French bankers have a nervous day ahead. They’re waiting to see whether a campaign calling on depositors to withdraw all their money will really catch on. [youtube]_W6SLWIKtL0[/youtube] It’s been organized by a former French football star against what he calls the ‘corrupt and criminal’ financial system.
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From Peter Herbert’s emails : My third book, Predator Nation is financial and economic history and ties together the 1930s and 1940s with the present. The opening and concluding chapters are book ends that tie everything together and support my thesis – the strategic aspects of the financial sector’s war […]
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“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. […]
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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….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 […]
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The award-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy is facing possible arrest in India on sedition charges after publicly advocating for Kashmir independence and challenging India’s claim that Kashmir is an “integral part of India.” If charged and convicted of sedition, Roy could face up to life in prison. . Source
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