Nowhere is the fraudulent and criminal “oligarch recovery” more on display than in my hometown of New York City. Despite benefitting more than any other community from an enormous taxpayer bailout of the industry that destroyed the economy, financial services, the…
With little more than a lever to ham-fistedly move interest rates, the central planners are trying to keep the world’s debt-addiction well-fed while simultaneously kick-starting economic growth and managing the price levels of everything from stocks to housing to fine…
The Greek Elites and kleptocrats are terrified of the discipline that leaving the euro will impose, but the general public should welcome the transition to an economy and society that has been freed from the shackles of Imperial debt and…
In January, gold surged 8 per cent in dollar terms, 11 per cent in pound terms and a very large 16 per cent in euro terms. January’s 8.4% gain for gold in dollar terms was the best month in terms…
If it walk$ like a buck and swim$ like a buck and quack$ like a buck, why would you call it a duck? In the Economist Magazine’s age of Money As A Technology, the U.S. dollar is becoming increasingly hard…
Come on guys lets get @georgegalloway back in power we need him . George is our voice
https://t.co/qPskadxDOn pic.twitter.com/tBaKmYzQSn — Team George Galloway (@TeamGeorgeG) February 1, 2015
I was asked to give an overview of the Irish Right 2 Water campaign to a food and skills co-operative made up of largely ‘educated’ alternative types. Ready for an argument, I carted in great reams of legal documents from…
My advice is to focus not on retiring comfortably, but on working comfortably. You’ve probably seen articles and adverts discussing how much money you’ll need to “retire comfortably.” The trick of course is the definition of comfortable. The general idea…
The morphing of “terrorism” and “domestic dissent” into an all encompassing and convenient category known as “domestic terrorists” or “domestic extremists” has been a long time coming. It has always been my contention, and continues to be, that the oligarchs…
As the dollar soars, so does the real yield on bonds denominated in dollars. As central banks rush to depreciate their currencies and push yields into negative territory, what’s becoming scarce globally is real yield in an appreciating currency. Real yield…
It depresses me how quickly the Fed’s ZIRP and QE policies have re-blown price bubbles in many US housing markets. Is our collective national memory that short? How could we unlearn the lessons of the 2007 housing bust so quickly? Click…
The Greek stock market is down 36% year to date; the risk of global contagion in the event of a Greek exit is very real. Ordinarily such a crisis would require a massive coordinated effort from global stakeholders, perhaps directed…
He’s a thug, and a crook, and a liar, and a pseudo-intellectual and a murderer. Ok? Those things are factually verifiable. – From the late Christopher Hitchens’ outstanding interview: Christopher Hitchens’ Polemic Against Henry Kissinger Crazy John McCain is at it…