Grand Geopolitical Project: Russia’s Gazprom signs Agreement to Abandon the Dollar | Umberto Pascali

June 7, 2014 GlobalResearch.ca “It’s only the tip of the iceberg. A grand geopolitical project is beginning to materialize…” On June 6, 2014, the official Russian news agency Itar Tass announced what ...

This Is Not A 'Healthy Correction': The Mother Of All Financial Bubbles Is Beginning To Crack | David Stockman

April 13, 2014 (David Stockman's Contra Corner) -- Wolf Richter is one of the most astute observers of our bubble-ridden/central bank perverted financial scene around. His blog called Testosterone Pi ...

Nasdaq Halts Trading in Stocks, Options Amid ‘Issue’ | Sam Mamudi

Aug. 22, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- Computer breakdowns shook American equity markets again today as malfunctioning software that feeds data between exchanges prompted Nasdaq Stock Market to halt trading in ...

Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S. | Daniel Ellsberg

July 7, 2013 (Washington Post) -- Daniel Ellsberg is the author of “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.” He was charged in 1971 under the Espionage Act as well as for theft and cons ...

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Matt Taibbi

Illustration by Victor Juhasz April 25, 2013 ( Rolling Stone) -- Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe ...

When Zombies Invade, Who Do You Want for President? | Jeffrey Goldberg

Illustration by Ted McGrath Nov. 5, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- And so we are finally here, and not a moment too soon. Every insult has been hurled, every fact misrepresented; positions have been shifted and ...

Wall Street Rolling Back Another Key Piece of Financial Reform | Matt Taibbi

A manhole cover in Jefferson County, Alabama. Reuters/Marvin Gentry/Landov Sept. 20, 2012 (Rolling Stone) -- Wall Street lobbyists are awesome. I’m beginning to develop a begrudging respect not just ...

The Smartest Man is a Firedancer | Byron Wien

Byron WienJuly 2, 2012 (Blackstone) -- When the New Democracy party in Greece defeated the anti-bailout Syriza, I was anxious to learn what The Smartest Man in Europe thought of it all. The next day ...

U.S. Banks Aren’t Nearly Ready for Coming European Crisis | Simon Johnson

Simon JohnsonJune 24, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The euro area faces a major economic crisis, most likely a series of rolling, country-specific problems involving some combination of failing banks and sover ...

There’s Something Rotten in Banking | Bloomberg Editors

llustration by Bloomberg View Jul. 2, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- You might have missed the latest bank scandal, the one involving Barclays Plc (BARC), in the hubbub of last week’s U.S. health-care ruling an ...

The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding | Greg Palast

June 27, 2012 (Nation of Change) -- The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor -- and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it -- predicted and p ...