Finance
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Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The 'American System' Solution | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Dec. 18, 2020 A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help ...
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Polarization increases with economic decline, becoming cripplingly contagious | Princeton University
CC0 Public Domain Dec. 11, 2020 (Phys.org) -- The rise of populist movements is changing political systems around the world. As support for these "anti-elite" movements intensifies, many are ...
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Why the Fed Needs Public Banks | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Dec. 3, 2020 The Fed’s policy tools -- interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” -- have all failed to revive local economies ...
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The Other 9/11 (and That Time I Gave a Lecture at MIT) | Mickey Z.
Photo by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 4, 2020 Preface: I’ve written (several times) about the “other 9/11” in 1973 Chile. I’ve also written once about my related MIT talk in 2003. ...
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Can a 'Warp Speed' COVID-19 Vaccine Be Safe? | Mickey Z.
YouTube screenshot Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 26, 2020 Breaking news: It’s possible to have a skeptical but productive, honest but critical, conversation about vaccines (in general) and ...
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Why Economics Says Our Civilization is Going to Collapse | umair haque
Photo: Medium We’re a Poor Civilization That Thinks It’s a Rich One — and We’re Living Way Beyond Our Means July 28, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Like it or not, economics is destiny for civilizations. ...
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Our Civilization Needs a Great Transformation | umair haque
Photo: Medium We Need Three Decades of Revolutions. But Are We Capable of It? July 25, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Any thoughtful person should understand that, at this juncture in human history, ...
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America is Having the Mother of All Social Collapses | umair haque
Photo: Medium If American Life Feels Frightening, It’s Because It’s Imploding -- In Gruesome and Catastrophic Ways July 24, 2020 (Eudaimonia and Co) -- It’s genuinely terrifying to be an American ...
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WATCH: 'Why Banking Needs to Be Run as a Public Utility' | Center for Global Justice
July 13, 2020 (Center for Global Justice) -- The current financial crisis did not begin with a virus. It began in September 2019 with the collapse of the shadow banking system, requiring a bailout ...
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Tearing Down the Idols of Colonialism | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudWhy Tunisia, Africa Must Demand French Apology Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 29, 2020 The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was ...
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Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid | Ellen Brown
June 22, 2020 (Web of Debt) -- BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to ...
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