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Tag Archives: Housing Crisis
Why Are so Few Americans Able to Get Ahead?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Our entire economy is characterized by cartel rentier skims, central-bank goosed asset bubbles and stagnating earned income for the bottom 90%. Despite the rah-rah about the “ownership society” and the best economy … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Cartels, central banks, Debt, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economic Stagnation, Economics, financial crisis, financialized economy, Higher Education, Housing Crisis, Precariat, rentier skims, Stagnant Wages
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The Wealth Hiding in Your Neighborhood
From country farmland to big city skyscrapers, absentee billionaires may be hiding wealth in your town — and driving up your cost of living. By Chuck Collins Source: OtherWords The rich are hiding trillions in wealth. You’ve probably heard about … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, society
Tagged Corporate Crime, Economics, financial crisis, Gentrification, Global Elites, Housing Crisis, Land Grabs, Money Laundering, Overvaluation, Real Estate, shell Corporations, Tax Evasion, Tax Havens
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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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Convenient Tales About Riches Within Reach
By Sam Pizzigati Source: OpEdNews.com The world at large knew virtually nada about Sylvia Bloom for 96 years. Then she died in 2016. Now, just a little too late, Sylvia Bloom is getting her belated — yet richly deserved — … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, education, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged austerity, corporate media, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Free Education, Housing Crisis, Income Disparity, Millenials, Millionaires, Precariats, Public Transit, Rent Control, Social Services, Sylvia Bloom, Wealth, Wealth Gap
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It’s time to call the housing crisis what it really is: the largest transfer of wealth in living memory
By Laurie Macfarlane Source: OpenDemocracy.net One of the basic claims of capitalism is that people are rewarded in line with their effort and productivity. Another is that the economy is not a zero sum game. The beauty of a capitalist … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged 1%, Britain, capitalism, Class Warfare, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Homelessness, Housing, Housing Crisis, income gap, Office for National Statistics, Wealth, Wealth Disparity
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What Happened to All Those Foreclosed Houses?
Wall Street bought them — and is now leasing them out and driving up rents. By Jim Hightower Source: OpEdNews.com We know that millions of American families lost their homes after Wall Street’s 2007 financial crash. But where did all … Continue reading
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
From Shanghai to San Francisco, the rent is too damn high
By Jerome Roos Source: RoarMag.org Capitalism is a strange beast. Though incredibly resilient in the face of systemic crises and remarkably adaptive to ever-changing conditions, it never truly overcomes its structural contradictions. As the Marxist geographer David Harvey often points … Continue reading
