Category Archives: Banana republic

Bill Black: A “Jihadist” Against the Banks?

More proof that the Department of Justice is working for Big Finance: it tried to discredit Bill Black’s testimony by calling him a “jihadist”.

John Helmer: Australian Police, Dutch Prosecutors Break with Dutch Safety Board at First Coroner’s Court Inquest on MH17 Crash

Australian police and Dutch prosecutors do not agree with the Dutch safety board’s claim that they have proven that MH17 was brought down by a BUK missile.

Ilargi: Marine Le Pen Will Reap What The EU Has Sown

Thanks to EU and Eurozone misrule, Le Pen is right when she says: “Nothing can stop us”.

The Continuing Fight Over Fannie and Freddie, and the Real Problem of US Mortgages

How understanding the history of Fannie and Freddie, as well as how unnatural US mortgages are, helps explain why the fight over the future of the GSEs continues.

Ilargi: CON21

To halt the demise of the planet, you can’t rely on the same people who cause it.

US Life Expectancy Flat for Third Year

The fact that life expectancy in the US is no longer rising, in a time of economic growth, is yet another sign of underlying societal decay.

Matthew Cunningham-Cook: How the Christie Stole New Jersey Local Government Workers’ COLA

A vignette of how pensioners are being shafted by being denied their COLA, or cost of living increase. In New Jersey, this looks to be a transfer to Wall Street.

Gauis Publius: Making the US a Petro-State – White House Keeps Alive GOP Hopes for Lifting the Oil Export Ban

Why lifting the oil export ban is “appeasement” of Big Oil and needs to be stopped.

Michael Hudson: The IMF Changes Its Rules….for Ukraine

The IMF has now been drawn into the U.S. Cold War orbit.

Is France Building an Apartheid State?

In France, members of Arab and African communities languish in a spiral of poverty, relegated to second-class citizenship and physically separated through deliberate planning.

How CalPERS Violated California Open Meeting Laws to Stifle Private Equity Skeptics and Keep the Board in the Dark

If CalPERS breaks the law routinely and casually to silence private equity skeptics, what is it capable of doing when the stakes are higher?

The Importance of Wealth Concentration and Why It is So Difficult to Measure

As bad as available data says wealth concentration is, it is probably even worse.