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The Oligarch Recovery – Low Income Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Any Metro Area
The Oligarch Recovery – Low Income Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Any Metro Area We were told we needed to bail out Wall Street in order to save Main Street. Well the results are in… Wall Street has never done better, and Main Street has never done worse. From the Huffington Post: Low-income workers and their […]
Top 10 Reasons to Read “Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense
Top 10 Reasons to Read “Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense This week marks the official publication of Post Carbon Institute’s first handbook on local investment, written by myself and Gwen Hallsmith. Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense, builds on my 2012 book on local investment, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street […]
The Pentagon Creates Partnership with Apple to Develop Wearable Tech
The Pentagon Creates Partnership with Apple to Develop Wearable Tech Last week, in the post JP Morgan Hires Recently Retired U.S. General, Raymond T. Odierno, I made the following observation: How can you ensure that the interests of TBTF Wall Street mega banks and the military-intelligence-industrial complex remain aligned? Create a revolving door of course. Of course […]
The Global Economy Is Officially Melting Down
The Global Economy Is Officially Melting Down As much as the financiers on Wall Street and the officials at the Fed would like the party to keep going, it looks it’s finally about to stop. Years of bailouts and monetary expansion have created one of the most inflated and artificial economic booms in history, and […]
We Have Already Witnessed The First 1300 Points Of The Stock Market Crash Of 2015
We Have Already Witnessed The First 1300 Points Of The Stock Market Crash Of 2015 What has been happening on Wall Street the past few days has been nothing short of stunning. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 358 points. It was the largest single day decline in a year and a half, and […]
If History Is Any Indication, Junk Bonds And Copper Are Telling Us Exactly Where Stocks Are Heading Next
If History Is Any Indication, Junk Bonds And Copper Are Telling Us Exactly Where Stocks Are Heading Next Yields on the riskiest junk bonds are absolutely soaring and the price of copper just hit a fresh six year low. To most people, those pieces of financial news are meaningless. But if you understand history, and […]
The Wall Street Ponzi At Work——The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies
The Wall Street Ponzi At Work——The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies In the nearby column Jim Quinn debunks Wall Street’s latest claim that the American consumer is bounding back. He points out that on an inflation-adjusted basis retail sales are barely higher than they were a year ago, and, for that matter, are still only 4% greater in real terms […]
Gretchen Morgenson: Wall Street Really Does Enjoy a Different Set of Rules Than the Rest of Us
Gretchen Morgenson: Wall Street Really Does Enjoy a Different Set of Rules Than the Rest of Us What type of system might work better for our interests? Gretchen Morgenson has earned a Pulitzer-winning career from exposing abuse and conflicts of interest on Wall Street. In this interview, she confirms that there is indeed a second […]
When the next crisis comes, which movements will seize the opportunity?
When the next crisis comes, which movements will seize the opportunity? You, too, could be caught in a situation where people are ready for an alternative, yet your group has none to offer. It’s understandable. We who work for change seem years away from convincing a critical mass of people that it is both stupid […]
Riskiest End of the Junk Bond Market Just Blew Up
Riskiest End of the Junk Bond Market Just Blew Up You wouldn’t know by looking at the US Treasury market, which remained relatively sanguine this week, with only a little panic buying on Tuesday. So 10-year Treasuries ended the week near where they’d started it. But at the other end of the spectrum, the riskiest […]
Ukraine fails to secure debt write-off at US talks
Ukraine fails to secure debt write-off at US talks Ukraine failed to convince its biggest creditors to significantly reduce its debt obligations during a ‘last chance’ two-day negotiation in San Francisco, California. The delegation from Kiev hoped to restructure some $19 billion in debt. The Ukrainian delegation was headed up by Illinois-born Finance Minister Natalie […]
US-NATO Military Deployments, Economic Warfare, Goldman Sachs and the Next Financial Meltdown
US-NATO Military Deployments, Economic Warfare, Goldman Sachs and the Next Financial Meltdown Is There a Relationship? What is the relationship between war in a military theater and “economic warfare”? An act of war is invariably an economic undertaking which supports dominant corporate interests. The conduct of US-NATO military operations is carried out on behalf of powerful financial […]
The Shot Not Heard Around the World
The Shot Not Heard Around the World China’s recent move to devalue the yuan has sent shock waves through the global financial markets and has convinced most observers that a new front in the global currency wars has begun. The move has caused many observes to envision a new round of competitive devaluations around the globe […]
The Great China Ponzi—-An Economic And Financial Trainwreck Which Will Rattle The World
The Great China Ponzi—-An Economic And Financial Trainwreck Which Will Rattle The World There is an economic and financial trainwreck rumbling through the world economy. Namely, the Great China Ponzi. In all of economic history there has never been anything like it. It is only a matter of time before it ends in a spectacular collapse, leaving the global […]
A Death Cross, Wild Market Swings And A Currency War – And We Haven’t Even Gotten To September Yet
A Death Cross, Wild Market Swings And A Currency War – And We Haven’t Even Gotten To September Yet Things continue to line up in textbook fashion for a major financial crisis by the end of 2015. This week, Wall Street has been buzzing about the first “death cross” that we have seen for the Dow […]
