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Tag Archives: financial crisis
Amazon and Apple: Wall Street’s Trillion Dollar Babies
By Dean Baker Source: CounterPunch Last month Amazon joined Apple, becoming the second company in the world to have a $1 trillion market capitalization. Amazon’s accomplishment didn’t cause quite as much celebration as Apple’s – it pays to be number … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, Oligarchy, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, big data, capitalism, corporatocracy, Economics, financial crisis, Financialization, Jonas Salk, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Polio, Silicon Valley, Smoking, Stock Market, Tax Evasion, wall street
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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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For Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Readers ask me how they can learn economics, what books to read, what university economics departments to trust. I receive so many requests that it is impossible to reply individually. Here is my answer. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Classical Economics, Debt, Economic Rent, Economics, elites, environment, External Costs, financial crisis, Financialization, J Is for Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, privatization, Supply-side Economics, Taxes, unemployment
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Why do corporate boards so overpay US CEOs?
By Sam Pizzigati Source: Nation of Change Back in 1999, near the dizzying height of the dot-com boom, no executive in Corporate America personified the soaring pay packages of America’s CEOs more than Jack Welch, the chief exec at General … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, society
Tagged 1%, CEO Pay, Corporate CEOs, Corporate Elites, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economic Policy Institute, Economics, Executive Paychecks, financial crisis, Free Market, General Electric, Income Disparity, Jack Welch, MBAs, Rigged Game, Wealth Gap
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America’s Debt Dependence Makes It An Easy Economic Target
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com There is a classic denial tactic that many people use when confronted with negative facts about a subject they have a personal attachment to; I would call it “deferral denial” — or a psychological postponing of … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged central banks, Consumer Debt, Corporate Debt, Debt, Debt Monetization, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, foreign investment, International Banks, Mortgage Backed Securities, Trade War, U.S. Debt, U.S. Dollar, US Economy
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National (In)Security In the United States of Inequality
By Rajan Menon Source: Unz Review So effectively has the Beltway establishment captured the concept of national security that, for most of us, it automatically conjures up images of terrorist groups, cyber warriors, or “rogue states.” To ward off such … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, military spending, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars, Work
Tagged American Society, Child Poverty, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Health Insurance, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, military spending, National Security State, Poverty, unemployment, Working Poor
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The Suicidal Empire
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov There are a lot of behaviors being exhibited by those in positions of power in the US that seem disparate and odd. We watch Trump who is imposing sanctions on country after country, dreaming … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Corruption, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, EU, financial crisis, geopolitics, history, imperialism, Militarism, military spending, NATO, Sanctions, US Foreign Policy
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US Intelligence Community as a Collapse Driver
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov In today’s United States, the term “espionage” doesn’t get too much use outside of some specific contexts. There is still sporadic talk of industrial espionage, but with regard to Americans’ own efforts to understand … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, military spending, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged black ops, Cold War, Deep State, DNC, Economics, empire, espionage, False Flags, financial crisis, geopolitics, military spending, propaganda, Psy-ops, Putin, Robert Mueller, Russia, RussiaGate, State Terror, Treason, US Economic, US Intelligence, war
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