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Tag Archives: Economic Recovery
Wall Street, Banks, and Angry Citizens
The Inequality Gap on a Planet Growing More Extreme By Nomi Prins Source: TomDispatch.com As we head into 2019, leaving the chaos of this year behind, a major question remains unanswered when it comes to the state of Main Street, … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Bailouts, Billionaires, central banks, china, Corporate Globalization, economic inequality, Economic Recovery, elites, Emmanuel Macron, European Union, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, France, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Quantitative Easing, recession, Trade War, wall street
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Living In A Van Down By The River – Time To Face The True State Of The Middle Class In America
By Michael Snyder Source: InvestmentWatch Do you remember the old Saturday Night Live sketches in which comedian Chris Farley portrayed a motivational speaker that lived in a van down by the river? Unfortunately, this is becoming a reality for way … Continue reading
Is the US Economy Heading for Recession?
By Jack Rasmus Source: Global Research This past week the U.S. government announced the country’s economy rose in the January-March 2016 at a mere 0.5 percent annual growth rate. Since the U.S., unlike other countries, estimates its GDP based on … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, media, news, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged bernie sanders, Economic Collapse, Economic Recovery, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, GDP, Global Economy, Millenials, recession, unemployment, US Economy
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A Lie That Serves the Rich — the truth about the American economy
By Paul Craig Roberts, John Titus, and Dave Kranzler Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org The labor force participation rate has declined from 66.5% in 2007 prior to the last downturn to 62.7% today. This decline in the participation rate is difficult to reconcile … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, propaganda, Recession, Science, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged A Lie That Serves the Rich, Dave Kranzler, Economic Recovery, John Titus, Offshoring, Paul Craig Roberts, PaulCraigRoberts.org, recession, U.S. Economy, unemployment
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It’s Not Just the Stock Market That’s Rigged: the Entire Status Quo Is Rigged
By Charles Hugh-Smith Source: InvestmentWatch One has to wonder why we are dodging this truth about what we’ve become: a nation that turns a blind eye to skimmers, scammers and legal looting. As in the story of the Emperor’s new … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, society, Uncategorized
Tagged Bull Market, Charles Hugh Smith, Corporate Crime, economic crisis, Economic Recovery, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, HFT, High Frequency Trading, InvestmentWatch, Market Rigging, Michael Lewis, recession, Stock Market, wall street
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Economic Bubbles Take From the Poor, Give to the Rich
At the Economic Populist Blog, Robert Oak posted an excellent analysis of the Pew Research report, A Rise in Wealth for the Wealthy; Declines for the Lower 93%, based on Census data on wealth taken since the so-called economic recovery … Continue reading
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Tagged David Stockman, Economic Bubble, Economic Collapse, Economic Collapse Blog, Economic Populist Blog, Economic Recovery, Marc Faber, Michael Snyder, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nomura Securities, Price–earnings ratio, Robert J. Shiller, Robert Oak, Ronald Reagan, Wall Street Journal
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