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.
The World Economy 2013: Illusions and Reality By Nick Beams, January 08, 2013
Spain’s United Left Coalition against Neoliberalism and Economic Austerity By Dick Nichols, January 08, 2013
Surviving the Fiscal Cliff: America’s Middle Class Has Been “Saved”—Or Has It? By Danny Schechter, January 07, 2013
Following the “Fiscal Cliff” Agreement, Drastic Bi-partisan Spending Cuts By Patrick Martin, January 07, 2013
France Chooses the Path of Economic Austerity By Salim Lamrani, January 06, 2013
Stagnation and Recession in America: US Jobs Report Points to an “Economy Mired in Crisis” By Barry Grey, January 05, 2013
Political Football Over Disaster Relief: Another Argument for Public Banking By Ellen Brown, January 05, 2013
Institutionalized Inequality in America: Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor By Stephen Lendman, January 04, 2013
The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollars In Offshore Banks By The Economic Collapse Blog, January 04, 2013
Latvia’s Economic Disaster Heralded as a Neoliberal “Success Story”: A Model for Europe and the US? By Jeffrey Sommers and Prof Michael Hudson, January 03, 2013
The American People are the Big Losers In The Cliff Deal By Washington's Blog, January 03, 2013
We Do not Need Giant Banks: Internet Technology Will Break Up Big Bank Monopoly? By Washington's Blog, January 02, 2013
Fiscal Cliff Over, Now the Attack on the People Begins By Kevin Zeese, January 02, 2013
What are the Benefits of Going Off “The Fiscal Cliff”? By Devon Douglas-Bowers, December 31, 2012
Responsible Fiscal Cliff Resolution By Stephen Lendman, December 31, 2012
Labour Unrest and a Slowing Economy in China: Unpaid Wages Spark Strikes By John Chan, December 30, 2012
The Secret Bailout of J. P. Morgan: How Insider Trading Looted Bear Stearns and the American Taxpayer By Ellen Brown, December 30, 2012
Obama’s Grand Charade: Say No to the Staged Dismantling of Medicare and Social Security By Margaret Flowers, December 27, 2012
The Fiscal Cliff, A Self-Created Bi-Partisan Drama. The Need to Mobilize Resistance By Kevin Zeese, December 27, 2012
It’s Not a “Fiscal Cliff” … It’s a Descent Into Lawlessness By Washington's Blog, December 26, 2012
The Lie that Prosecuting Bank Fraud Will Destabilize the Economy Is What Is REALLY Destroying the Economy By Washington's Blog, December 23, 2012
“Conspiracy Theories” vs. the Real World of Financial Crime: Bankers Face Prosecution For Conspiracy By Danny Schechter, December 23, 2012
“Christmas Present”: U.S. Senate Votes $631 Billion Military Budget By Global Research News, December 23, 2012
The Libor Swindle: Systematic Financial Rigging of the Benchmark Global Interest Rate By Andre Damon, December 22, 2012
Fiscal Cliff Reality By Stephen Lendman, December 22, 2012
Unemployment and Poverty in America: 75 Economic Numbers From 2012 that are Almost too Crazy to Believe… By The Economic Collapse Blog, December 21, 2012
Obama proposes Social Security Cuts By Patrick Martin, December 20, 2012
UBS Libor-rigging settlement exposes pervasive bank fraud By Andre Damon, December 20, 2012
Fiscal Cliff Doublespeak Duplicity By Stephen Lendman, December 19, 2012
Fiscal Cliff: Let’s Call Their Bluff! By Ellen Brown, December 19, 2012
The Mayan 2012 Prophecy: The Orwellian “End of the World” Doomsday is “Made in America” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 19, 2012
Geopolitical Dislocation and Worldwide Economic Chaos: Profiling Euroland “After the Crisis” By Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB), December 17, 2012
The Big Banks Are Criminal Enterprises By Washington's Blog, December 17, 2012
Growing Social and Wealth Inequality in America By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay, December 16, 2012
Corporate Tax Breaks and Job Creation in the U.S. By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, December 15, 2012
Destructive Macroeconomic Policy: When the “Fiscal Cliff” Hits An Iceberg… By Danny Schechter, December 15, 2012
2012 In Focus: Bankers’ Banquet, Economic Recession and the Social Crisis By Colin Todhunter, December 15, 2012
The Insufferable Human Drama of Evictions in Spain By Jérôme Roos, December 14, 2012
