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A Most Peculiar Recession
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds So what are conventional pundits missing today? I would start with three dynamics. Only old people experienced real recessions–those in 1973-74 and 1980-82. Recessions since then have been shorter and less systemic. In the … Continue reading
The United States Does Not Have an Economy
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org The US financial sector has long looted other countries. A number of participants have described the process. First a country is enticed with bribes to the leaders to take out loans that cannot be serviced or … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged austerity, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, IMF, Lockdowns, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Russia, Sanctions, Technocracy
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Wokeness is a Product of Neoliberalism
Why don’t more people make this connection? By Chad C. Mulligan Source: The Hipcrime Vocab Substack One thing I haven’t seen people point out anywhere else is how much the current atmosphere of “wokeness” is an outcome of neoliberalism. Let … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Economics, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged capitalism, Competition, Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, culture, culture war, Economics, Free Market, Karl Polanyi, Naomi Klein, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Peter Kropotkin, Plutocracy, socially conscious, society, The Baffler, Thomas Frank, woke capitalism, wokeness
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What is the “Global Public-Private Partnership”?
By Iain Davis Source: Off-Guardian The Global Public-Private Partnership (GPPP) is a world-wide network of stakeholder capitalists and their partners. This collective of stakeholders (the capitalists and their partners) comprises global corporations (including central banks), philanthropic foundations (multi-billionaire philanthropists), policy think-tanks, governments … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Brundtland Commission, Buse & Walt, Club of Rome, Corporate Globalization, Covid-19, Davos, Economics, elites, geopolitics, Global Public-Private Partnership, GPPP, IMF, Klaus Schwab, Neoliberalism, Sustainable Development Goals, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, United Nations, WEF, World Health Organization, Zbigniew Brzezinsk
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The U.S. Economy In a Nutshell: When Critical Parts Are On “Indefinite Back Order,” the Machine Grinds to a Halt
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Setting aside the “transitory inflation” parlor game for a moment, let’s look at what happens when critical parts are unavailable for whatever reason, for example, they’re on back order or indefinite back order, i.e. the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Corporate Globalization, culture, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, Labor, Neoliberalism, scarcities, shortages, society, supply chains, Systemic Collapse, Work
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Where’s Dirk Gently When You Need Him?
By Erik Assadourian Source: Resilience Did you hear? A supersized cargo ship got wedged in the Suez Canal on March 23rd? If you didn’t, you must do pretty well at avoiding the news, social media, and late night TV. But … Continue reading
Economic effect of coronavirus could be revolutionary
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: Intrepid Report Coronavirus and globalism will teach us vital lessons. The question is whether we can learn vital lessons that do not serve the ruling interest groups and ideologies. Coronavirus will teach us that a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, society, Sociology
Tagged bernie sanders, Big Pharma, coronavirus, Corporate Crime, Corporate Globalization, Debt, debt-forgiveness, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalism, Health Care, Michael Hudson, national health care system, nationalization, Oligarchy, Public Health, Socialism, society, wall street
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The Economic Cataclysm Ahead
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The economic storm hasn’t passed; the false calm is only the eye of the financial hurricane. To understand the economic cataclysm ahead, do the math. Those expecting the Covid-19 pandemic to leave … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged central banks, coronavirus, Corporate Globalization, Covid-19, Debt, Economics, financial crisis, Pandemic, Precariat, Public Health, recession, Service Economy, U.S. Economy
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Desultory Heroics 