Commentary

By The Automatic Earth Arthur Siegel Farmhands drinking beer, Jackson, Michigan Fall 1941 It’s a fun day in finance so far today. Eurozone growth is not going anywhere, but there’s no lack of positive anticipations […]

By John Pilger Why do we ­tolerate the threat of ­another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our ­indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even […]

By The Burning Platform “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair – I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got […]

by Jeff Thomas About a year ago, we began to advise those internationalising themselves that the time had arrived at which they might consider divesting themselves of currencies—that holding bank notes may soon become a […]

by rcwhalen Latest comments on Tim Geithner from Bill Black and his blog “New Economic Perspectives” — Chris http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/05/geithners-single-revealing-se… http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/05/geithners-ad-hominem-attacks-… Geithner’s Single Most Revealing Sentence William K. Black Timothy Geithner has a great deal of […]

By Anthony B. Sanders – George Mason University We know the labor market is weak even though it is now almost 5 years since the end of the recession (June 2009). The labor force participation […]

By Zine Larbaoui “History is a teacher nobody listens to.” — Otto von Habsburg         Pictured above is a lead-filled Roman coin, the symbol of the Roman breakdown to which the United […]

By Washington’s blog David Galland notes: Monetary scholar Edwin Vieira … pointed out that every 30 to 40 years the reigning monetary system fails and has to be retooled. The last time around for the […]

By Tyler Durden So much for the recovery… As WaPo reports, the American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. A rather damning new Brookings Institution report shows […]

By Julie Lévesque Image: An Iraqi woman with her dead child. Source: A Real Cost Of The Iraq War War is Peace. What was known as a famous quote from George Orwell’s fiction 1984 has become […]