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Tag Archives: Stock Market
Bull or Bear? The Ultimate Source of Market Instability
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Market commentators tend to focus on Bulls and Bears and Federal Reserve policies as drivers of stock market gyrations, but there’s a far more profound dynamic working beneath these veneers: the forces of adaptation and evolution transforming … Continue reading
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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Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid
By Ellen Brown Source: Web of Debt BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, news, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged bailout, BlackRock, CARES act, central banks, Covid-19, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Philipp Hildebrand, Standing Emergency Fiscal Facility, Stock Market, wall street
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Re-Opening the Economy Won’t Fix What’s Broken
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Re-opening a fragile, brittle, bankrupt, hopelessly perverse and corrupt “normal” won’t fix what’s broken. The stock market is in a frenzy of euphoria at the re-opening of the economy. Too bad the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Debt, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Infrastructure, Oligarchy, Productivity, Stock Market, Wage Stagnation
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The Economic Crash So Far: A Look At The Real Numbers
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com There are many problems when attempting to track a faltering economy. For one, the people in government generally do not want the public to know when the system is in decline because this looks bad … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, History, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conspiracy theory, Debt, Economic Crash, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, Financial Bubble, financial crisis, GDP, Housing Crisis, Labor, millennials, Real Wages, recession, Retirement, Stock Market, U.S. manufacturing, unemployment, Work
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What globalism did was to transfer the US economy to China
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: Intrepid Report The main problem with the US economy is that globalism has been deconstructing it. The offshoring of US jobs has reduced US manufacturing and industrial capability and associated innovation, research, development, supply chains, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, GDP, geopolitics, Globalism, Jobs, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plunge Protection Team, recession, Stock Market, Tariffs, Trade War, Work
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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
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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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