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Happy Markets in an Unhappy World
by John Rubino The old Dickens quote “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” is pretty much always applicable to a world as big and complex as this one. But lately, […]
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America The Divided: Everyone Knows We Have Problems But There Is Very Little Agreement On Solutions
By Michael Snyder A house divided against itself will surely fall. America is more divided today than it has been in decades, and the deep divisions that are tearing us apart continue to get even […]
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Illegal Immigration And Gangs: Someday Our Cities Will Burn Because We Didn’t Protect Our Borders
By Michael Snyder This article has been generously contributed by Michael Snyder. You can follow his regular writings, research and analysis at The Economic Collapse Blog and The American Dream. Read his recent book The Beginning of the End to […]
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New World Disorder: Emerging Division Between East And West Threatens To Plunge The Globe Into Chaos
By Michael Snyder In general, over the last several decades the world has experienced an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity. The opening up of relations with China and the “end of the Cold War” […]
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Woman Who Thought Obama Would Pay for Her Gas And Mortgage: “He Lied About Everything”
By Mac Slavo Remember Peggy Joseph? She’s the woman who swooned over Barack Obama’s every word and was so excited about the fact that all her problems would be solved once he became President that she […]
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The Electrical Grid May Well Be The Next War’s Battlefield
Crippling the US without firing a shot by Chris Martenson We talk a lot about Peak Cheap Oil as the Achilles’ heel of the exponential monetary model, but the real threat to the quality of […]
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The World Celebrates The Return Of Peter The Great.
By Zine Larbaoui In the footsteps of the Sino-Russian alliance that made headlines recently, Russia continues its policy of promoting a multi-polar world by forging an alliance with Latin America. In these alliances, Putin not […]
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Debt Rattle Jul 16 2014: Market Society: Money For Your Soul
By The Automatic Earth Marion Post Wolcott Old buildings in New Orleans Jan 1941 There’s a lot of interesting pieces being written on a daily basis, if you care to look for them, and there’s never enough […]
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Picturing The March Of Tyranny
by Tyler Durden Well-known libertarian cartoonist Ben Garrison has previously summarized the state of the States perfectly in this image. As he describes it – the cartoon “shows how the banking and corporate masters (crony capitalist fascists) control […]
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Portugal’s Bank Crisis Is a European Contagion
The deeper issue is the European Central Bank papering over economic problems. BY DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, July 13, 2014 The Portuguese crisis over Banco Espirito Santo should be a reality check for European markets. Espirito Santo […]