RT | February 28, 2015 A study by the International Monetary Fund tracked three decades of income and found that as unionization declined, the wealth of the richest 10 percent in advanced countries showed a continuous increase. More specifically, the study’s authors found that when researching income levels during the period of 1980-2010, the decline […]
RT | February 12, 2015 The International Monetary Fund announced a new $17.5 billion lifeline for Ukraine, which would bring the total bailout package to $40 billion. The new sum would be a four-year program. Lagarde will propose the $17.5 billion expansion program to the IMF by the end of the month. “The program is […]
By Robert Bridge | RT | December 18, 2014 Despite, or because of, the fallout from the 2007 Great Recession, annual earnings between the richest Americans and everybody else have exploded to record levels. Meanwhile middle- and lower-class wealth growth remains stagnant. The median wealth for high-income families hit $639,400 last year, a whopping 7 […]
Image: Four oligarchs very close to Putin: Guennadi Timtchenko, Iouri Kovaltchouk, Igor Setchine and Arkady Rotenberg (Image credit: voltairenet.org)
The restoration of Russian power engineered by Vladimir Putin is compromised by the economic war waged against him by the United States and the European Union. Western aggression, observes Professor James Petras, will compel Russia to either eliminate the oligarchs on whom it has relied so far or die.
RT | September 9, 2014 The United States has instructed Europol, the European Union’s police agency, to withhold its own annual internal data-protection review from EU lawmakers because the report was written without the US Treasury Department’s permission. Europol drafted the data-protection report “without prior written authorisation from the information owner (in this case the […]
RT | August 22, 2014 While the US government touted its “record” settlement reached this week with Bank of America for mortgage fraud that helped fuel the 2008 recession, the details of the agreement indicate yet another light punishment for an offending Wall Street titan. Bank of America agreed to a $16.65 billion settlement with […]
If there’s one retail company to watch as a prelude to what comes next it’s always been Walmart. If there’s one indicator of the state of the global economy it’s consumer purchasing on the retail level. And if there’s one retail…Read more →
RT | May 17, 2014
Portugal exited its international bailout program on Saturday, regaining its economic sovereignty, which it lost after the European debt crisis. However, the country’s GDP is four percent lower than in 2010, a year before it asked for financial help.
RT | May 17, 2014
Portugal exited its international bailout program on Saturday, regaining its economic sovereignty, which it lost after the European debt crisis. However, the country’s GDP is four percent lower than in 2010, a year before it asked for financial help.
Experts Predict Crash of the Dollar, Collapse of the United States & Rise of the Illuminati with their New World Order Agenda in 2014 “There will never again be an honest election in the United States” according to the elite banker…Read more →
