The world is awash with “promises”. Nearly everything we think of as having “value” is because of a promise behind it. A few examples; your…
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It isn’t just the Greeks, or the Cypriots, or the Irish, or the Icelanders suffering the price of financial terrorism – the extractive demands of…
The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek. They know underemployment and unemployment. They know life…
For some time now social movements have expressed their support for Another Europe. Their almost unanimous support for a “NO” vote in the Greek referendum on…
The most common complaint I now hear as to why many are fearful of investing in precious metals is that they feel they have been…
As I type these words, it looks as though the wheels are coming off the global economy. Greece and Puerto Rico have both suspended payments…
Cranberry juice protecting against heart disease and diabetes, sugary drinks and high death toll worldwide. Is the paleo diet making you irritable and sleep deprived?…
According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the shadowy “central bank of central banks,” the world as it stands is incapable of combating another…
Remember when the Department of Homeland Security was issuing those color-coded terrorist alerts? Well, they don’t do that anymore. They’re back to using plain ole black-and-white…
Imagine if you had a product to sell that didn’t require advertising or marketing, but the majority of people thought they had to have it.…
Ed Kane, a professor of finance at Boston College and grantee at the Institute for New Economic Thinking [3], studies the dangerous risk-taking of giant banks. He…
Global markets are changing drastically and showing volatilities like we saw back in late 2008. I am not talking about stock markets, it is the…