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Tag Archives: Great Depression
Another Bank Bailout Under Cover of a Virus
By Ellen Brown Source: Web of Debt Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged bail-ins, Bank Bailouts, CARES act, central banks, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dodd Frank Act, Economic Collapse, Economics, economy, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Great Depression, Pandemic, Public Banks, repo market, wall street
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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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The New Economy: Unemployment and the Return of the American Hobo
By Sheldon Greaves Source: Cogito! A few years ago I read somewhere about a trend in the “gig economy” in which people who had been reduced to living in their cars or RVs roamed the country by the thousands; homeless, … Continue reading
The 1% Versus the 99%: Realignment, Repression or Revolution
Wealth Inequality Is Putting the US on Course for a Showdown By Klaus Marre Source: WhoWhatWhy.org The richest 20 Americans now own as much wealth as the country’s poorest 152 million people combined. That is just one of the findings … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, society
Tagged 1%, 99%, American Dream, bernie sanders, capitalism, College Tuition, Donald Trump, economic crisis, Great Depression, Inequality, Middle Class, Millenials, Realignment, recession, Repression, Revolution, Socialism, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Inequality
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The US economy has not recovered and will not recover
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: Intrepid Report The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted Wall Street, corporate executives, and shareholders, because lower labor and compliance costs resulted … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Social Control, society
Tagged Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Deregulation, Economic Collapse, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, GDP, Great Depression, Housing Market, John Maynard Keynes, Michael Hudson, propaganda, recession, unemployment, US Economy
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The U.S. Is At The Center Of The Global Economic Meltdown
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com While the economic implosion progresses this year, there will be considerable misdirection and disinformation as to the true nature of what is taking place. As I have outlined in the past, the masses were so … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged Dollar Devaluation, Economic Collapse, Economic Meltdown, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Global Economy, Globalization, Great Depression, Oil Industry, recession, U.S. Economy, Wal-Mart, Wealth Destruction, World Currency
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An Introduction to Technofeudalism Ascending
By SARTRE Source: BATR.org The future of the planetary “Reign of Terror” has never been clearer. The pattern for global governance has been set into motion and operates under a model that has been used throughout much of history. The … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Militarization, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Corporate Globalization, empire, Feudalism, Great Depression, Liberty, Neoliberalism, Precariat, recession, Serfdom, Technocracy, Technofeudalism
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It’s the Law
Interesting commentary by James E. Miller, editor-in-chief of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada. It connects recent current events in a logical narrative and offers a plausable explanation for the apparant wind-down of the war on (some) drugs. excerpt: … Continue reading
Posted in Drug War, Economics, Law
Tagged criminal justice system, drug war, Eric Holder, Great Depression, law, Market Crash, Natural Law, police, Tax Revenue
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