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Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up
By Michael Hudson Source: The Unz Review The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse of supporting shelving is the rising … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Central bank, derivatives, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Quantitative Easing, recession, S&Ls, Silkicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, SVB, Technocracy, Treasury securities
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Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun
By F. William Engdahl Source: Global Research Since the creation of the US Federal Reserve over a century ago, every major financial market collapse has been deliberately triggered for political motives by the central bank. The situation is no different … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Biden Administration, BitCoin, BlackRock, central banks, China, Citigroup, Credit Bubble, Cryptocurrency, Digital Currency, Economic Collapse, economic depression, Economics, Federal Reserve, Fidelity, financial crisis, GATT, geopolitics, Globalization, grain, Great Reset, Housing Market, Inflation, JP MorganChase, Lehman Bros, mortgage rates, natural gas, Quantitative Easing, Richard Nixon, Russia, Wells Fargo, World Trade Organization, WTO
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The War in Ukraine Marks the End of the American Century. “What’s Left is a Steaming Pile of Dollar Denominated Debt”
By Mike Whitney Source: Global Research “The ferocity of the confrontation in Ukraine shows that we’re talking about much more than the fate of the regime in Kiev. The architecture of the entire world order is at stake.” Sergei Naryshkin, Director … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Social Control, society, State Crime, Technology, war
Tagged Biden Administration, Bretton Woods Agreement, central banks, Economic Collapse, Economic War, Economics, empire, energy prices, financial crisis, Gazprom, geopolitics, Gold, imperialism, national debt, New American Century, Quantitative Easing, Richard Nixon, Russia, Ukraine, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, war
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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, 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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A Stock Market Primer, in Six Easy Steps
By William Kaufman Source: CounterPunch What is the stock market? 1) It’s not real economic activity—it’s a form of mass hysteria or mass psychosis. 2) Stock prices reflect a mass-hysteria impression of the worth of a piece of paper you … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, 99%, corporate media, Corporate Welfare, Economics, economy, High Speed Trading, Kleptocrats, Mass Hysteria, MSM, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Quantitative Easing, Stock Market, Tax Breaks, Technocrats, wall street
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Financial turmoil and increasing risks of a severe worldwide economic recession in 2016-17
By Rodrigue Tremblay Source: Dissident Voice “May you live in interesting times.”—Popular curse, purported to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse “The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Social Control, society
Tagged Ben Bernanke, Boom and Bust, Corporate Globalization, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, Financial Bubble, financial crisis, Global Finance, Quantitative Easing, Stock Market Crash
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