Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street
Robert Scheer TruthDig Welcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism. The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that corporate profits are at their highest level…
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Ireland austerity plan to cost Irish households £3,000
The average Irish household will have to pay up £3,000 in extra taxes under a four year austerity plan required as the precondition for an…
EU warns Ireland over snap election
The European Union has warned the Irish government that snap elections would be “very irresponsible” as post-bail-out turmoil continues to rock Ireland’s political establishment. Bruno…
Bernanke Calls On Congress To Help The Economy – For At Least The Fourth Time In Five Months
William Alden & Shahien Nasiripour Huffington Post NEW YORK — For at least the fourth time since June, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke publicly urged…
Obama’s Coming Sell-Out to the Super Rich and What It Means for the Rest of Us
Anthony Freda Illustration Michael Hudson CounterPunch Now that President Obama is almost celebrating his bipartisan willingness to renew the tax cuts for the super-rich enacted…
Europe stumbles blindly towards its ‘Great Depression’ moment
It is the European Central Bank that should be printing money on a mass scale to purchase government debt, not the US Federal Reserve. Ambrose-Evans…
IMF expert warns Ireland to ‘seek bailout now’
Harry Leech and Nick Webb Indepedndent A FORMER chief economist at the IMF has warned that Brian Lenihan must immediately ask the IMF for a…
Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush Catherine Austin Fitts blows the whistle on how the financial terrorists…
Want to get away with murder? Become a Bank
Allan Sloan Fortune The biggest danger to the U.S. capitalist system doesn’t come from communists or community activists or left-wing academics. It comes from some…
Treasury Hides $300B Back-door Bailout to Citibank
Bob Ivry Bloomberg The late Bloomberg News reporter Mark Pittman asked the U.S. Treasury in January 2009 to identify $301 billion of securities owned by…
Depression Within a Depression
John Maynard Keynes James Quinn, Contributor The Casey Report Regular Casey Report contributor James Quinn is the head of strategic planning for one of the…
Will the Federal Reserve Cause a Civil War?
Dees Illustration Stephen Gandel Time What is the most likely cause today of civil unrest? Immigration. Gay Marriage. Abortion. The Results of Election Day. The…
In throes of recession, D.C. stands apart
Federal spending insulates region Patrice Hill — The Washington Times Throughout the recession, one major city stood out as an oasis for jobs and growth:…
Gerald Celente: ‘The sell-off of America’
YouTube – RT America Financial institutions on Wall Street are preparing to pay a shocking record $144 billion dollars in compensation & benefits. This amid…