Economic Reason

Title: Princes of the Yen Directed by: Queuepolitely Year: 2014       Film Synopsis from Queuepolitely: “Princes of the Yen” reveals how Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda and desire of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this. Based on a book by Professor Richard […]

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Is Google becoming a form of artificial intelligence that will benefit mankind or will it provide the necessary tool for fascists leaders to have ever more control over our lives? In 1937 HG Wells predicted the creation of the World Brain?, a giant global library that contained all human knowledge and which would lead to […]

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  Reprinted from Soverign Man The sniper took a breath in as he put the fleeing form of Peter Fechter into the crosshairs of his rifle. As he exhaled, he squeezed the trigger, landing his bullet squarely in the young boy’s back. Watching Peter’s body fall, he mentally congratulated himself on what he’d just done […]

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BBC Knowledge Network presents part 1 of 3 of the short documentary series Bankers. In 2008 the financial crisis swept across the modern world. Today, banks are still at the eye of the storm. This three-part BBC documentary series examines recent scandals that have shaken the financial sector, and the revelations of complacency, greed and […]

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Peter Schiff meets with Jim Rickards, author of The Death of Money, for an exclusive interview about gold’s role in the international currency wars. Jim Rickards is Chief Global Strategist at the West Shore Funds, and Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics + global capital. In The Death […]

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After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990, the US became the world’s superpower. The US, then tried to contain its future rivals, that is Russia and China. With this aim, the US proposed the project of “the greater middle-east”. The US occupation of Afghanistan, Iraq and its presence in the middle-east was not […]

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Reprinted from Wolfstreet While the US has been struggling for five years with a recovery that has been so crummy that “recovery” often shows up in quotation marks, Canada has been rolling in good times. Its economy has been powered by a housing bubble beyond even US imagination. I wrote about that phenomenon in April: […]

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Precious metals dealer Anthem Vault in the United States has just recently announced the launch of its new altcoin dubbed “Independence Coin,” otherwise known as the “INNcoin.” What makes this coin different is that it is the first digital coin entirely backed by physical gold. The founders of the coin are taking their stab are […]

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Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much? Gaining insight from international tax experts, Backlight director Marije Meerman, takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along which tax is avoided globally. Those routes go by resounding names like ‘Cayman Special’, ‘Double Irish’, and ‘Dutch Sandwich’. A financial world […]

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Title: The Truth Behind the Federal Reserve Director: Bill Still Year: 2013 [rate] What’s the problem with the world economy? It’s debt — too much personal debt — too much corporate debt — and most importantly, too much government debt. “People have a natural tendency to want to spend now and pay later. They will […]

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