Source – bonnerandpartners.com – “…The Deep State, in addition to being malignant and entertaining, is incompetent. It fights wars just to lose them. It solves problems and makes them worse. Led by the Yellen Fed, it “improves” the economy and leaves 9 out of 10 people poorer than they were before”: (How Free Money Leaves…
Source – anirudhsethireport.com – “…The culprit? The Fed, the same Fed which does not to grasp that by “renormalizing” into the biggest bond bubble in history is assuring massive losses for the financial sector. The problem is simple: having inflated a gargantuan bond bubble, letting the air out would by definition lead to dramatic consequences…
Source – ragingbullshit.com – “…The IMF suggests neoliberalism has been a failure. But it has worked very well for the global 1%, which was always the IMF and World Bank’s intent. As Oxfam reported earlier this year, the wealthiest 1% in the world now has as much wealth as the rest of the planet’s population…
Source -. islandnet.com – “…Because of this subordination of social systems of research and communication to transnational capital control, whatever does recognize the capitalist cancer is normally rejected. This social immune suppression is now global, with over 90% of all foreign news output, for example, controlled by five U.S. and European multinational news agencies. Cancerous…
Source – politicaleconomy.ie – “…The destructive operations of extractive capital, facilitated and supported by the imperial state has generated powerful forces of resistance. These forces are changing the contours of the class struggle, which today is focused less on the land and the labour struggle than on the negative socio-environmental impacts of extractive capital and…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca – “…Ultimately, the war on cash is all about increasing control by eliminating privacy and the freedom to abandon the debt-serf rat-race. I should have the right to conduct my business with cash and pay my taxes digitally. Cash is necessary to maintain some modicum of privacy in an age of all-pervasive financial…
Source – lewrockwell.com – “…In other words, one could potentially use the depository’s infrastructure to make purchases using gold, and to have gold either directly deposited into another’s account, or converted to US dollars and deposited in a conventional bank. Arguably, this is just an electronic version of gold-backed money. (Hurrah For The Texas Gold Depository——-All The…
Source – tomdispatch.com – “…The “masters of mankind,” as Adam Smith called them: in his day, the merchants and manufacturers of England; in ours, multinational conglomerates, huge financial institutions, retail empires, and the like. Still following Smith, it is also wise to attend to the “vile maxim” to which the “masters of mankind” are dedicated:…
Source – cognidissidence.blogspot.ca – “…The Federal Reserve has less than $50 billion of ‘capital’ (think down payment) supporting a balance sheet of $4 trillion (think the total loan on the house). The math shows the Fed’s leverage ratio to be at least 80-1. And I was being extremely generous stating the Fed has $50 billion…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…The cat’s out of the bag,” Mossack said. “So now we have to deal with the aftermath – Perhaps it is for Panama. But one place is delighted to take its place: the US, and specifically states like Nevada and Wyoming, which as we showed before, are the new global tax…
Source – collective-evolution.com, By Robito Chatwin – No one is immune to debt, and the majority of us are in some form of financial debt (1, 2, 3). Studies show that not having enough money, and especially being in debt, causes serious physical and mental distress (1, 2, 3). This article investigates why banks put…
Source – joelhirst.wordpress.com – I never expected to witness the slow suicide of a country, a civilization. I suppose nobody does. Let me tell you, there’s nothing epic about it. We who have the privilege of travel often look down in satisfaction at the ruins of ancient Greece; the Parthenon lit up in blues and…
Source – theeconomiccollapseblog.com – A shocking new survey has found that support for capitalism is dying in America. In fact, more than half of all adults in the United States under the age of 30 say that they do not support capitalism at this point. You might be tempted to dismiss them as “foolish young…
Source – npr.org – Karen Dawisha’s new book Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia shows how Russian president Vladimir Putin has enabled his cronies to become enormously wealthy under his kleptocratic rule: ARUN RATH, HOST: Karen Dawisha, professor of political science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, spent the last five years investigating how Russia’s president,…
Source – charleseisenstein.net – “When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.” Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to…
Source – zengardner.com, By Daisy Luther – Tick. Tock, Do you hear that? It’s the clock on the time bomb, and it appears to be ticking relentlessly toward our economic collapse. It seems like every day, there is a new threat to the financial well-being of the disappearing middle class in America. Of course, less…
