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The Top 10%’s Bubble Is About to Burst
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds When the top 10%’s bubble pops in 2021, the loss of illusions/delusions of security and wealth will be shattering to all those who believed artifice and illusory “wealth” were real. A great … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged asset deflation, Dystopia, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Income Inequality, Meritocracy, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Technocracy
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“The Great Reset” Already Happened
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there’s nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize. The global elites’ techno-fantasy of a completely centralized future, The Great Reset, is … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Global Elites, Globalization, gold standard, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Technocracy, The Great Reset, trade deficits
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Sacrifice for Thee But None For Me
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The banquet of consequences for the Fed, the elites and their armies of parasitic flunkies and factotums is being laid out, and there won’t be much choice in the seating. Words can … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Cartels, economic crisis, Economics, elites, empire, Federal Reserve, Financial Colllapse, Financialization, Globalization, Job security, Middle Class, Monopolies, Oligarchy, purchasing power, Roman Empire, Sacrifice, social mobility
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The Pandemic Is Accelerating Trends That Are Disrupting the Foundations of the Economy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The problem is the economy that’s left has no means of creating tens of millions of jobs to replace those lost as the 1959 economic model collapses. Fundamentally, the economy of 2019 … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, education, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Labor, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Financialization, healthcare, Pandemic, Peter Drucker, Stock Market, unemployment
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The financialization of the end of the world
By Kurt Cobb Source: resilience For those who are fans of cartoons from The New Yorker magazine and consistent readers of this blog, you might be able to guess my two favorite cartoons. In the first one, a man in a coat and … Continue reading
No, This Is Not Another 1929, 1973, 1987, 2000, or 2008
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Basing one’s decisions on analogs from the past is entering a fool’s paradise of folly. Like addicts who cannot control their cravings, financial analysts cannot stop themselves from seeking some analog situation … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Cartels, central banks, coronavirus, Covid-19, Debt, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Great Depression, Monopolies, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, overvalued stock valuations, Pandemic, stock buybacks, Wage Stagnation, wall street
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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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Data governance and the new frontiers of resistance
The 21st century corporation is using algorithmic-based intelligence to accumulate data on a massive scale. Social movements need to grasp this change quickly. By Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami Source: ROAR Four centuries after the East India Company set the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Inequality, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged algorithmic optimization, Amazon, artificial intelligence, Big Tech, capitalism, Commodification, Corporatization, corporatocracy, data capital, data dispossession, digital platforms, Dystopia, Economics, environment, Financialization, Global South, Intelligencification, intelligent corporation, Labor, Monopolies, neo-colonialism, Neoliberalism, Technocracy, technology, Uber, Wealth Concentration
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