Category: Economy

Government Corruption Tops List of Americans’ Fears Time reports: Corruption of government officials is currently Americans’ number one fear, according to a recent survey by researchers at Chapman University.   The researchers asked a random sample of 1,541 adults to rate the level of fear for 88 different fear options across a variety of domains …

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Democratic Debate Post Mortem (In 1 Poignant Image) Sanders by a landslide… In the Polls.. Drudge… CNN…   In Searches… .@BernieSanders leads @HillaryClinton in @google search interest since the start of the #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/VmJzL3eNwK — Google Politics (@googlepolitics) October 14, 2015   And On Twitter… Who’s gained the most Twitter followers since #DemDebate started: · …

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The Rise of the Sharing Economy Everyday I hear new stories of friends and family offering rides through Uber, renting out rooms in their home on AirBnB, Uber or selling product on Framestr. while it’s a fairly new way of making money, it’s here to stay. There are obvious changes in consumer practices and an …

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America Has REPEATEDLY Committed War Crimes By Bombing Civilians The U.S. criticized Russia for killing civilians in Syria. But just last week, the U.S. intentionally bombed one of the only hospitals in Northeastern Afghanistan (run by Nobel prize-winner Doctors Without Borders), killing hundreds.  This occurred 3 months after U.S.-backed Afghani special forces raided and threatened …

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The Tragic Ending To Obama's Bay Of Pigs: CIA Hands Over Syria To Russia One week ago, when summarizing the current state of play in Syria, we said that for Obama, “this is shaping up to be the most spectacular US foreign policy debacle since Vietnam.” Yesterday, in tacit confirmation of this assessment, the Obama …

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The Deep State: Source Of All Negativity Submitted by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, I’d like to address some aspects of the Greater Depression in this essay. I’m here to tell you that the inevitable became reality in 2008. We’ve had an interlude over the last few years financed by trillions of new currency units. However, …

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Dollar Demolition Extends To 6th Day As EM/Asian FX Soars Most In Over 6 Years As the odds of a Fed rate-hike this century drift asymptotically back towards zero, the stability-desirous central bankers of the emerging world are suddenly facing soaring currencies as hot money floods back into Emerging Asian markets. The Rupiah and Ringgit …

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Syrian Crisis: What Will Happen Next? Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The Syrian crisis and the confluence of clashing interests there was entirely predictable. In fact, I wrote an article on my former website in 2010 outlining the potential for Syria as a high value catalyst for global conflict titled “Will Globalists Trigger Yet …

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Commodity Trading Giants Unleash Liquidity Scramble, Issue Record Amounts Of Secured Debt Earlier today, in its latest attempt to restore confidence in its brand and business model after suffering a historic stock price collapse, Glencore – whose CDS recently blew out to a level implying a 50% probability of default – released a 4 page …

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World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Forced To Begin Liquidating Assets One of the biggest stories of this summer, as previewed originally here in November of 2014, has been the dramatic shift in the direction of capital flow from toward emerging markets (and China), to away from emerging markets (and China). The reason for this …

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