Source – washingtonsblog.com – The Dow closed above 18,000 on Monday for the first time since July. Isn’t that great news? I truly wish that it was. If the Dow actually reflected economic reality, I could stop writing about “economic collapse” and start blogging about cats or football. Unfortunately, the stock market and the economy…
Source – alternet.org – There’s a Huge Desire to Revamp Our Exploitive Economy, Bubbling in the Collective Unconscious: Philosopher, linguist, and social critic Noam Chomsky recently spoke about his experiences in campus activism and his vision of a just society to help inaugurate the Next System Project’s ambitious new teach-ins initiative taking place across the…
Source – journal-neo.org/ – The word is on the street is that the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) has encountered serious financial challenges lately for the first time since the beginning of anti-terrorist operations in Syria and Iraq. The terrorist organization has been pushed into a corned due to continuous airstrikes aimed at destroying ISIS-held oil…
Source – shtfplan.com – It is tax day again – Chances are, you’re done with the dirty business this year, or laying low in hopes that you aren’t audited or flat out persecuted. If not, the clock is quickly ticking. But it is worth pointing out once again the many ways in which the federal…
Source – veteranstoday.com -” It’s becoming pretty obvious that the days of Federal Reserve System hegemony are now limited, in that much of the world is dumping the US Petro Dollar and plans to shift to direct trade and use of Gold, Silver and commodity-backed real currencies”: Everyday more and more Americans that didn’t already…
Source .johnperkins.org – The Panama Papers should be no surprise. I was there in the 1970s, when the system they’ve exposed was set in motion. As an Economic Hit Man (an EHM), I helped forge this global economy that is based on legalized crimes. It’s a system in which 62 individuals have as much wealth…
Source – zerohedge.com – In Greek mythology there was a monster called Cerberus, the hound of Hades, a monstrous multi-headed dog who guarded the gates of the underworld, preventing the dead from leaving. Today central banks have taken on the role of feeding our own modern version of Cerberus to keep all the troubles away. Ever since the…
Source – goldenageofgaia.com – Nathan Rothschild Won the Battle of Waterloo: To understand how Nathan Rothschild dramatically and deceitfully increased his wealth, you’ll have to know what consols are and how they made him much wealthier than he already was. The word ‘consols’ is shortened from ‘consolidated annuities’, which David Wilcock writes was the British…
Source – goldenageofgaia.com – Rise of the Rothschilds: Now, let’s learn about the rise of the Rothschilds. Some activists have pointed out that there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of the Rothschilds being a part of the ‘global conspiracy’ because they can’t find the family name in any of their research. It seems that…
Source – libertyblitzkrieg.com – Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information that is shaking political regimes around the world. “The CIA…
Source – goldenageofgaia.com – ‘Rockefeller’ and ‘Rothschild’ are two of the most common names discussed in the conscious community, and if you’re like me, all of the talk about them (and the so-called ‘elite’ families in general) has made you want to know more about what they’re doing and how they came to power. In…
Source – zerohedge.com – We reported in 2010 that the American Dream has moved abroad: We provided additional details in 2013 and 2014. Today, a very powerful insider – the President of the most powerful Fed bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bill Dudley – confirmed that the American Dream has left the…
Source – socialistproject.ca – Both the Trudeau Liberals in Ottawa and the Wynne Government at Queen’s Park in Toronto have been making noises of late on the subject of Basic Income. The last Ontario Budget, in fact, declared an intention to carry out a pilot project in a community still to be announced. While no…
Source – journal-neo.org – Gold is one of the most fascinating of all rare metals. Throughout all history it has been given a special, at times sacred or spiritual value, since six thousand years ago when the Egyptian Pharoahs’ tombs were filled with it to accompany the dead on their journey. In times of world…
Source – downwithtyranny.blogspot.ca – “Compared to the national average, you are poorer then people of your age in the past. In real terms, your disposable income is about $3,389. LESS then in 1978”: The Sanders- and Trump-led (for now) political rebellion is not going to go away. There are only two questions going forward: Will…
Source – wsws.org – A new study by a University of California-Berkeley economist says that at current sluggish levels of job growth, entire regions of the United States, which were hit hardest by the Great Recession will not return to “normal” employment levels until the 2020s. This amounts, to “more than a ‘lost decade’ of…
Source – dollarcollapse.com – Not so long ago the financial world viewed certain numbers as limits beyond which lay trouble. Interest rates near zero, for instance, were thought to risk destabilizing the banking system. And government fiscal deficits above 3% were considered so dangerous that exceeding this level was prohibited by the Maastricht treaty that…
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