Economics

Dimon Suggests Billions Lost in Derivatives Fraud is Standard Banking Practices
16 May 2012

by Susanne Posel Jamie Dimon, Chairman of JPMorgan Chase is hoping that the American public will be sympathetic toward the recent $2 billion in losses that the financial firm has incurred because of their investments [...]

Windows 8 operating system will ban Firefox and Chrome
15 May 2012

A new version of the Windows 8 operating system could shut out browsers such as Firefox and Chrome, according to Mozilla. Microsoft has been saying all along that x86 apps wouldn’t run on Windows on ARM [...]

Make the Bankers Pay: Iceland, Ireland pushing back against neo-feudalism
13 May 2012

by Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Editor’s Note: For more information, please read “Farmers group wants Ireland to follow Iceland and burn the bondholders.” Across the dominion of the corporate-financiers on Wall Street and in the city of [...]

Is the U.S. Government Deliberately Suppressing Fuel Efficiency?
12 May 2012

Most people would logically believe that the U.S. government works for the citizens of America – after all, that is why we continue to pay taxes, right? The perceived good intentions of the American [...]

Corporations Descend on Africa to Securitize Natural Resources for Profit
10 May 2012

by Susanne Posel, Contributor Corporations are infiltrating Africa to profit from the land. An $11 million dollar project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Coca-Cola Corporation are employing 50,000 Kenyan and Ugandan [...]

China is becoming a gold powerhouse
09 May 2012

by Jeremy Holcombe Contributing writer for Goldco Direct and End the Lie Over the last year or so China has been quietly and independently buying gold, lots of gold. While many know that China has wanted to become a [...]

Economic Alert: If You’re Not Worried Yet…You Should Be
08 May 2012

by Brandon Smith, Contributor For the past four years I have been covering the progression of the global economic crisis with an emphasis on the debilitating effects it has had on the American financial system. Only [...]

Hundreds of Economists: Marijuana Prohibition Costs Billions, Legalization Would Earn Billions
27 April 2012

by Ezekiel Edwards & Rebecca McCray Over 300 economists, including three Nobel Laureates, recently signed a petition that encourages the president, Congress, governors and state legislatures to carefully consider marijuana legalization in America. The petition draws attention [...]

Foxes and Reptiles: Psychopathy and the Financial Meltdown
27 April 2012

by Jonathan Zap The present financial meltdown  may only be the latest example of the incalculable harm done to civilization, and countless individual lives, by psychopaths, a subspecies of Homo sapiens.  The purpose of [...]

The Next US President Will Be….
26 April 2012

  ….the Fortune 500. Why no matter who you vote for, nothing will ever change.  by Tony Cartalucci, Contributor President George Bush, President Barack Obama, and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney all work for the exact [...]

Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm
20 April 2012

by Anthony Gucciardi Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary [...]

Follow the Money: BPA Makers to Gross $8 Billion Thanks to FDA Rejecting Ban
16 April 2012

by Anthony Gucciardi Producers of toxic BPA are now boasting $8 billion in sales for 2012 thanks to the FDA rejecting a potential ban on the cancer-linked chemical on March 30th. According to GlobalData, manufacturers will produce 4.7 million metric tons of BPA this year [...]

New York Federal Reserve’s head of the markets group joins the bankster exodus, but why?
15 April 2012

by Madison Ruppert Twice now I have reported on the rash of resignations amongst top figures at financial institutions across the globe for Wake Up World (see here and here). The number is growing by the day [...]

Iran Says “Gold is Money”
26 March 2012

by Louis James Economic crises signal that the current system isn’t working as expected and needs improvement. When it comes to monetary systems, questioning their fundamentals can lead to doubts about whether the preferred medium [...]

Digital arms merchants make millions on keeping computers hackable
25 March 2012

Why would someone keep a way to make the world a safer place secret? Because keeping it unsafe is profitable. The logic works for gun-runners just as well as for hackers reportedly earning six-digit [...]