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“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”
By Asher Schechter Source: ProMarket Four decades ago, writes Tim Wu in the introduction to his recent book The Curse of Bigness, the United States and other countries entered into a sweeping experiment that radically transformed their economies and politics. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, society
Tagged antitrust, Cartels, Corporate Globalization, economic inequality, Economics, fascism, Free Market, Gilded Age, Louis Brandeis, Monopolies, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu, wall street, Wealth Concentration
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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, china, 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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Reflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019
By Robert J. Burrowes In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, freedom of speech, Geoengineering, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 2018, 2019, censorship, Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, economic inequality, elites, Energy, environment, Extinction, Famine, financial crisis, geoengineering, GMOs, Government, human trafficking, INF Treaty, Militarism, military spending, Peace, pollution, Poverty, Privacy, psychology, Slavery, State Crime, Violence, wall street, war, Wealth Concentration
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CEOs should have been the fall guys; why are they still heroes?
By Carl Rhodes Source: aeon On 15 September 2008, the giant financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, starting a chain reaction that saw the global economy spiralling toward total collapse. The global financial crisis that ensued revealed just … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, education, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Authoritarian, capitalism, CEO Salary, Donald Trump, economic inequality, Elon Musk, Facebook, financial crisis, Harvey Weinstein, Jamie Dimon, Jeff Bezos, JPMorgan Chase, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Shkreli, Miramax, Neoliberalism, recession, Stock Market Crash, Tim Cook, Turing Pharmaceuticals, wall street
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Wealth of 400 richest Americans hits record $2.9 trillion
By Alec Anderson Source: WSWS.org On Wednesday, the US finance magazine Forbes released its annual “Forbes 400” list of wealthiest Americans, revealing an immense increase in wealth among the top social stratum in the United States. The total net worth … Continue reading
Posted in Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Bill Gates, capitalism, CEO Compensation, Corporate CEOs, Democrats, Donald Trump, Duopoly, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Facebook, financial crisis, Forbes 400, Google, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Republicans, Trillionaires, Twitter, wall street, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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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
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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