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Beware the Memory Hole: Tuesday’s Vote Is A Good Time to Recall 2008

Donald Trump has warned that folks will “lose a lot of money” if the House turns blue. History—namely the 2008 financial crisis caused deregulated banks—suggests red is even costlier.

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Federal Reserve Targets Asset Bubbles In Warning to Wall Street – But Is It Listening?

Recent statements by Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen – who said that certain markets, like biotech and social media, are overvalued – mark a potential revolution in how central banks worldwide could act.

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How Soon Will American Populism Reclaim Democracy From the Oligarchs?

We know that the rich and big corporations now dominate the political process to an extreme worthy of an oligarchy – and we know that the only counter to organized money is mobilized people.

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How the Federal Reserve and Bank of England Are Fueling Massive Global Inequality

That the U.S. and U.K.'s central banks are encouraging food speculation — and are thus responsible for its disastrous results — shows clearly how both countries' monetary policies are engineered to work against the interests of the majority.

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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty, Financial Crisis Kingpins

"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that," wrote Lawrence Summers while serving as Chief Economist at the World Bank. He is now in the G30.

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Illuminate the Fed on Its Centennial – Because One Century Is Enough

The Federal Reserve Act, signed into law 100 years ago on December 23, 1913, was written in private, “debated” when Congress was empty, and voted on after most had gone home for Christmas. When better to stage an economic coup on the nation?

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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty and the "Good Discussion" They're Still Having

Emerging from the Rockefeller Foundation in the late 1970s, the Group of Thirty was designed as a think tank, lobby/industry group and, ultimately, a consensus-building institution for the global elites – to ensure that they stayed that way.

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