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Get Ready For An Economic Wake-Up Call This Holiday Season
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com If we are to measure the concept of “economic recovery” in real terms, then we would have to look at the fundamentals (not stock markets) and whether or not they’re improving. Unfortunately, not all economic … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Bankruptcy, china, Consumer Debt, consumer demand, Corporate Globalization, Corporate Welfare, Economic Bubble, Economic Crash, Economics, Exports, financial crisis, Germany, Global Economy, global manufacturing, Japan, manufacturing jobs, Oligarchy, price inflation, retail sales growth, South Korea, Tariffs, Tax Cuts, Trade War, US Economy
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The 5-Step CEO pay scam
Grossly widening inequalities of income and wealth cannot be separated from grossly widening inequalities of political power in America. This corruption must end. By Robert Reich Source: Nation of Change Average CEO pay at big corporations topped 14.5 million dollars in … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Labor, Law, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged CEO Pay, CEOs, Corporate Tax Cuts, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Income Inequality, Oligarchy, Pay Gap, Plutocracy, political corruption, stock buybacks, Wealth Disparity
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Multi-Billion Dollar Giveaway to Amazon
By Stephen Lendman Source: StephanLendman.org Seattle-based Amazon is like corporate predator Walmart, exploiting communities, along with harming local businesses and workers for maximum productivity and profits. The company’s $100 billion dollar CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t get super-rich by being worker … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Amazon HQ2, Amazon Workers, Amazon.com, CIA, Corporate Welfare, corporatocracy, Crony Capitalism, Deep State, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, predatory capitalism, Seattle, Sports, Worker Exploitation, Worker's Rights
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Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill for Sky-High CEO Salaries
Billions in taxpayer funds go to CEOs who pay their workers peanuts. We can change that. By Sam Pizzigati Source: Other Words Politicians often gab about the “private sector” and the “public sector,” as if these two categories of economic … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged CEO Pay, Corporate Welfare, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Government Contractors, Income Disparity, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Portland, Wealth Gap
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The Pentagon Budget as Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers
By William Hartung (with introduction by TomDispatch) Source: TomDispatch.com What company gets the most money from the U.S. government? The answer: the weapons maker Lockheed Martin. As the Washington Post recently reported, of its $51 billion in sales in 2017, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Corporate Welfare, Defense Spending, Domestic Spending, Donald Trump, economic crisis, empire, F-35, geopolitics, iraq, Jim Mattis, Libya, Lockheed Martin, Militarism, Military Contractors, military spending, Pakistan, Pentagon Budget, Reagonomics, Somalia, Syria, Tax Giveaways, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Yemen
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A Stock Market Primer, in Six Easy Steps
By William Kaufman Source: CounterPunch What is the stock market? 1) It’s not real economic activity—it’s a form of mass hysteria or mass psychosis. 2) Stock prices reflect a mass-hysteria impression of the worth of a piece of paper you … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, 99%, corporate media, Corporate Welfare, Economics, economy, High Speed Trading, Kleptocrats, Mass Hysteria, MSM, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Quantitative Easing, Stock Market, Tax Breaks, Technocrats, wall street
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Trump proposes huge hike in military and police spending
By Patrick Martin Source: WSWS.org The Trump administration sent instructions to federal agencies Monday proposing a $54 billion increase in spending for the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, to be offset by $54 billion in … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Border Wall, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Domestic Spending, Education, empire, EPA, food stamps, geopolitics, Health and Human Services, Housing, Infrastructure, John McCain, Labor, Medicaid, Medicare, Mick Mulvaney, Militarization, Military, Military Budget, military spending, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, Pentagon, police, police state, Ruling Elite, Social Security, taxpayer dollars, Transportation, Trump, Trump Administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, Urban Development
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Either Reverse All the Perverse Incentives or the System Will Implode
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Every perverse incentive is the cash cow for a vested interest or cartel. I hope it’s not a great shock to discover all the incentives in our status quo are perverse: those … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Health, Social Control, society
Tagged Corporate Welfare, Corruption, Debt, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, healthcare, Home Ownership
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