Dr. Jack Rasmus looks at today’s, and this past week’s, plunge in global stock markets from Shanghai to New York and beyond. What’s driving the…
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It's officially Black Monday, if only in China for now. We warned on Friday, after last week's China rout, that the market is getting ahead…
Guest #1 - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is one of today’s most progressive political and economic writers and commentators on the state of the nation:…
China conducted a flight test of its new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this month. This week, Bill Gertz reported that earlier this month, China conducted…
Following is a transcript of a recent interview with independent journalist James Corbett, where we discussed BRICS, the popular view that the organization is a resistance…
We witnessed something truly historic happen on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 530 points, and that followed a 358 point crashon Thursday. When you add…
Everything seems to be going wrong in the global economy right now. Chinese growth is slowing, Hong Kong's Hang Seng is officially in a bear…
Not even the seasonally-adjusted sentiment surveys can give a glimmer of hope any more. A few weeks after the July ISM manufacturing report printed at…
Last week, in the global currency war’s latest escalation, Kazakhstan instituted a free float for the tenge. The currency immediately plunged by some 25%. The rationale behind…
“Did you hear it? It is the sound of your world collapsing. It is that of ours resurging. The day that was the day, was…
When the banking crisis crippled global markets seven years ago, central bankers stepped in as lenders of last resort. Profligate private-sector loans were moved on…
The global climate justice movement, writes Boeve, must seize this moment in which "renewable energy is becoming a revolutionary economic force that could power a…