Simon Johnson is a professor of entrepreneurship at MIT. In this video he explains that the financial crisis is no accident but a continuing cycle in which the big banks get ever richer and more powerful. He does not seem to recognize the debt imperative and growth imperative that is a feature of our debt-money and banking system but his charts clearly show its effects.–t.h.g
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Beyond Money- Who’s Reset will it be? January 23, 2021The oligarchs, plutocrats, and technocrats have a plan for you. It’s been called the “New World Order,” and now, “The Great Reset” which is being promoted by the World Economic Forum. Despite their high sounding rhetoric, you and I will … Continue reading →
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- Painting a (false?) picture by the numbers January 7, 2021During my academic career my primary teaching duty was to provide my students with an understanding of the use of statistics to draw conclusions about the real world, and how to avoid the common pitfalls that lead to error. In … Continue reading →
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- My Latest Interview October 12, 2020On October 7 I was interviewed by Patricia Cori for her program, Beyond the Matrix.
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