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Food for thought…. Our economy thrives when everyone thrives. The institutionalized transfer of wealth to the top 0.1%: The institutionalized decline of real income of the bottom 95%:

by zerohedge.com Oct 27, 2016 12:43 PM While several years ago it was perhaps debatable in polite society that Venezuela’s socialist economy would collapse ultimately unleashing hyperinflation, any doubt was put to rest early this year when the IMF’s own inflationary forecast confirmed as much. However, while the international community had long accepted the inevitable fate […]

By Zerohedge.com– Jun 10, 2016 1:19 PM With the Bilderberg 2016 meeting now humming along at the Taschenbergpalais hotel in Dresden, deep behind closed doors and protected by heavily-armed guards, many have wondered: just how hyperbolic are allegations that the Bilderbergs run the world. To help readers decide, here is a chart laying out the […]

By Sue Chang Published: Dec 18, 2015 2:31 p.m. ET www.marketwatch.com There is $1.2 quadrillion invested in derivatives alone. Ever wonder how much money there is in the world? The answer is complicated, which you might expect, but not because of the difficulty of tallying up all the rather large numbers. Rather, it’s more about […]

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/02/2015 16:30 -0400 zerohedge.com

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/07/2015 17:54 -0400 zerohedge.com In 1910, three years before the US Federal Reserve was founded, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Frank Vanderlip of National City (Citibank), Henry Davison of Morgan Bank, and Paul Warburg of the Kuhn, Loeb Investment House met secretly at Jekyll Island in Georgia to formulate a plan for […]

Over the centuries there have been many stories, some based on loose facts, others based on hearsay, conjecture, speculation and outright lies, about groups of people who “control the world.” Some of these are partially accurate, others are wildly hyperbolic, but when it comes to the historic record, nothing comes closer to the stereotypical, secretive […]

Monarchist demonstrators in Tehran downtown, August 26, 1953. (AFP Photo) On the 60th anniversary of the 1953 military coup in Iran that overthrew the government of radical nationalist Mohammad Mossadegh, the US has declassified documents detailing how the CIA’s secret operation brought the country’s Shah back to power. “American and British involvement in Mossadegh’s ouster […]