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Category Archives: Recession
Saturday Matinee: American Nomads
Synopsis from Top Documentary Films Beneath the America we think we know lies a nation hidden from view – a nomadic nation, living on the roads, the rails and in the wild open spaces. In its deserts, forests, mountain ranges … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Financial Crisis, Recession, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged American Nomads, American Society, Documentary Film, Hobos, Homelessness, Nomads, Precariat, Richard Grant, Transients
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The U.S. Economy In Two Words: Asymmetric Gains
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The Status Quo is in trouble if the bottom 95% wake up to the asymmetric gains that are the only possible output of our hyper-financialized economy. The core dynamic of the U.S. … Continue reading
USA in a Debt Trap Death Spiral
By F. William Engdahl Source: New Eastern Outlook The US economy and its financial structures have never recovered from the great financial meltdown of 2008 despite the passage of ten years. Little discussion has been given to the fact that … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Recession, Social Control, society
Tagged Bretton Woods, central banks, Debt, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Debt, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Global Financial System, Quantitative Tightening, Tax Cuts, Trickle down economics, Trumponomics, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, wall street
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The Coming Collapse
By Chris Hedges Source: Occupy.com The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, media, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Bailouts, Central Bankers, civil liberties, corporate media, Corporatism, corporatocracy, culture, Democratic Party, Despotism, DNC, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, fascism, financial crisis, Freedom, Nomi Prins, Ruling Elites, society, Totalitarianism, wall street
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Suicide? American Society is Murdering Us
By Ted Rall Source: CounterPunch They say that 10 million Americans seriously consider committing suicide every year. In 1984, when I was 20, I was one of them. Most people who kill themselves feel hopeless. They are miserable and distraught … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Work
Tagged culture, depression, Economics, healthcare, Illness, Isolation, Loneliness, Mental Illness, Poverty, society, Stress, suicide, technology, unemployment, Work
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A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide A $12,000 Annual Stipend To Every American Household
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income. By Paul Buchheit Source: Nation of Change It’s not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Recession, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged 1%, 99%, Arts and Sciences, big data, Big Pharma, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Entrepreneurs, financial crisis, income gap, Poverty, Progressive Tax, Stock Market, technology, UBI, unemployment, Universal Basic Income, wall street, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Tax
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Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
The Strange New Pathologies of the World’s First Rich Failed State By Umair Haque Source: Information Clearing House You might say, having read some of my recent essays, “Umair! Don’t worry! Everything will be fine! It’s not that bad!” I … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged addiction, America, American Empire, capitalism, Collapse, Community, culture, Dystopia, Economics, empire, Nomadic Retirees, Opioid Epidemic, Public Healthcare, school shootings, Social Decline, society, Suicides
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“If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets”
By Staff, Anticap.wordpress.com Source: Popular Resistance Chris Rock may be right. Still, Americans are well aware that economic inequality in their country is obscene, even though they often underestimate the growing gap between the poor and the rich. But it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Chris Rock, Class, economic inequality, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Housing, income gap, Wealth Disparity, World Inequality Lab
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