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Tag Archives: Banks
Putting an End to the Rent Economy
By Michael Hudson and Vlado Plaga Source: Unz Review Interview with Vlado Plaga in the German magazine FAIRCONOMY, September 2017. Originally, you didn’t want to become an economist. How did it come that you changed your plans and digged so … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Philosophy, Recession, Social Control, society
Tagged Banks, Banksters, Classical Economics, Compound Interest, Debt, economic crisis, Economics, Finance, Finance Capital, Financialization, Housing Bubble, Insurance, John Brown, Michael Flürscheim, Michael Hudson, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Real Estate, Savings and Loan Crisis, Subprime Crisis, wall street
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Reimagining Money
What if markets were designed to build trust instead of wealth? By Douglas Rushkoff (The Atlantic) Bitcoin was conceived as a modern solution to an ages-old problem: How can two parties agree on and verify an exchange of value? In … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Banks, BitCoin, Blockchain, centralized currency, Community Currencies, Cryptocurrency, Currency, Debt, Digital Currency, Douglas Rushkoff, economic crisis, Economics, Mutual Exchange, technology, Time Dollars
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Slowly, Then All at Once
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Clusterfuck Nation The staggering incoherence of the election campaign only mirrors the shocking incapacity of the American public, from top to bottom, to process the tendings of our time. The chief tending is permanent worldwide … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, Election Fraud, Empire, Financial Crisis, news, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Banks, Donald Trump, economic crisis, Economics, Election 2016, Federal Reserve, Hillary Clinton, politics, Poverty, Precariat, Presidential Elections, Stock Market, Systemic Collapse, wall street
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Sumerian Economics
By Peter Lamborn Wilson Source: Reality Sandwich Public secret: everyone knows but no one speaks. Another kind of public secret: the fact is published but no one pays attention. A cuneiform tablet called The Sumerian King List states that “kingship … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Economics, History, Philosophy, Social Control, society
Tagged Banks, Economics, Enki, Fiat Currency, Marduk, Money, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sumeria, Sumerian King List, Tiamut
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