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The Post-Human Desert | Slavoj Žižek
Image portraying artificial intelligence. Public domain Unlike past technological innovations, artificial intelligence is not about humanity’s mastery over nature, but rather about relinquishing ...
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Lying about Lying: Why We Must Revisit the Definition of ‘Fake News’ | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 3, 2023 The phrase "fake news" continues to be deployed routinely in U.S. politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and ...
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The Coming Doom Loop | Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel RoubiniIn the face of high and persistent inflation, recession risks, and now a looming insolvency crisis in the financial sector, central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve are facing a ...
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The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures | Raghuram G. Rajan and Viral V. Acharya
There are four reasons to worry that the latest banking crisis could be systemic. For many years, periodic bouts of quantitative easing have expanded bank balance sheets and stuffed them with more ...
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Let the Banks Burn | Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis VaroufakisThe banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least ...
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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt March 24, 2023 On CNN March 14, Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said that American banks were on the verge of being ...
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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt March 13, 2023 On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and its ...
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Analysis: Silicon Valley Bank's Fall Widens Systemic Cracks As Cheap Money Vanishes | David Randall And Davide Barbuscia
NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - Cracks are appearing in the global financial system as the decade-long era of cheap money ends, with some investors worrying the shock collapse of Silicon Valley Bank ...
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What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? | Ellen Brown
Bank runs, bail-ins and systemic risk Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Feb. 25, 3023 Financial podcasts have been featuring ominous headlines lately along the lines of “Your Bank Can Legally Seize Your ...
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Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way | Ellen Brown
Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Jan. 20, 2023 On Friday, Jan. 13, Treasury SecretaryJanet Yellen wrote to ...
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Why is Israel Amending Its Open-Fire Policy?: Three Possible Answers | Ramzy Baroud
Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. (Photo: UNRWA) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 29, 2021 At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West ...
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