Finance
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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster | Ellen Brown
Ellen BrownEllen Brown -- Web of Debt April 13, 2023 Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s ...
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The Post-Human Desert | Slavoj Žižek
Image portraying artificial intelligence. Public domain Unlike past technological innovations, artificial intelligence is not about humanity’s mastery over nature, but rather about relinquishing ...
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The Coming Doom Loop | Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel RoubiniIn the face of high and persistent inflation, recession risks, and now a looming insolvency crisis in the financial sector, central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve are facing a ...
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The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures | Raghuram G. Rajan and Viral V. Acharya
There are four reasons to worry that the latest banking crisis could be systemic. For many years, periodic bouts of quantitative easing have expanded bank balance sheets and stuffed them with more ...
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Let the Banks Burn | Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis VaroufakisThe banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least ...
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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt March 24, 2023 On CNN March 14, Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said that American banks were on the verge of being ...
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Will China Dump Its Dark Deal With America? | Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis VaroufakisA new cold war is upon us, but only China is in a position to push it beyond the point of no return. That moment will come when China’s policymakers cross the Rubicon and decide to ...
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Anatomy Of A Financial Meltdown | Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel RoubiniA vicious circle is currently underway in the United States, and its reach could broaden to the global economy Nouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Mar 13, 2023 In this February 2008 ...
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Credit Suisse Unease Sparks Fresh Selloff In World Stocks | Dhara Ranasinghe
LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - Renewed unease gripped world markets on Wednesday as news that Credit Suisse's largest investor said it could not provide the Swiss bank with more financial assistance ...
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SVB Shockwaves Rattle Global Banks In Grip Of Contagion Fears | Trevor Hunnicutt and Tom Westbrook
Contagion fears hammer global bank stocks March 14 (Reuters) -- Silicon Valley Bank's collapse pressured global bank stocks further on Tuesday as investors fretted over the financial health of some ...
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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt March 13, 2023 On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and its ...
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