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Tag Archives: wall street
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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USA in a Debt Trap Death Spiral
By F. William Engdahl Source: New Eastern Outlook The US economy and its financial structures have never recovered from the great financial meltdown of 2008 despite the passage of ten years. Little discussion has been given to the fact that … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Recession, Social Control, society
Tagged Bretton Woods, central banks, Debt, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Debt, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Global Financial System, Quantitative Tightening, Tax Cuts, Trickle down economics, Trumponomics, US Dollar, US Foreign Policy, wall street
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The Coming Collapse
By Chris Hedges Source: Occupy.com The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, media, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Bailouts, Central Bankers, civil liberties, corporate media, Corporatism, corporatocracy, culture, Democratic Party, Despotism, DNC, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, fascism, financial crisis, Freedom, Nomi Prins, Ruling Elites, society, Totalitarianism, wall street
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Assets of world’s “high net wealth” millionaires surged to $70 trillion in 2017
By Barry Grey Source: WSWS.org The concentration of the planet’s wealth in the hands of a narrow financial elite is growing by leaps and bounds. A new report published Tuesday reveals that the wealth of the world’s 18.1 million “high … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Aristocracy, Capgemini, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, financial elite, high net wealth individual, HNWI, income gap, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Revolution, Trillionaires, wall street, Wealth Concentration, World Hunger, World Wealth Report 2018
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America is Disneyland
By Chris Kanthan Source: Activist Post Disneyland is the Happiest Place on Earth! Millions of families visit the theme park every year to enjoy the magical place of rides, spectacular shows and cheerful cartoon figures. Everything is clean, perfect and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged America, china, Corporate Greed, Corporations, corporatocracy, Disneyland, Economic Disparity, Economics, elites, Homelessness, Income Inequality, Labor, Neo Feudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, unemployment, United States, US Economy, wall street, Wealth Gap
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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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The Simulacra Democracy
By John Steppling Source: CounterPunch … a nation in which 87 percent of eighteen- to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Militarization, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, AFRICOM, American Culture, American History, CIA, Clinton, conspiracy, corporate media, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, empire, Gaddafi, geopolitics, Harvey Weinstein, Hegemony, hollywood, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, iraq, Liberals, Libya, NATO, Obama, propaganda, social control, society, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, wall street, Yemen
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