Brace Yourself: Here Comes The Trump-Sponsored Carbon Market
If the first week of the Trump administration is any guide, Technocracy is set to gain more ground during the next four years than it…
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Unaffordable Housing and Homeless Encampments: How Did It Get This Bad?
By Charles Hugh Smith To reverse the damage wrought by financialization, we must reverse financialization. The post-election hope that festering problems can now be solved…
The “Financial Coup” That Seized America
By Peter St. Onge In the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, former chief economist of the IMF Simon Johnson warned that the same dysfunctional…
The Wall Street Takeover: How Corporate Landlords Are Reshaping America’s Housing Market
By Study Finds In the wake of the Great Recession, a new breed of landlords has emerged: corporate investors. These Wall Street-backed entities have been…
Cyber ‘Catastrophe Bonds’ Gain Traction Among Investors As Hack Attacks Soar
By Tyler Durden Beazley Plc, a leading European and US specialist insurer, issued the market’s first cyber catastrophe (CAT) bonds earlier this year. The insurer…
Ex-Pfizer Employee Charged With Insider Trading After 2,400% Gain On Covid Drug News
By Tyler Durden A former Pfizer employee was charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission after booking gains of 2,458% buying out-of-the-money…
SEC Pays Out Monster $279 Million Whistleblower Award
By Tyler Durden We guess you can forget the old adage from your childhood that “no one likes a tattle-tale”. Because when you tattle to…
Blackstone Defaults On $562MM CMBS As It Keeps Blocking Investor Withdrawals From $71BN REIT
By Tyler Durden Now that soaring rates have burst the commercial real estate bubble, the carnage is coming fast and furious. This morning Bloomberg reports…
Anti-Gold Bias: The Big Secret Wall Street DOESN’T Want You to Know
By Stefan Gleason Last year was one of the worst on record for a conventional stock and bond portfolio. The major stock and bond market…
Bad News Is Good News – Wall Street Greatly Celebrates The Latest Economic And Financial Disasters
By Michael Snyder Sometimes I think that we truly are living in Bizarro World. We just witnessed one of the most horrible financial disasters in…
This Tsunami Of Tech Layoffs Could Soon Be The Largest We Have Ever Seen
By Michael Snyder This is starting to look like 2008 all over again. For years, the tech industry was the strongest part of the U.S….
19 Attorneys General To Investigate Six Wall Street Firms Over ESG Investing
The WEF/United Nations’ ESG investing scam is now officially on notice that all practitioners, banks, insurance companies, rating services, etc., will be held accountable. ESG…
Who Is Behind the Economic Collapse?
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Story at-a-glance The PBS Frontline documentary The Untouchables, which originally aired in 2013, investigates the cause of the 2007-2009 financial crisis,…
The Markets Are Rigged
By The Corbett Report At base, the markets are a con game where the rich and powerful employ a raft of confidence men to lure…