Draghi’s departure will mark the beginning of the 2020 euro crisis GEFIRA In 2015, the European Central Bank began printing money. Since then, its balance sheet total has risen to 4.4 trillion euros (5.3 trillion […]
Sunday’s Athens Rally a Moment of Truth for Greeks under Thumb of EU-Imposed Austerity The austerity measures, privatizations, salary and pension cuts, and all of the other measures implemented during the years during which the […]
Two-Thirds Of UK Pension Funds Are In The Red – $300 Billion Shortfall Revealed TYLER DURDEN Sir Steve Webb, a former pensions minister under the recent coalition government, said Carillion would not be the last […]
Economic Collapse: Will Cryptocurrency Save the Financial System? FEDERICO PIERACCINI In the second article of my three part series, I addressed how we got to the current state of this financial chaos. In this last article, I explain […]
Economic Collapse and Dollar Hegemony – How Did This Start? FEDERICO PIERACCINI In the previous article I explained why bitcoin should be considered a reaction to US dollar hegemony and how other nations and central banks are […]
Is Germany Catching Trump’s Tax Disease? The fiscal policies proposed by Germany’s emerging grand coalition government look very American. Like the US Republicans’ recent tax legislation, they are likely to bring limited short-term benefits to […]
The Refugee Dilemma–Germany Plays Economic Chicken with Central Europe F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL The German social democrat and conservative parties have finally agreed in a rotten compromise to form yet another not-so-grand coalition with the increasingly […]
Greece – Convenient Victim or Complacent Masochist? The Devastating Social Impacts of IMF-ECB-EC “Economic Medicine” PETER KOENIG Why this title? – Because Greece doesn’t have to continue playing the card of the victim, nor being […]
Euro – a disaster – failed monetary unions past and present A glance at history. The beginnings of monetary union can be traced back to attempts to unify the coin standard. Emperor Augustus successfully unified […]
Trump, Macron: same fight THOMAS PIKETTY It is customary to contrast Trump and Macron: on one hand the vulgar American businessman with his xenophobic tweets and global warming scepticism; and on the other, the well-educated, […]
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