Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar Ellen Brown The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon…
Donald Trump finally said the quiet part with the volume all the way up: “I don’t think about America’s financial situation… I don’t think about anybody.” At the very moment…
The global economy is no longer wobbling — it’s splintering. In a sweeping, unsparing conversation, economist Jeffrey Sachs describes a world pushed to the edge by Washington’s wars with Iran…
Joshua Scheer A slow bleed is underway—and most Americans are being told not to notice. As the U.S. dollar weakens, prices are creeping higher across everyday life: groceries, travel, fuel,…
By Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Economist Michael Hudson explains the dangers. Reports suggest the US economy may be on the verge of another financial crisis, with major problems in the…
Stephen Prager for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser boasted on Fox Business Thursday that the government had slashed more than 300,000 “high-paying” jobs from the federal payroll…
Ellen Brown ScheerPost“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the…
ScheerPost Staff Journalist Ben Norton lays out the brutal logic of Iran’s asymmetric counteroffensive — and the global economic catastrophe it’s already unleashing. As Norton explains, Tehran has closed the…
Brad Reed for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and unconstitutional war against Iran is sending shockwaves across the global economy in the form of skyrocketing oil prices and diving…
After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the…
Fear of aggressive deportation raids is deterring foreign visitors, leading to a reduction in hours for workers and lost revenue.
Sluggish labor market swells ranks of long-term unemployed, leaving some job seekers frustrated with an ever-shifting hiring landscape.
By Ellen Brown A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearly all of…
There has been “almost no hiring since April,” observed one economist.
While industrialisation remains a top priority for Global South countries, debt-driven austerity, corporate dominance, wars, and sanctions keep many poorer nations locked into dependency and underdevelopment.