The Military Industrial Complex: A Capitalist System Running Amok By Rev. Richard Skaff, December 14, 2012
Deepening World Economic Crisis: US Federal Reserve expands “Quantitative Easing” By Andre Damon, December 14, 2012
Deepening Recession: Economic Austerity, Crisis and Resistance in Portugal By Mark Bergfeld, December 14, 2012
Poverty and Social Exclusion Rising in Greece By Leonidas Oikonomakis, December 13, 2012
Sweetheart Settlement for HSBC Bank on Drug Money Laundering Charges By Barry Grey, December 13, 2012
Quantitative Easing Benefits the Super Rich … And Harms The Little Guy and the American Economy By Washington's Blog, December 13, 2012
The True Costs of Empire: Garrisoning the Planet By David Vine, December 13, 2012
Eurozone Leaders Behaving like Drug Addicts and Alcoholics By Nigel Farage, December 12, 2012
Gold Sanctions on Iran As Currency Wars Escalate By Global Research News, December 12, 2012
“Japan Asian Basket Case”: 5th Recession in 15 Years By James Corbett, December 11, 2012
Towards a “Bursting Financial Bubble”? “Federal Reserve largely Responsible for Destroying the Economy” By Washington's Blog, December 11, 2012
The Political Economy of the Spanish Bank Bailout By Nick Beams, December 11, 2012
Climate Change, Economic Crisis and the Violence of War By William Blum, December 11, 2012
Beyond NAFTA: Shaping the Future of North American Integration within the Global Economy By Dana Gabriel, December 11, 2012
When Mainstream Economists Discover Karl Marx By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, December 11, 2012
Decentralize Big-Retail: How to Uproot Walmart and Bring Jobs Back Home By Tony Cartalucci, December 11, 2012
Sanctions Are Destroying Iranian Society By Mehrnaz Shahabi, December 11, 2012
War and the “Fiscal Cliff”: Economic Crisis Fuels Military Intervention in Syria By Danny Schechter, December 11, 2012
Living with Austerity: Depression Hangs over Greek Islands’ Economy By Chris Jones, December 10, 2012
“Shadow Statistics”: More Phony Employment Numbers By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 10, 2012
The “Fiscal Cliff” and the Dismantling of Medicare By Kate Randall, December 10, 2012
Ongoing Economic Slump in America: Tepid US Jobs Report By Andre Damon, December 08, 2012
Ireland: The Devastating Social Impact of Economic Austerity Measures By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, December 08, 2012
The Public Bank Option for Scotland: Ensuring Economic Sovereignty By Ellen Brown, December 07, 2012
Canada: Starving the People in Order to Feed the Banks By Rocco Galati and Michael Welch, December 07, 2012
Pearl Harbor Day Is a Day to Cherish the $1.3 Trillion We Blow on War Preparation Every Year By David Swanson, December 06, 2012
New World Order “Conspiracy Theories”: Diversions and Deceptions By Colin Todhunter, December 06, 2012
Foreigner Appointed Governor of the Bank of England By Hugo Radice, December 05, 2012
Credit Default Swaps: Evolving Financial Meltdown and Derivative Disaster Du Jour By Ellen Brown, December 05, 2012
UK Economy Falls into Double-Dip Recession By Bulent Gokay, December 04, 2012
Free Transit and Beyond By Stefan Kipfer, December 03, 2012
Our Collapsing Economy and Currency By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 02, 2012
The Cashless Society is Almost Here – And With Some Very Sinister Implications By Patrick Henningsen, November 29, 2012
US Fiscal Cliff Talks Target the Working Class By Barry Grey, November 29, 2012
Obama’s Second Term: “The Fiscal Cliff” vs. European-Style “Austerity”. Obama Follows Merkel? By Ingo Schmidt, November 29, 2012
Six Reasons the “Fiscal Cliff” is a Scam: A Mechanism for Rolling Back Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. By Prof. James K Galbraith, November 29, 2012
How Neoliberal Tax and Financial Policy Impoverishes Russia – Needlessly By Prof Michael Hudson, November 28, 2012
“Austerity”: The 1%’s Global Battle Cry By Mark Vorpahl, November 28, 2012
Lisbon On Strike: Fighting Back Against Austerity By Brandon Jourdan, November 27, 2012
The “Fiscal Cliff” Fraud By Andre Damon, November 27, 2012
Keynes’s Case Against Fiscal Policy: For Public Works and Full Employment By Alan Nasser, November 27, 2012
Big Banks Use the Shadow Banking System to Commit Massive Accounting Fraud By Washington's Blog, November 25, 2012