Tuesday, 16 November 2010



By Eric Margolis

The US government is stoking worldwide inflation in order to lower its outstanding debt by repaying creditors with depreciated dollars. The rest of the world is boiling angry at Washington. Continue


What It Means for the Rest of Us

By MICHAEL HUDSON

The argument is made that “The rich create jobs.” After all, somebody has to build the yachts. What is missing is the more general principle: Wealth and income inequality destroy job creation. Continue



By Charles Sullivan

With its reliance on corporate money and financial contributions by the wealthy, the U.S. electoral system provides movement in only one direction: to the right. Continue



By Paul Craig Roberts

The ignorant population of the “Great American Superpower,” buried in fear propagated by a Ministry of Truth, has acquiesced in the total destruction of the US Constitution and their civil liberties. Continue



By Chris Hedges

Universities stand as cowardly, mute and silent accomplices of the corporate state, taking corporate money and doing corporate bidding. Continue

Data reveals higher Greek debt: Greece expects the budget deficit in 2010 to be larger than initially targeted after the EU's statistics agency announced that the country's debt last year was actually much higher than projected.

Irish Bailout Under Way, Claims Opposition: The Irish opposition's finance spokesman says he believes European intervention is "under way" and that the matter will "come to a head in 24 hours".

Austerity fails to save Ireland: Troubled European governments are discovering that fasting is no cure for a giant debt hangover.

The view from China: US forces world to donate blood: The world should come up with a powerful tool to bridle the US dollar and the people managing it.

Fed's ability to influence market could be over: The Federal Reserve took the first step in a $600 billion plan to boost the economy Friday. The same day, the Standard & Poor's 500 index tumbled to its worst weekly loss in three months. It wasn't just a coincidence.

Current Mortgages Turning Delinquent Rises for First Time in a Year: During the third quarter of this year, 2.7 percent of current mortgage balances transitioned into delinquency, according to new data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That’s up from 2.6 percent that became newly delinquent in the second quarter.

Mortgage Modifications Aren't Stopping Foreclosures: Programs designed to keep owners in their homes are being upended by lost paperwork and procedural errors

People on unemployment face big cut: It’s ironic: Even as the conspicuous consumption season revs up to a screaming pitch over the next few weeks, in the same period millions of Americans are at risk of losing the ability to buy so much as a gum ball.