ER Editor: Remember, economics are not what we’re supposed to be talking about, anywhere. For most of a decade, since the financial collapse of 2008/2009, it’s been a forbidden topic, which is hardly surprising since […]
Why Sweden Ended Its Negative Interest Rate Experiment DANIEL LACALLE Negative rates are the destruction of money, an economic aberration based on the mistakes of many central banks and some of their economists, who start […]
America Escalates Its “Democratic” Oil War in the Near East MICHAEL HUDSON The mainstream media are carefully sidestepping the method behind America’s seeming madness in assassinating Islamic Revolutionary Guard general Qassim Suleimani to start the […]
Why The US Wants To Lower Germans’ Real Wages PATRICK BARRON On December 20, 2019, President Trump authorized sanctions against companies and individuals who are participating in building Nord Stream Two, a pipeline under the Baltic Sea that […]
ER Editor: We also recommend this blog piece at Return to Now by Sarah Burrows from June, 2016 for a look at how US corporations are profiting from dirt-cheap prison labor, thus taking work away […]
The Post-War ‘Consensus’ is Over – ‘Either We Reinvent Bretton Woods, or It Risks Losing Relevance’ ALASTAIR CROOKE Kevin Baron, editor of Defense One (a leading US defence publication, funded by the defence industry) explains his anxieties about NATO’s […]
U.S. Efforts to Force Iran Out of European Energy Markets Have Failed PAUL ANTONOPOULOS Despite the European Union’s attempts to save the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which saw Iran reduce its low-enriched uranium by […]
Hugo Salinas Price Explains That It Is the International Bankers Who Rule Us On the Source of Authority by Hugo Salinas Price PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS For the sake of brevity, and because this is not […]
“Floodgates Are Open” – German Banks Start Charging Retail Savers TYLER DURDEN It has been over 7 years since the European Central Bank’s key deposit facility rate was positive, and just a few weeks ago […]
Germany is the Rotten Heart of Europe TOM LUONGO The crisis in Europe will come from Germany. Germany has entered a period of political crisis that, as yet, has not exploded. But the pyre is […]
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