Global Economy

“Covid Tolerance Zero” has contributed to destabilizing Shanghai’s financial sector as well as China's buoyant export economy. It has created social havoc for millions of people. The Chinese Government has now acknowledged that is was based on fake science.
The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of “net zero carbon” by 2050. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, are setting the stage for creation of what is called the New Word Order. In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse.
America has the greatest inequalities, highest mortality rate, most regressive taxes, and largest public subsidies for bankers and billionaires of any developed capitalist country. One of the most likely sources of billionaire wealth is through tax evasion in all of its guises and forms.
For more than 12 years the WEF has pushed a corporate model in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The “big target” has been India, where resistance to corporate takeover of agriculture has been fierce ever since the failed 1960’s Green Revolution of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Austria: A 54% “Haircut” Of Senior Creditors In First “Bail In” Under New EU Rules By Zero Hedge, April 14, 2016
IMF Downgrades Growth Projections, Warns Of “Synchronized Slowdown” By Barry Grey, April 13, 2016
Neoliberalism’s World of Corruption: Money Laundering, Corporate Lobbying, Drug Money… By Phil Hearse, April 12, 2016
Free Trade Agreements, Tariffs and Tax Reductions: “Squeezing the Lemon Dry” on Behalf of Giant Corporations By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, April 12, 2016
Investigating the Banksters: The Australian Banking Industry By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 12, 2016
Who is Voting for Trump and Why? Pew Research Council Explains By Mike Whitney, April 11, 2016
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Venezuela: Records Low Unemployment Rate during Chavez Presidency By Edu Montesanti, April 11, 2016
The War on Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless By Ellen Brown, April 11, 2016
Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific “Partnerships”: Complete Corporate World Takeover By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 10, 2016
Peru Elections 2016: The Story of a Coup d’État Foretold? By Peter Koenig, April 10, 2016
Where are Marx and Lenin When We Need Them? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 10, 2016
Capitalism And Global Agribusiness: From Ford To Monsanto, “It’s For Your Own Good” By Colin Todhunter, April 10, 2016
Lithium-ion Batteries: Tech Boom Fueled By 40,000 Congolese Child Miners By Mnar Muhawesh, April 08, 2016
U.S. Government Accounting Is Fraudulent By Washington's Blog, April 08, 2016
The Death of Steel. The Bankruptcy of Steel Manufacturing By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 08, 2016
The ‘Panama Papers’ and ‘Regime Change’: Who is Behind ‘The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ (ICIJ)? By Timothy Alexander Guzman, April 08, 2016
Black Tulips for Ukraine: Netherlands Says “No” to EU-Ukraine Association Agreement By Josh Vanlee, April 07, 2016
Going against the Anti-Russian EU Sanctions Regime: Austria Wants Closer Relationship With Russia By Alex Gorka, April 07, 2016
“It’s Coming Apart at the Seams” – US Equities Plunge as Deutsche-Lehman Analog Looms By Zero Hedge, April 07, 2016
Deutsche Bank Is Crashing Again as European Banks Slide to Crisis Lows By Zero Hedge, April 07, 2016
“Fair Trade” versus “Unequal Trade”. The Markets for Coffee, Bananas and Wheat By Prof. Gavin Fridell, April 07, 2016
Clash of the Ignobles: The IMF, the European Commission and the Greek Bailout Saga By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 07, 2016
Tax Havens: Minority Heaven, Majority Hell By Frank Scott, April 07, 2016
Iceland Prime Minister has not Resigned, Press Release to International Media By Iceland Monitor, April 07, 2016
Europe – Are the EU and Euro on the Verge of Collapse? By Peter Koenig, April 07, 2016
Panama Tax Haven Scandal: The Bigger Picture By Washington's Blog, April 06, 2016
Hedge Funds Are Part of a Tricky Money Maneuver to Put Hillary in the White House By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, April 06, 2016
Clinton Opposes Transferring Government Costs Onto Rich People By Eric Zuesse, April 06, 2016
Western Sahara: Another Misinformed Imperial Analysis By Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion, April 06, 2016
Clinton Supported and Enabled Tax Evasion Revealed By the “Panama Papers” … Sanders OPPOSED It By Washington's Blog, April 06, 2016
Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation By Asad Ismi, April 06, 2016
BBC Bias, Brexit, the EU, Bilderberg and Global Government By Steven MacMillan, April 06, 2016
The “Gig Economy”: Another Vicious Attack on Ordinary Working People, Decimating the Middle Class By Mike Whitney, April 06, 2016
Why are Russia and China Buying Gold, Tons of it? By F. William Engdahl, April 06, 2016
Are “Panama Papers” an Act of Destabilization by Western Powers? By Brandon Turbeville, April 06, 2016
Global Military Spending Increased in 2015 By Thomas Gaist, April 06, 2016
