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What’s Changed and What Hasn’t in a Tumultuous Year
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Inequality is America’s Monster Id, and we’re continuing to fuel its future rampage daily. What’s changed and what hasn’t in the past year? What hasn’t changed is easy: 1. Wealth / income inequality … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged central banks, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Over-speculation, tourism, Wage Stagnation, Wealth
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Stagflation Subterfuge: The Real Disaster Hidden By The Pandemic
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.us In recent economic news, headlines are being dominated by concerns over rising bond yields. Increased bond yields are a sign of a possible spike in inflation and, logically, they call for the Federal Reserve to raise … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Bank for International Settlements, BIS, central banks, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dollar Devaluation, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Great Reset, Inflation, Lockdowns, Oligarchy, Pandemic, stagflation, Technocracy
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When will the central bankers pay for all the wealth inequality and misery they’ve caused?
By Mitchell Feierstein Source: RT.com Janet Yellen’s been nominated by Joe Biden as Treasury Secretary, despite a poor record as Federal Reserve chair. This is typical of the unwarranted confidence placed in the central bankers who’ve caused so much financial … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Berkshire Financial Services, central banks, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, JPMorgan, Mark Carney, US Federal Reserve
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Our Frustrations Run Far Deeper Than Covid Lockdowns
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The reality is the roulette wheel is rigged and only chumps believe it’s a fair game. It’s easy to lay America’s visible frustrations at the feet of Covid lockdowns or political polarization, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Law, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged central banks, coronavirus, corporate cronies, Covid-19, culture, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Frederic Bastiat, Inequality, Injustice, lockdown, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariats, society, systemic unfairness, Wealth Gap
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What We Don’t Elect Matters Most: Central Banking and the Permanent Government
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We’re Number One in wealth, income and power inequality, yea for the Fed and the Empire! If we avert our eyes from the electoral battle on the blood-soaked sand of the Coliseum … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Big Tech, central banks, Deep State, Economics, Election 2020, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, Oligarchy, Permanent Government, Plutocracy, Technocracy, voting
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The Economy Continues To Unravel Despite All Stimulus Measures
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com Since the pandemic lockdowns were first implemented in the US I have been more concerned with the government and central bank response than the virus itself. As I have noted in past articles, the pandemic … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged central banks, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Pandemic, unemployment
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Inflation Is Stealth Austerity
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Rather than decry austerity, which demands an open political discussion of trade-offs, we should decry inflation’s stealthy reduction of purchasing power. Austerity–bad. Inflation–good. Oh wait–they’re the same thing: both are a reduction … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged austerity, central banks, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, Oligarchy
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