financial crisis
In this interview, former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, outlines the nature of the 2008 financial crisis, the reasons for the program of “quantitative easing” and the irrational actions of...
Here’s a video from Yahoo! Screen featuring an interview with Neil Barofsky, former Special Inspector General in charge of the TARP bailout and author of a new book, Bailout: An...
Because of the way in which its people have responded to the financial crisis, tiny Iceland has drawn a lot of attention lately. Some pertinent information about this was provided...
Iceland was one of the first countries to experience the financial crisis that plagues the world. It seems to be the canary in the coal mine, and as such, it...
My latest article, The World’s Ominous Reckoning, is featured on Reality Sandwich. It was also excerpted and posted on the P2P Foundation blog. For your convenience, I also post it...
Inside Job is a recently released documentary film about the causes of the present financial crisis. I’ve not yet seen it, but from all indications it’s a blockbuster that exposes...
Max Keiser interviews a Greek economist who explains how an artificial crisis was created by banks and institutions to force Greece to accept IMF conditions. It is a pattern that...
As I sit sweltering here in Malaysia (and before this, in Thailand) observing the busyness, the massive amounts of construction, the noisy moving to and fro, the widening extremes of...
Even though it does not quite get to the root of the matter, this article is worth reading. The Other Plot to Wreck America By FRANK RICH THERE may not...
The present disorder in the financial markets and the cascading failures of financial institutions come as no surprise. Those who recognize the impossibility of perpetual exponential growth and who understand...