Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition… Read More Bolivian Coup Led by Christian Fascist and Paramilitary Leader — With Foreign Support
The exceedingly wealthy are usually content to stay in the shadows while their combined financial leverage and media power keep top government officials more or less in line. But the grassroots strengths of the Warren and Sanders campaigns have jolted some key oligarchs into overt action.… Read More The Billionaire Class Won’t Go Quietly
There is a very substantive argument against Dimon being a patriot and a very persuasive argument that he’s a crime boss sitting atop a federally-insured bank backstopped by the U.S. taxpayer that has scooped up $1.6 trillion in deposits from honest folks across America… Read More Is JPM Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon a Patriot (As He Claims) or An Orgazinized Crime Boss?
Those who curated the story – the narrative – of the Syrian war, got it all wrong from the start… Read More How the Syrian Democratic Forces Were Suddenly Transformed into “Kurdish Forces”
After peak negative-yield-absurdity in August, bond prices fell – the “bond bloodbath” – and the mountain of bonds with negative yields has plunged by $5 Trillion, or by 30%, despite rate cuts.… Read More Negative Yielding Bonds Turn into Punishment Bonds
Order comes after Supreme Court ruling ending the mandatory imprisonment of convicts after they lose their first appeal… Read More How Big Tech Is Dragging Us Towards the Next Financial Crash
In addition to the unprecedented financial power that the New York Fed has amassed, it has a strange, cosy and unexplained relationship with JPMorgan Chase… Read More Dangerous Liaisons: New York Fed and JPMorgan’s Incestuous Relationship
In the absence of some sort of national industrial strategy, how do Western societies retain a viable middle class?… Read More ‘Free Markets’ Will Be the End of the Middle Class
The Fed is in deep fear, while also in deep denial, about what happened last December… Read More The Fed’s Wall Street Bailout May Go into Overdrive in December
Shades of 2007–2008?… Read More Modern Central Banking Is More Vulnerable Than We Think
The plutocrat-owned narrative managers of the political/media class work constantly to shrink the Overton window, the spectrum of debate that is considered socially acceptable… Read More The Incredible Shrinking Overton Window
If the Fed isn’t seeing large imbalances, it’s simply because it isn’t looking or is consciously choosing to stick its head in the sand… Read More These Charts Hold a Big Clue to the Liquidity Squeeze on Wall Street
