporate capacity to raise prices – mean less inequality? By Sam Pizzigati Source: Nation of Change Andrew Leigh, a member of the Australian parliament, has a side gig. He just happens to … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Law, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Andrew Leigh, antitrust, Cartels, Corporate Concentration, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Monopolies, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Pay Ratio, Plutocracy, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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