“Worse Than 2008” World Trade Collapses To 10 Year Lows
Submitted by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com, This wasn’t part of the rosy scenario. The Merchandise World Trade Monitor by the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, a division of…
Read moreEaster Weekend At Bernie’s
While we suspect there will be few, if any, easter eggs adorning Bernie’s house this weekend, the following artist’s impression accurately explains the micro-aggression of egg-hoarding and the fairness of…
Read moreAustralian Dollar versus United States Dollar Currency Cross Analysis 3 27 2016 (Video)
By EconMatters We look at the AUD/USD Currency Cross in this video. Will the AUD get back to parity with the USD? The AUD is off the 2016 lows, will…
Read moreWhy Glenn Greenwald Believes Ted Cruz Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump
Some very good, if politically incorrect, points from Glenn Greenwald on cause and effect in the aftermath of the Brussels terrorism in this DemocracyNow interview. The key section is below:…
Read moreAl Jazeera Presenter Corners Saudi Ambassador – “Why Support Democracy In Syria But Not Saudi Arabia?”
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, This past week, Al Jazeera presenter Mehdi Hasan sat down with Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN. He asked him a very pointed question…
Read moreInflation Is Not Risen – It’s The Cheapest Easter “Since Lehman”
As christians remember the fall and rise of Jesus, there is another – perhaps more important to many – rising-and-falling thing to celebrate: Egg prices are the cheapest for Easter…
Read moreNew Legislation Permits Authorities to Freeze Accounts and Use Them For Bail-ins
The world will soon be facing a tsunami of defaults on bad debts. This will include municipal or local government defaults, governments “defaulting” on promises they’ve made to the people…
Read moreWhy America May Not Be Considered A “First World Country” Much Longer
Submitted by Chris Perrin via TheAntiMedia.org, Before George Manuel published The Fourth World: An Indian Reality, the idea that any real differences existed among population groups in fully developed countries…
Read moreFive Years After Fukushima, 16 U.S. Cleanup Ships Are Still Contaminated With Radiation
The Fukushima disaster was over five years ago, and may have been largely forgotten by the general public and the media (perhaps because the Japanese olympics are just four years…
Read moreTrump Slams Cruz For “Stealing Delegates,” Says American Politics “Is A Broken System”
In the escalating war between “Lyin’” Ted Cruz and “Snivelling Coward” Donald Trump, reports that Cruz could end up with more delegates than Trump from Louisiana – despite The Donald’s…
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