Finance

Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work | Ellen Brown

California has more than $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking collapse of 2008. These funds, or some of them, could be transferred to an infrastructure bank that generated credit for the state -- while the funds remained safely on deposit in the ban ...

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Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising | Ellen Brown

The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150 percent of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what ...

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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...

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Nice Kids: Now March for War & Empire Control! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust March 25, 2018 If anyone channel-surfed TV yesterday, well into the evening, ALL the channels covered the massive demonstrations by our yout ...

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The War on the Post Office | Ellen Brown

Pearhead Ceramic Pink Piggy BankMarch 17, 2018 (EllenBrown.com) -- The U.S. Postal Service, under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization, needs a new source of funding ...

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End Times at the OD Corral | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 2, 2018 Personally, I believe that the plodding, implacable Robert Mueller, white knight of the Deep State, will flush the Golden ...

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Funding Infrastructure: Why China Is Running Circles Around America | Ellen Brown

‘One Belt, One Road,’ a planned modern Silk Road with China at its heart Feb. 27, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking o ...

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Three Different Definitions of Blockchain | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE

Illustration by Stephen Farrington Stephen Farrington, MS, PE -- World News Trust Jan. 26, 2018 When I began my personal deep dive into the world of distributed ledger technology, blockchain and cryp ...

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Study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops | Margaret Allen

Study area for the DFW Airport earthquake sequence. Yellow triangles are the 2008-2009 SMU operated stations. Blue asterisks are the earthquakes reported by the 2013-2016 SMU earthquake catalog, indi ...

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Capitalism is ending because it has made itself obsolete, former Greek finance minister Yannis Varoufakis says | Tom Embury-Denni

Yanis VaroufakisOct. 18, 2017 (Independent) -- Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis claims capitalism is coming to an end because it is making itself obsolete. The former economics professo ...

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Yet Another Year of Magical Thinking | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 12, 2018 A peculiar feature of the human condition is that a society in distress will call forth intellectual witch-doctors to put on a colorful show th ...

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