Finance
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The Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All Others | Ellen Brown
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A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in our economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to the rampant financialization of the economy, while eliminating taxes on income and sales. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt June 2, 2023 The debt ceiling crisis has again brought into focus the perennial gap between what the government spends and wha ...
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European Cities Boycott Apartheid Israel | Ramzy Baroud
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Dr. Ramzy BaroudWho Said BDS Has ‘Already Failed?' Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 4, 2023 A succession of events starting in Barcelona, Spain, in February, and followed in Liège, Belgium, and O ...
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No Respite from the Slow-Motion US-China Collision | Nouriel Roubini
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Despite U.S. efforts to de-escalate tensions with China and Chinese officials’ wariness of economic decoupling, attempting to restore trust between the two powers seems futile. In this increasingly f ...
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How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis | Ellen Brown
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Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt April 29, 2023 According to an article in American Banker titled “SEC’s Gensler Directly Links Crypto and Bank Failures,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler has asked for more financia ...
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Can BRICS Weaken the Dominance of the IMF and World Bank? | Ramzy Baroud
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Dr. Ramzy BaroudThe Rise of the South Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 16, 2023 Who would have expected that the BRICS nations could rise as the potential rival of the G7 countries, the World B ...
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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster | Ellen Brown
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Ellen BrownEllen Brown -- Web of Debt April 13, 2023 Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s gr ...
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The Post-Human Desert | Slavoj Žižek
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Image portraying artificial intelligence. Public domain Unlike past technological innovations, artificial intelligence is not about humanity’s mastery over nature, but rather about relinquishing cont ...
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The Coming Doom Loop | Nouriel Roubini
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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 tri ...
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The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures | Raghuram G. Rajan and Viral V. Acharya
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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 un ...
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Let the Banks Burn | Yanis Varoufakis
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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 no ...
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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game | Ellen Brown
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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 national ...
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