Si vous pressentez que l’avenir s’annonce morose, qu’il y a peu de chance que tout ce bazar termine dans la joie et la bonne humeur, qu’il existe une infime chance que nous échappions à un effondrement systémique de la civilisation thermo-industrielles, vous n’êtes pas loin du compte. Dans cette vidéo, nous essayons – en nous appuyant sur les données disponibles […]
We are living in times of increased global economic injustice, suspicion against the establishment and a political terrain that is being redrawn to such an extent that few analysts really understand what is happening. Rarely have we seen such political mobility and possibility for change. But the ruling political consensus in Europe and the western world seems unyielding: “There is no alternative”.
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The work to transform society involves two parallel paths: resisting harmful systems and institutions and creating new systems and institutions to replace them. Our focus in this article is on positive work that people are doing to change current systems in ways that reduce the wealth divide, meet basic needs, ensure sustainability, create economic and racial justice and provide people with greater control over their lives.
This is going to be an exercise in redefining fascism after meeting with socialists on the hundredth anniversary of the great revolution. In the early 1900s, the Italians who invented the term Fascism also described it as estato corporativo, meaning: the corporate state.
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.
— Benito Mussolini
Then you have that great liberal, giver over of social goods from the rich, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who once described fascism as
Crushing regulations are driving small banks to sell out to the megabanks, a consolidation process that appears to be intentional. Publicly-owned banks can help avoid that trend and keep credit flowing in local economies.
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During his visit to hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump shocked the bond market when he told Geraldo Rivera of Fox News that he was going to wipe out the island’s bond debt. He said on October 3rd:
You know they owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street. We’re gonna have to wipe that out. That’s gonna have to be — you know, you can say goodbye to that. I don’t know if it’s Goldman Sachs but whoever it is, you can wave good-bye to that.
Critical Questions for students of Economics and Finance, as well as for retail investors worldwide: If you were shown how an academic discipline, or an investment marketplace, were rigged, or at the least, not fully what they’re officially sold as being, would you still invest your time, effort and/or hard earned cash? Or would you want the truth, and to then plan accordingly around it? Is ‘fitting in’ that important to you to where you’d potentially turn a blind eye to scientific and political realities involving financial corruption? How long until you lose your shirt on said prescri
Très important article d’Emmanuel Lévy
Source : Marianne, Emmanuel Lévy, 11/07/2017
Pour les 0,01% les plus riches du pays, les deux mesures phares d’Emmanuel Macron signifieraient l’exonération de 1 million d’euros d’impôt en moins par ménage. – Jacques Witt/SIPA
Source : RFI, 19-05-2017
Fragilisé par la crise des subprimes en 2007, le système économique américain (ici une photo de la Bourse de Wall Street), serait de nouveau menacé, cette-fois à cause de l’insuffisance de financements des fonds de pensionsPixabay
