[Economic] Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Top 25 U.S. Banks Have $222 Trillion Of Exposure To Derivatives by Michael Snyder Posted July 20, 2017 The recklessness of the “too big to fail” banks almost doomed them the last time around, but apparently they still...

[Economic] Capital Punishment by Jeff Thomas Posted July 18, 2017 I project that, when the dollar collapses, paper currency itself (not those who created it) will be blamed. Government leaders will wag their collective finger at those who have subverted the good that...

[Economic] First India Bans Cash, Now It’s Targeting Gold by Jeff Paul Posted July 14, 2017 There you have it. The cashless agenda of control laid bare. There shall be no economic activity outside of State control. Cartels that play nice will be rewarded with more...

[Economic] The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families By Dean Henderson Posted July 9, 2017 The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron...

[Economic] What They Want to Hide Tells You Who They Are By Liz Ryan Murray Posted July 8, 2017 The Treasury Department has released their report on financial regulations they want to scrap. Spoiler alert: the Wall Street sharpies who Trump put in charge of our...

[Economic] SkyNet is Sentient and Will Destroy Your Investments and Pension by Cognitive Dissonance Posted June 19, 2017 If you never lose money when trading the markets, obviously the markets are rigged in your favor. But it’s all ‘legal’ so what’s the problem. Heads...

[Economic] Nobody In Power Is Paying Attention To How Close We Are To The Edge by Howard Kunstler Posted June 18, 2017 As our politicos creep deeper into a legalistic wilderness hunting for phantoms of Russian collusion, nobody pays attention to the most dangerous...

[Economic] A Mexican Town Is Giving Americans Something Donald Trump Can’t: Affordable Dental Care by John Stanton Posted June 18, 2017 Dentistry has never gotten much respect in the United States, where oral health was long seen as a cosmetic luxury rather than a...

[Economic] Why Society’s Biggest Freeloaders Are at the Top By Rutger Bregman Posted June 11, 2017 No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there. This piece is about one of the biggest taboos of our times. About a truth that is seldom acknowledged,...

[Economic] Amid Divestment Protests, More Cities Explore Public Banks By Oscar Perry Abello Posted June 9, 2017 Philadelphia City Council Member Cindy Bass was already thinking about how to cut the city’s ties with Wells Fargo when bank CEO John Stumpf testified last...

[Economic] Intra-elite Warfare: Oligarchs Succeed! Only the People Suffer! By Prof. James Petras Posted June 8, 2017 On a scale not seen since the ‘great’ world depression of the 1930’s, the US political system is experiencing sharp political attacks, divisions and...

[Economic] Twelve Reasons Why Globalization is a Huge Problem by Gail Tverberg Posted June 8, 2017 Globalization seems to be looked on as an unmitigated “good” by economists. Unfortunately, economists seem to be guided by their badly flawed models; they miss...

[Economic] The Federal Reserve Must Go By Michael Snyder Posted June 7, 2017 It isn’t by accident that we ended up 20 trillion dollars in debt. In 1913, a bill was rushed through Congress right before Christmas that was based on a plan that had been secretly developed...