Scientists Have Announced a Plan to ‘Refreeze’ the Arctic … Desperate times call for desperate measures, and with temperatures near the North Pole hitting an unheard-of 20 ?C (36 ?F) warmer than average last year, things in the Arctic are undeniably grim right now. But rather than sit by and watch as the sea ice disappears from the region at an unprecedented rate, scientists have...Read More
Yellen defends independence of Federal Reserve … Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet L. Yellen defended the central bank's independence Wednesday from Republican lawmakers pushing for major changes in how the Fed operates and how regulators oversee the nation's banking system.The Federal Reserve is not independent and never has been. It is part of the Bank for International Settlements for on...Read More
Monopolies Are Worse Than We Thought … Economists are increasingly turning their attention to the problem of monopoly. This doesn't mean literal monopoly, like when one utility company provides all the power in a city. It refers to market concentration in general — when an industry goes from having 20 players to having only 10, or when the four biggest companies in an industry start ta...Read More
Scientists Have Announced a Plan to ‘Refreeze’ the Arctic … Desperate times call for desperate measures, and with temperatures near the North Pole hitting an unheard-of 20 ?C (36 ?F) warmer than average last year, things in the Arctic are undeniably grim right now. But rather than sit by and watch as the sea ice disappears from the region at an unprecedented rate, scientists have...Read More
Yellen defends independence of Federal Reserve … Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet L. Yellen defended the central bank's independence Wednesday from Republican lawmakers pushing for major changes in how the Fed operates and how regulators oversee the nation's banking system.The Federal Reserve is not independent and never has been. It is part of the Bank for International Settlements for on...Read More
THE CHAIR OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE JUST FACT-SHAMED DONALD TRUMP … Janet Yellen reveals the president has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to Dodd-Frank. Yellen doesn't have time for this amateur-hour presidency. – Vanity FairAccording to Vanity Fair the "incredible" businessman Donald Trump doesn’t understand much about how the dollar or the larger economy.He had ques...Read More
Global Effort Launched to "Repeal and Replace" United Nations … A global effort dubbed "Covenant of Democratic Nations" is working to abolish the United Nations, widely ridiculed as the "dictators club," and replace it with an international forum open exclusively to free and democratic nations. -New AmericanThe Covenant of Democratic Nations is a replacement for a United Nations that is dy...Read More
THE CHAIR OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE JUST FACT-SHAMED DONALD TRUMP … Janet Yellen reveals the president has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to Dodd-Frank. Yellen doesn't have time for this amateur-hour presidency. – Vanity FairAccording to Vanity Fair the "incredible" businessman Donald Trump doesn’t understand much about how the dollar or the larger economy.He had ques...Read More
Global Effort Launched to "Repeal and Replace" United Nations … A global effort dubbed "Covenant of Democratic Nations" is working to abolish the United Nations, widely ridiculed as the "dictators club," and replace it with an international forum open exclusively to free and democratic nations. -New AmericanThe Covenant of Democratic Nations is a replacement for a United Nations that is dy...Read More
Why Europe Is Warning of Pax Americana’s End ... Last year, the global security establishment was mildly worried about a growing U.S. disengagement overseas. This year, the worry has given way to a realization that the “liberal world order” — another name for Pax Americana — may be finished, and that new security arrangements are needed. That’s the conclusion th...Read More
The original Federal Reserve Act dictated that, in selecting members of the Board of Governors, "The President shall have due regard to fair representation of the financial, agricultural, industrial and commercial interests, and geographic divisions of the country." How is it, then, over 100 years hence, that the Fed has been overrun by academic economists? This critical question must be bol...Read More
Why Europe Is Warning of Pax Americana’s End ... Last year, the global security establishment was mildly worried about a growing U.S. disengagement overseas. This year, the worry has given way to a realization that the “liberal world order” — another name for Pax Americana — may be finished, and that new security arrangements are needed. That’s the conclusion th...Read More
The original Federal Reserve Act dictated that, in selecting members of the Board of Governors, "The President shall have due regard to fair representation of the financial, agricultural, industrial and commercial interests, and geographic divisions of the country." How is it, then, over 100 years hence, that the Fed has been overrun by academic economists? This critical question must be bol...Read More
Are long-unloved commodities going to find a new lease on life in 2017? Recently interviewed by Investor's Digest of Canada, analyst Chris Marchese certainly feels that way about uranium. He also is bullish on other base metals-particularly zinc-based on U.S. President Donald Trump's stimulus plans.After years in the doldrums, uranium and uranium mines seem ready to explode (not literally, of cour...Read More
TISA's Worse Than TPP-Kiss Internet privacy and national sovereignty goodbye – National EconomicsWe got rid of TPP and now they’re bringing it back with TISA. In some ways it’s even worse that TPP.TPP was killed because Congress wasn’t going to go along with it and US President Donald Trump withdrew the country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as soon as he got i...Read More
Long before the Egyptians saw the light of day, an advanced civilisation of humans lived in southern Africa mining gold. These were also the people who carved the first Horus bird, the first Sphinx, built the first Pyramids and built an accurate stone calendar right in the heart of it all. Adam's Calendar is the flagship among millions of circular stone ruins, ancient roads, agricultural terraces...Read More
TISA's Worse Than TPP-Kiss Internet privacy and national sovereignty goodbye – National EconomicsWe got rid of TPP and now they’re bringing it back with TISA. In some ways it’s even worse that TPP.TPP was killed because Congress wasn’t going to go along with it and US President Donald Trump withdrew the country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as soon as he got i...Read More
Long before the Egyptians saw the light of day, an advanced civilisation of humans lived in southern Africa mining gold. These were also the people who carved the first Horus bird, the first Sphinx, built the first Pyramids and built an accurate stone calendar right in the heart of it all. Adam's Calendar is the flagship among millions of circular stone ruins, ancient roads, agricultural terraces...Read More
Booth says many books about the Fed's actions following the financial crisis have been written to make Fed officials look as good as possible because they are often written by the principals themselves.A former Fed adviser in Dallas has criticized central bank economists for not understanding economics. Danielle DiMartino Booth was a financial journalist who warned about a real estate crash due t...Read More
Booth says many books about the Fed's actions following the financial crisis have been written to make Fed officials look as good as possible because they are often written by the principals themselves.A former Fed adviser in Dallas has criticized central bank economists for not understanding economics. Danielle DiMartino Booth was a financial journalist who warned about a real estate crash due t...Read More