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America’s Economy Cannot Survive Another Lockdown, And The Cult Of The Reset Knows It
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.us The U.S. economy has been on the verge of collapse for at least a decade, ever since the crash of 2008 and the subsequent explosion in fiat stimulus from the Federal Reserve. While the mainstream … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy
Tagged Bailouts, coronavirus, Covid-19, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Globalists, Justin Trudeau, Klaus Shwab, lockdown, Oligarchy, Poverty, Technocracy, The Great Reset, unemployment, World Economic Forum, zombie economy
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As Millions Face Eviction, Senate Proposes Nearly $700 Billion for Pentagon
By John Vibes Source: Activist Post As millions face eviction and line up at food banks throughout the country, waiting for another stimulus payment that will seemingly never come, the Senate Appropriations Committee is proposing a $696 billion Pentagon spending … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, military spending, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 2021 Pentagon spending bill, Corporate Welfare, eviction, F-35, financial crisis, Homelessness, military spending, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Poverty, unemployment
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The Economy Continues To Unravel Despite All Stimulus Measures
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com Since the pandemic lockdowns were first implemented in the US I have been more concerned with the government and central bank response than the virus itself. As I have noted in past articles, the pandemic … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged central banks, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Pandemic, unemployment
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Global billionaire wealth tops $10 trillion as COVID-19 deaths mount
By Jacob Crosse Source: WSWS.org The collective wealth of the world’s 2,189 billionaires has risen to $10.2 trillion, an increase of nearly $1.3 trillion in the past three years, according to a new report by the Swiss bank UBS and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged bailout, Billionaires, covid profiteers, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Institute for Policy Studies, Jeff Bezos, Mass Poverty, Neoclassical Economics, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Riding the Storm, unemployment, Wealth Concentration
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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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Stories Of Economic Despair From America’s Worst Economic Downturn Since The Great Depression Of The 1930s
By Michael Snyder Source: End of the American Dream The economic pain that we are witnessing right now is far greater than anything that we witnessed during the last recession. U.S. GDP declined by 32.9 percent on an annualized basis … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, Economic Collapse, Economics, Evictions, financial crisis, Homelessness, Mass Poverty, Oligarchy, restaurant apocalypse, unemployment
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This Is a Financial Extinction Event
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed. Though under pressure from climate change, the dinosaurs were still dominant … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged bankruptcies, central banks, consumer spending, Consumerism, coronavirus, Covid-19, defaults, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Global Economy, unemployment
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The Free Market Is A Failure
By TheHipcrimeVocab Sorry for the deliberately click-bait-y headline, but I think this message is important to get out there. In my discussions few months back on What is Neoliberalism, I noted that a core element of neoliberal philosophy is that markets are … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged capitalism, Covid-19, Economics, financial crisis, Global Food System, healthcare system, Karl Polanyi, Neoliberalism, Pandemic, Public Health, The Free Market, unemployment
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