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Tag Archives: Central bank
Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up
By Michael Hudson Source: The Unz Review The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse of supporting shelving is the rising … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Central bank, derivatives, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Quantitative Easing, recession, S&Ls, Silkicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, SVB, Technocracy, Treasury securities
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Rushkoff on the Economy
I’ve been reading Douglas Rushkoff’s “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now” and have by coincidence just reached a chapter of the book covering the topic of currencies and the economy as Washington D.C. attempts to avoid another default. I found … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Social Control, society, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Arthur Magazine, Bernard Lietaer, budget deficit, Carlo M. Cipolla, Central bank, centralized currency, Corporations, Currency, Douglas Rushkoff, Fernand Braudel, Government shutdown, interest-bearing currency, Late Middle Ages, Local Currencies, Present Shock, Renaissance
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