World’s Richest Increased their Wealth by $237 Billion in 2016

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Nick Beams

World Socialist Web Site 29 December 2016

Global Research, December 29, 2016

The world’s wealthiest 200 billionaires increased their net worth by $237 billion in 2016, taking their total wealth to $4.4 trillion as of the close of trading on Tuesday, an overall increase for the year of 5.7 percent, according to calculations by Bloomberg.

The major factor in the wealth increase is the surge in the US stock market since th

The Biggest Heist in Human History: Three Trillion Dollars Injected by the Fed into the Financial System

Source:

Mike Whitney

Global Research, October 02, 2016

CounterPunch, 30 September 2016

Here’s your economics quiz for the day:

Question 1– What do you think would happen if you put $3 trillion into the financial system?

a–Stock prices would rise

b–Stock prices would fall

c–Stock prices would stay the same

Question 2– What do you think would happen if you put $3 trillion into the economy? (Via fiscal st

Source:

Ellen Brown

Web of Debt

16 September 2016

Several central banks, including the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve, are exploring the concept of issuing their own digital currencies, using the blockchain technology developed for Bitcoin. Skeptical commentators suspect that their primary goal is to eliminate cash, setting us up for negative interest rates (we pay the bank to hold our deposits rather than the reverse).

But Ben Broadbent, Deput

Beyond the Empire of Chaos: Building Ecology into the Economy. Life Capital Value, Base and Measure

By:

Prof. John McMurtry

Global Research, April 18, 2016

Ecological and social science research increasingly demonstrate that ‘globalization’ is not what it seems. It does not produce more prosperity and reduce poverty for the world, but just the opposite. Ever more powerful transnational corporate money sequences multiply through organic, social and ecological life hosts looting and polluting them.  

Debt, Bank Bailouts and Austerity Measures. Proposal for Radical Change

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Eric Toussaint

CADTM

April 13, 2016

Global Research

April 21, 2016

Nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis that continues to produce damaging social effects through the austerity policies imposed on victim populations, it’s time to take another look at the commitments that were made at that time by bankers, financiers, politicians and regulatory bodies. Those four players have failed fundamentally in the prom

Joining the Dots: Why the Establishment Hates Donald Trump

By:

Prof. John McMurtry

Global Research, April 05, 2016

On the face of it, Trump is Reagan on steroids. His towering size, his nativist US supremacism, his down-home talk, and  his reality-show confidence make him ideal for the role of bullying and big lies from the oval office.

He is America come to meet itself in larger-than-life image to rejuvenate it as its pride slips away in third-world conditions and a multi-polar world.  

While Trump’

The Davos Blind Eye: How the Rich Eat the Poor and the World

The Big Lies

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Prof. John McMurtry

Global Research, January 24, 2016

The just-released Oxfam Davos Report which the mass media have ignored arrestingly shows that 62 individuals – 388 in 2010 – now own more wealth than 50% of the world’s population. More shockingly, it reports from its uncontested public sources that this share of wealth by half of the world’s people has collapsed by over 40% in just the last five years.

Yet the big

Do you know Where Money is Coming From?

Read the Story of Money in Cartoon Form

Source:

http://www.paulhellyerweb.com

Read the Attached Booklet to Find Out

money_cartoon.pdf

Negative Interest Rates Show “Desperation” of Central Banks

Source:

Washington's Blog

January 29,  2016

Japan has joined the EU, Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden in imposing negative interest rates. Indeed, more than a fifth of the world’s GDP is now covered by a central bank with negative interest rates.

The Wall Street Journal notes:

TOKYO—Japan’s central bank stunned the markets Friday by setting the country’s first negative interest rates, in a desperate attempt to keep the economy from sliding ba

Why Are Markets Crashing? - Peter Schiff & Mike Maloney (Part 1)

"The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living"

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2016 Market Crash Explained In 1 Chart - Mike Maloney

Published on Jan 19, 2016

Market Crash Video

Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction (WMFD)

By:

Bill Holter

Global Research, January 29, 2016

Every once in a while it is a good thing to review something we already know and have known for quite a while. What we’re talking about are derivatives and the very basics of how they work… or not.

We have seen massive volatility since the Fed raised rates last month.

The humor (tragedy), admitted to yesterday by the Fed, the 4th quarter saw slowing economies all over the world and “Nobody Really Knows Anyt

Ireland: the Tax Haven that Dare Not Speak Its Name

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Cillian Doyle

CounterPunch 12 January 2016

We’re not a tax haven, we have never been involved in any kind of tax malpractice

– Michael Noonan, Irish Minister for Finance 5th October 2015

You can read the entire article in the following link:

Ireland

Research Proposal Recommendations

Where to Position Brazil to Maximize the Synergies with the other BRICS to Bring Peace, Dignity and Prosperity to the Region and to the World

Theme:

Similarities and Differences Between the Two Most Important Analysis about the BRICS written by Pepe Escobar and Professor Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research, Canada

By: 

Enrique Suarez

Master of Education & International Development

Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

http://www.wix.com/suarezenrique/delta

USA

You can

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Will Governments Agree to Pass Massive Powers to Transnational Capital?

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Our Birmingham

16 January 2016

Roger Godsiff MP for Birmingham Hall Green, has tabled a Parliamentary Question asking whether government will reconsider support for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade deal, following the announcement that a tar sands company is suing the American Government under existing trade law after it decided against a

How Big Oil Conquered The World

A Must-See Video Documentary

 Source:

James Corbett

Global Research, January 17, 2016

Corbett Report 28 December 2015

From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world.

And this is the story of those who helped shape that world, and how the "oiligarchy" they created is on the verge

The Fracturing of the European Union

 Source:

Peter Schwarz

Global Research, December 29, 2015

World Socialist Website

It is 70 years since large parts of Europe lay in ruins. Great power aspirations, nationalism and fascism made the continent the focus of two world wars, which together claimed nearly 100 million victims. Now, these same tendencies are spreading once again.

Everywhere in Europe, the ruling elites are moving sharply to the right. They are boosting military spending, taking part in the

A Crisis Worse than ISIS? Bank “Bail-Ins” Begin…”Your Life Savings Could be Wiped out in a Massive Derivatives Collapse”.

Source:

Ellen Brown

While the mainstream media focus on ISIS extremists, a threat that has gone virtually unreported is that your life savings could be wiped out in a massive derivatives collapse. Bank bail-ins have begun in Europe, and the infrastructure is in place in the US. Poverty also kills.

At the end of November, an Italian pensioner hanged himself after his entire €100,