“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” – Mark Twain The story has become the stuff of legend. Years ago, an informal group of free-market oriented civil servants, politicians, economists, and “in the know” media types, gathered periodically for beery conversation at the Dublin pub of Doheny & Nesbitts. […]
Economics
Today global wealth is more highly concentrated in the hands of the elite than it ever has been at any other point in modern history. Once upon a time, the vast majority of the people in the world knew how to grow their own food, raise their own animals and […]
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Source: https://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/flashback-wikileaks-chief-5gb-dirt-bank-america/ In an interview published Monday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange revealed that his whistleblower website intends to publish a trove of secret documents exposing the corruption of a major American bank. He declined to say which bank, but he offered what may be a telling hint last year as […]
….In a recent article titled “What Do Banks Do?,” which appeared in a collection of essays devoted to the future of finance, Turner pointed out that although certain financial activities were genuinely valuable, others generated revenues and profits without delivering anything of real worth —payments that economists refer to as […]
The Truth leaks out … THE BANKS ARE ROBBING YOU AND ARE IN FACT BANKRUPT !
[ Noam has read thousands of books (you probably haven’t) Noam has written dozens and dozens of books (you probably haven’t) Noam is a global grade linguist (you probably aren’t) Noam is a world reknown scholar and political activist (you probably don’t wanna hear about it)) Noam is one of […]
Source: tumeke.blogspot.com Fonterra commits Facebook suicide Greenpeace says Fonterra has committed Facebook suicide because it was unable to answer questions posted on the site about its palm kernel feed. But Fonterra has countered “they’ve never had an official Facebook page” and it doesn’t know who was running the one that was […]
From the burgeoning popularity of farmers’ markets and co-operatives to the revitalisation of community banking, people are organising to reclaim the economy from large profit-driven corporations and ‘too big to fail’ financial institutions. The small-scale and diversity of these local initiatives masks the immense potential they hold for addressing fundamental […]