Tyranny

The Company Store

May 6, 2019 0

by cmartenson In the song Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis (and made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford), the idea of the ‘company store’ referred to a system of debt bondage that effectively trapped workers within an unfair […]

Financial

The Week Begins On A Scary Note

September 28, 2015 0

by John Rubino on September 28, 2015 The US markets awoke to news of several big, disturbing overseas events: Glencore implodes. Think of Swiss commodities giant Glencore as a modern version of Enron, in the […]