Pressure from above and below: At the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole summit, central bankers sat down with street revolutionaries to give the impression there is popular support for their plans to raid the savings and investments of the middle classes worldwide.
The Federal Reserve's recent Jackson Hole conference provides another danger sign of planned economic havoc on the near horizon.
Despite historically low interest rates, a massive increase in the money supply, and persistent deficit spending, the U.S. economy is growing at a subnormal rate. What's behind it all?
In an article published by Inter Press Service (IPS) on August 8, Joseph Chamie — who was once the director of the United Nations Population Division — noted the increasing number of nations worldwide where there is a “demographic turning point” occurring where children in a population become fewer than its elderly.
Once a new president is installed in the White House, how is he or she likely to handle the economy?
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Brexit: Advantage, America
Written by Walter McLaughlin
Although the historic Brexit vote to leave the EU initially roiled stock markets worldwide, it may well end up benefitting the United States now and down the road.
The economy is still being force-fed a diet of easy money and low interest rates nearly 10 years after the Federal Reserve began its historic onslaught of loose monetary policy — and the economic growth that that is supposed to take place simply is not happening.
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has discovered its easier and more profitable to transfer his companies' risks to the taxpayer than to bear them himself.
Obama's promise to "change" America is being fulfilled, as the environment for business has increasingly become more hostile.
Now that he apparently has secured the nomination, Donald Trump has joined with Democrat rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in supporting an increase in the minimum wage.
A survey conducted by Harvard University indicates that a majority of Millennials do not support capitalism. While the results may be troubling, however, some contend that the Millennials’ antipathy toward capitalism is misplaced frustration at the crony capitalism, corporatism, and socialistic systems that have hijacked a once free market. Furthermore, the study’s findings may simply underscore what has already been revealed in previous surveys — that Millennials do not actually know what capitalism or socialism mean.