The recent member vote conducted by progressive organization MoveOn.org is downright devastating for Hillary Clinton. The numbers speak for themselves, and demonstrate in no uncertain terms that Hillary Clinton has absolutely zero grassroots support. There isn’t a person in this country who is

The 1979 film The China Syndrome took its name from the darkly humorous notion that a nuclear reactor meltdown in the U.S. would burn straight through the Earth to China. (wikipedia: The China Syndrome) In today’s world, the financial meltdown in

Love Bernie Sanders or hate Bernie Sanders, he is indisputably a very different human being compared to Hillary Clinton. There’s simply no overlap between the two when it comes to donors, and you don’t need to be a brain surgeon

A number of systemic, structural forces are intersecting in 2016. One is the failure of high finance to fix the global economy’s systemic problems. The operative conceit of the past 7 years has been that high finance can fix whatever’s

We discuss central bank insiders admitting market rigging on television, confusing those who had bought the propaganda about Fed power to end boom and bust cycles. In the second half, Max interviews Dan Collins of TheChinaMoneyReport.com about the convergence of

A number of systemic, structural forces are intersecting in 2016. One is the end-game of debt-fueled “growth.” We can summarize the official “solution” to the Global Financial Meltdown of 2008 in one line: borrow and blow trillions–of yen, yuan, dollars,

Since Bitcoins are not presently considered to be a currency, the normal barter rules apply – just as if the taxpayer was exchanging goods and services for property, such as gold bullion. Thus, if a taxpayer received Bitcoins in exchange

One of the most pernicious financial schemes of the post crisis era relates to a practice most Americans are entirely in the dark about, but may end up harming retirement plans down the line. I refer to the pervasive, incestuous and shady

A number of systemic, structural forces are intersecting in 2016. One is the hollowing out of democracy globally. Democracy has three distinct states of being: formal, in actual practice and informal. Nations that claim the mantle of democracy typically mix

For several years now, I’ve periodically observed that China’s increasingly aggressive crackdown on dissent serves as a harbinger of far more difficult times ahead. The thinking goes that if anyone is privy to the severe fragility of the country’s economic situation, it would be Chinese leadership. As such, desperate