Battered, bruised and jumpy — the whole world is on edge
FT | Not one world power is optimistic and even in America, which should be cheering, the mood is sour.
FT | Not one world power is optimistic and even in America, which should be cheering, the mood is sour.
Hundreds of Dallas homeless will spend Christmas Eve like Cinderella at the ball.
London Guardian | Utrecht takes step towards paying people a salary whether they work or not.
NY Times | Parishioners text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers.
Michael Krieger | BuzzFeed News has just published a hard-hitting, extremely sickening investigative report which shines further light on the shady and unethical practices of Warren Buffett.
Market Watch | Americans are living right on the edge — at least when it comes to financial planning.
Alt Market | There is one predominant reality that must be understood before a person can grasp the nature of the Federal Reserve.
Campus Reform | An economics professor at the University of California, Irvine estimates that state and local minimum wage increases have cost up to 200,000 jobs since the Great Recession.
Zero Hedge | Despite every effort by The Fed to convince the world that everything is awesome, it’s not.
Zero Hedge | The takeaway here is that the Saudi gambit failed to wrench market share away from the Russians.
New American | Each Christmas season, the American people showcase their generosity with incredible stories of charity and giving.
Charles Hugh-Smith | The injustice of central-bank enforced neofeudalism cannot be suppressed like interest rates.
Bloomberg | The average price of gasoline at the pump has dropped below $2 a gallon for the first time in more than six years as global oil supply continues to surge.
Reuters | Brent crude prices hit their lowest in over 11 years on Monday, hounded by a relentless rise in global supply that looks set to outpace demand again next year.
Michael Krieger | This represents a primary driver in the transformation of the American economy into a neo-feual wasteland of broke debt serfs.