Category: Economy

Today’s News 9th March 2024

Smedley Butler Explains The Latest Excuse For American Intervention In Ukraine Smedley Butler Explains The Latest Excuse For American Intervention In Ukraine Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Senior Fellow Alex Pollock drew my attention to an important quotation by Smedley Butler:  1935 speech and later a book by Major General Smedley D. …

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Today’s News 8th March 2024

Ex-Google Engineer Arrested, Charged With Stealing AI Trade Secrets For China Ex-Google Engineer Arrested, Charged With Stealing AI Trade Secrets For China Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A former Google software engineer has been indicted on charges of stealing artificial intelligence-related trade secrets while working for Chinese competitors seeking to …

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Today’s News 7th March 2024

Escobar: The Global South Converges To Multipolar Moscow Escobar: The Global South Converges To Multipolar Moscow Authored by Pepe Escobar, Here’s the key takeaway of these frantic days in Moscow: Normal-o-philes of the world, unite. These have been frantic multipolar days at the capital of the multipolar world. I had the honor to personally tell …

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Today’s News 6th March 2024

Worldwide Decline Of Freedom Outweighs Improvements Worldwide Decline Of Freedom Outweighs Improvements Democratic watchdog organization Freedom House has released its annual ranking of the world’s most free and most suppressed nations. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, the report is considered a key barometer for global democracy and this year’s edition found that global freedom has declined for …

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Today’s News 5th March 2024

Fed Bubble Ignites "Great Retirement" Wave As Baby Boomers Party Like It 1999 Fed Bubble Ignites “Great Retirement” Wave As Baby Boomers Party Like It 1999 As the Magnificent 7 tech stocks and home prices grind higher, there has been a massive surge in the number of Americans taking early retirement. Bloomberg has coined this phenomenon the “Great …

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Today’s News 4th March 2024

For Socialists, It Doesn't Matter if Socialism "Works" – What Matters Is Power For Socialists, It Doesn’t Matter if Socialism “Works” – What Matters Is Power Authored by Jason Montgomery via The Mises Institute, A recent rash of libertarian-leaning right-wing podcasters’ rehashing of a shopworn takedown of socialism has bothered me to the point of launching into …

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Today’s News 3rd March 2024

The Pipe Bombs Before Jan. 6: Capital Mystery That Doesn't Add Up The Pipe Bombs Before Jan. 6: Capital Mystery That Doesn’t Add Up Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClear Wire, The newly disclosed video shows a dark SUV pulling up to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., at 9:44 a.m. …

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Today’s News 2nd March 2024

'A Rocky Road To De-Dollarization' – Pepe Escobar Interviews Sergei Glazyev ‘A Rocky Road To De-Dollarization’ – Pepe Escobar Interviews Sergei Glazyev Authored by Pepe Escobar, Very few people in Russia and across the Global South are as qualified as Sergei Glazyev, the Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasia Economic Commission (EEC), the …

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Today’s News 1st March 2024

Obama's CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies To Spy On Trump Campaign Obama’s CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies To Spy On Trump Campaign Authored by Robert Chernin via RealClear Wire, The revelation that the U.S. intelligence community, under the Obama administration, sought the assistance of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Donald Trump’s associates before …

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Today’s News 29th February 2024

War Is Bad For You… And The Economy War Is Bad For You… And The Economy Authored by William Hartung via Counterpunch.org, Joe Biden wants you to believe that spending money on weapons is good for the economy. That tired old myth – regularly repeated by the political leaders of both parties – could help …

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