The Corporatocracy: Bailouts Serve The Creditors; Enslave the Debtors (John Perkins)

The corporatocracy -- Bailouts Serve the Creditors; Enslave the Debtors Aug. 5, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- As I write this, I am watching the economic chaos in Greece. I’m sure we’re all sh ...

America In Decline (Noam Chomsky)

Aug. 6, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- “It is a common theme,” that of the United States -- which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and ...

Fed to Keep U.S. Interest Rates at Record Lows (Jeannine Aversa and Scott Lanman)

Aug. 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve pledged for the first time to keep its benchmark interest rate at a record low at least through mid-2013 to revive a recovery that’s “considerably slow ...

Sharp Fall In Consumer Spending, Manufacturing In U.S. (Andre Damon)

Aug. 3, 2011 (WSWS) -- Economic data released this week provides further evidence that economic growth in the United States has virtually come to a halt. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that ...

The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression (John Atcheson)

Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Since Reagan, Republicans have been on a “starve the beast” campaign -- by which they mean eviscerate the government by taking away as much revenue as they can. Sta ...

America In Collapse (Leon Fisher)

Aug. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- America is in the throes of collapse and the corporate controlled mass media is attempting to shift the blame to labor unions, senior citizens and the dis ...

Gerald Celente: 'Economic Martial Law Will Be Declared' (Mac Slavo)

Aug. 1, 2011 (SHTFplan.com) -- In his latest quarterly Trends Journal (Summer 2011), Gerald Celente provides us another “history of the future,” in which he discusses global economic, monetary, and p ...

Economy Close to Stall Speed May Signal Renewed U.S. Recession (Peter Coy)

Aug. 3, 20111 (Bloomberg) -- Economics isn’t rocket science, but the U.S. economy is a little like a rocket. If it has enough thrust, it can escape the tug of economic gravity. Not enough, and it jus ...

An Economy Destroyed: The Enemy Is Washington (Paul Craig Roberts)

July 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade U.S. Treasury bonds if the White House and Congres ...

Dante’s Slope (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 17, 2011 -- I have been at loose ends now for two, could it be going on three years? Without a phone or an address to call my own, I have access to these thin ...

How the bubble destroyed the middle class (Rex Nutting)

Commentary: Sluggish growth is no mystery: No one has any money July 8, 2011 (MarketWatch) -- A lot of people say they are deeply puzzled by the slow recovery in the U.S. economy. They look at the 9+ ...