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Is Inflation “Transitory”? Here’s Your Simple Test
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Is inflation “transitory” in your household budget? Really? Where? The Federal Reserve has been bleating that inflation is “transitory”–but what about the real world that we live in, as opposed to the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, Oligarchy, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Gap
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America’s Fatal Synergies
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds America’s financial system and state are themselves the problems, yet neither system is capable of recognizing this or unwinding their fatal synergies. why do some systems/states emerge from crises stronger while similar … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Benign Synergies, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elies, Fatal Synergies, financial crisis, Global Crisis, Oligarchy, political corruption, Wealth Concentration
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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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How Billionaires Took Over Liberalism and Destroyed It
By Eric Zuesse Source: Strategic Culture Foundation They’ve done it via the ‘news’-media — their propaganda-operations. So, this is about how billionaires do that; how they’ve done it. Ever since at least the time of Thucydides in the 5th century BC, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state
Tagged Billionaires, corporate news, economic economic, Economics, geopolitics, Mainstream Media, Neocons, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, RussiaGate, The Guardian, war, Wealth Concentration
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Why Assets Will Crash
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds This is how it happens that boats that were once worth tens of thousands of dollars are set adrift by owners who can no longer afford to pay slip fees. The increasing … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bailouts, coronavirus, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, finanacial crisis, Housing Crisis, Oligarchy, Pandemic, wall street, Wealth Concentration
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Of Course Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
By HipCrime Vocab There’s apparently a row over whether billionaires should exist. That is, whether or not billionaires should be a thing in our society. What a stupid question. Of course billionaires shouldn’t exist! But the reason has nothing to do with … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Amazon, Aristocracy, Bill Gates, Billionaires, capitalism, Classical Liberals, economic inequality, Economics, Great Britain, John D. Rockefeller, Libertarianism, market failure, Matt Stoller, Millionaires, Monopolies, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Socialism, technology, Wealth Concentration
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Data governance and the new frontiers of resistance
The 21st century corporation is using algorithmic-based intelligence to accumulate data on a massive scale. Social movements need to grasp this change quickly. By Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami Source: ROAR Four centuries after the East India Company set the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Inequality, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged algorithmic optimization, Amazon, artificial intelligence, Big Tech, capitalism, Commodification, Corporatization, corporatocracy, data capital, data dispossession, digital platforms, Dystopia, Economics, environment, Financialization, Global South, Intelligencification, intelligent corporation, Labor, Monopolies, neo-colonialism, Neoliberalism, Technocracy, technology, Uber, Wealth Concentration
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Wealth Identity Politics: Billionaires Acting Like A Persecuted Minority Is Peak Capitalism
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com “I guess maybe Bernie Sanders shouldn’t exist,” said billionaire Steve Schwarzman while seated in a library building named after billionaire Steve Schwarzman and promoting a book with billionaire Steve Schwarzman’s face on it. According to Bloomberg … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, Geopolitics, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged 1%, bernie sanders, Billionaires, corporate media, economic inequality, Economic Justice, Economics, Ego, elites, Ken Langone, Mainstream Media, MSM, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Power Elite, propaganda, psychology, Steve Schwarzman, Wealth Concentration
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