History of the Panama Papers: Offshore Banking Havens: Hidden Agenda behind the 2013 Operation “Offshore Leaks”? By Valentin Katasonov and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 05, 2016
Trillions Stashed in Offshore Tax Havens By Stephen Lendman, April 05, 2016
Secret Offshore Money: Fabricated Putin Link to Leaked Panama Papers By Stephen Lendman, April 05, 2016
IMF Report Points to Sources of Increasing Financial Turbulence By Nick Beams, April 05, 2016
Selective Leaks Of The #Panama Papers Create Huge Blackmail Potential. “Smear People the U.S. Dislikes” By Moon of Alabama, April 05, 2016
An IMF Plot, Greece, EU And BREXIT By Jon Kofas, April 05, 2016
President Poroshenko’s Offshore Tax Haven: Ukraine’s Largest Candy Business Moved to the British Virgin Islands By Anna Babinets and Vlad Lavrov, April 04, 2016
Financial Oversight and Colonialism in Puerto Rico By Matt Peppe, April 04, 2016
IMF’s Christine Lagarde: “When The World Goes Downhill, We Thrive” By Zero Hedge, April 03, 2016
From Adolf Hitler to George W. Bush: US Capitalism’s Unbroken Link By William Bowles, April 03, 2016
Credit Suisse on the Brink of the Abyss By FRCS, April 02, 2016
Neoliberal Economists Attack Bernie Sanders By Dr. Jack Rasmus, April 01, 2016
Poverty and Social Inequality in Canada: The Debate on Basic Income and Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI) By John Clarke, April 01, 2016
Expensive Weapons of Mass Destruction: As Saudi and Allies Bombard Yemen, US Clocks up $33 Billion Arms Sales in Eleven Months By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 01, 2016
The Winds of a New Economic Recession Gather Force in the United States By Ariel Noyola Rodríguez, April 01, 2016
Images: Libya's so-called freedom-fighting "moderates" literally just repainted their trucks after NATO's 2011 intervention, becoming ISIS' Libyan branch. The US now finds itself justifying yet another military intervention in Libya to fight the very terrorists it helped arm and put into power in 2011.
Five Years into the Libyan Disaster By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 31, 2016
A Conspiracy to Keep Wages from Rising. Is This Class Warfare? By Mike Whitney, March 30, 2016
Al Qaeda and the Money Trail: Surviving on the Battlefield in the Information War By Tony Cartalucci, March 29, 2016
New $25 Million Fraud on Wall Street Is Making Some Rich Guys Nervous By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, March 29, 2016
Japanese Economy Continues to Show Signs of Faltering By Ben McGrath, March 29, 2016
Global Financial Crisis: Blaming Hackers Coming to a Bank Account Near You to Steal Your Life Savings By Joachim Hagopian, March 27, 2016
The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy By Prof Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges, March 27, 2016
Iran’s “Open-Door” Economic Policy: Recipe for Indebtedness, Deindustrialization and Dependence By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, March 26, 2016
UN Group Rejects US Sanctions Against Venezuela By Telesur, March 25, 2016
The Chinese Government’s Phony Anti-poverty Plan By John Ward, March 25, 2016
“Controlled Chaos” as an Instrument of Geopolitical Warfare and “Color Revolutions” By Dr. Vladimir Prav, March 24, 2016
NAFTA and Obama’s Proposed ‘Trade’ Deals Are Unconstitutional By Eric Zuesse, March 24, 2016
The Fiction of U.S. Economic Recovery. Can You Figure Out What This Chart Means? By Mike Whitney, March 23, 2016
Greece and the “SYRIZA Experience”: Lessons and Adaptations By Andreas Karitzis, March 23, 2016
Economic Crisis in America: Entire Regions of US Will Remain in Recession until the 2020s. Study By Jerry White, March 21, 2016
Money, Weapons and Poverty in America By Michael T. Bucci, March 20, 2016
UK Government Announces Decision to “Privatise” All State Schools in England By James Wright, March 19, 2016
Subprime Auto Loans: The next Shoe to Drop? By Mike Whitney, March 18, 2016
The Mega-Regional Trade Agreements (TTP, TTIP) vs. Bilateral Investment Treaties By Kavaljit Singh, March 17, 2016
Fukushima: Japan’s “National Resilience” and The Legacy of 3-11 By Andrew Dewit, March 17, 2016
Brexit versus Grexit: Hypocrisies in the European Financial Project By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 17, 2016
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US Federal Reserve Aligns Itself Closer to Market Demands By Nick Beams, March 17, 2016
“Free Speech Zones”, the Rigged Economy and Organized Crime By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, March 16, 2016
European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi’s Giant Giveaway; More Handouts for Wall Street By Mike Whitney, March 15, 2016
Millions Join Protests in Brazil Demanding Ouster of Workers Party Government By Bill Van Auken, March 15, 2016
Assets and Liabilities… And “Debt Saturation” By Bill Holter, March 15, 2016
Feeding the Bank Balance or Feeding the World: GMOs, Development and the Politics of Unhappiness By Colin Todhunter, March 15, 2016
Can Europe Survive? The EU’s Horses of the Apocalypse By Roberto Savio, March 14, 2016
Money, Power and Oil. Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails By Ellen Brown, March 14, 2016