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Tag Archives: Stock Market
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
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, Oligarchy, society, Technology
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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What’s Wrong with the Economy: 9 Toxic Dynamics
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds These nine dynamics are mutually reinforcing. Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all sense something is deeply, systemically wrong with the U.S. economy. These … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Economic Collapse, Economic Growth, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, Fossil Fuels, Globalization, income gap, Labor, Over-speculation, Stock Market, technology, US Economy, wall street, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide A $12,000 Annual Stipend To Every American Household
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income. By Paul Buchheit Source: Nation of Change It’s not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Recession, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged 1%, 99%, Arts and Sciences, big data, Big Pharma, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Entrepreneurs, financial crisis, income gap, Poverty, Progressive Tax, Stock Market, technology, UBI, unemployment, Universal Basic Income, wall street, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Tax
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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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Slowly, Then All at Once
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Clusterfuck Nation The staggering incoherence of the election campaign only mirrors the shocking incapacity of the American public, from top to bottom, to process the tendings of our time. The chief tending is permanent worldwide … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, Election Fraud, Empire, Financial Crisis, news, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Banks, Donald Trump, economic crisis, Economics, Election 2016, Federal Reserve, Hillary Clinton, politics, Poverty, Precariat, Presidential Elections, Stock Market, Systemic Collapse, wall street
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How Do You Know When Your Society Is In The Midst Of Collapse?
By Brandon Smith Source: Activist Post As economic turmoil worldwide becomes increasingly apparent, I have been receiving messages from readers expressing some concerns on the public “perception” of collapse. That is to say, there are questions on the average person’s … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Bank for International Settlements, BIS, Collapse, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Stock Market, wall street
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Markets Ignore Fundamentals And Chase Headlines Because They Are Dying
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com Normalcy bias is a rather horrifying thing. It is so frightening because it is so final; much like death, there is simply no coming back. Rather than a physical death, normalcy bias represents the death … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, media, propaganda, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Baltic Dry Index, BDI, Bubble Economy, central banks, corporate media, disinformation, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, financial crisis, Governments, lies, Mainstream Economists, Market Speculation, MSM, Normalcy Bias, propaganda, Stock Market, wall street
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