Facing Budget Gaps, Cities Sell Assets
Ianthe Jeanne Dugan Wall Street Journal Cities and states across the nation are selling and leasing everything from airports to zoos—a fire sale that could…
Economy
Fed Seeks Delay of Bank Data Release While Considering Appeal
Bob Ivry & David Glovin Bloomberg The Federal Reserve Board sought to delay the court-ordered release of documents identifying banks that might have failed without…
Third World America: ‘Fast-Tracking to Anarchy’
American Slums (Detroit) Janet Tavakoli Huffington Post My last post about Arianna Huffington’s new book, Third World America: How Our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle…
Interbank tension surfaces as global worries weigh
* Bank borrowing from ECB increases, average maturity up * Widening gap between overnight and 3-month rates * Swap rates tumble as longer-dated bonds markets…
10 Practical Steps To Insulate Yourself From The Coming Economic Collapse
The Economic Collapse Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that this “recession” will end and that the “good times” will return soon, but…
Orwellian DoubleThink: Welfare is Employment
DoubleThink Series, part 1 Activist Post We couldn’t end the wars and bring all of the personnel home to a nation whose unemployment rate is already busting…
Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg
Jeff Cox CNBC Positive gross domestic product readings and other mildly hopeful signs are masking an ugly truth: The US economy is in a 1930s-style…
Here Comes the Global Currency “Conspiracy” — Now Confirmed
Bancor: The Name Of The Global Currency That A Shocking IMF Report Is Proposing Editor’s Note: The Bancor was the currency of choice in G….
All Checks, No Balances: Campaign Finance Sells Out
Thanks to the Supreme Court, corporations are free to spend whatever they want on elections. They just don’t want to be seen doing it. Peter…
Banks Siding Against the Customer in Fraud Cases
Naomi Wolf Huffington Post Like most consumers, I had always assumed that banks and customers are united in wanting to curtail bank fraud. Unfortunately, I…
CEOs Blame Consumer Class for Joblessness: Admit Economy Grows From Bottom Up
Eric Blair Activist Post The economic debate has been going on for decades: if only we give more money to the wealthy Elite, they will…
Economic Collapse Hits the Super Mainstream — Tony Robbins Issues Warning (VIDEO)
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A Vision For State-Owned Banking in Wisconsin
David Redick Activist Post State-owned banks are finally being seen as a step in the right direction away from dependency on, and control by, the Federal…
U.S. Middle Class Vanishing
Press TV The American middle class is on the verge of disappearing, while the United States, itself, is in danger of becoming a third world…