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US Election 2020 -- A New America Takes Over | LEAP GEAB 145
May 15, 2020 (LEAP) -- The next U.S. presidential election, despite its relatively normal exterior, is already showing some new features. For example: 1) It’s not the main point of interest on the ...
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Market Manipulation In The Age Of Pandemic Is Destroying Traditional Safe Havens | University of Sussex
Credit: Dmitry Demidko on UnsplashMay 14, 2020 (Phys.org) -- The coronavirus pandemic has created enormous volatility in global financial markets but prices of safe-haven assets such as gold and ...
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Crushing the States, Saving the Banks | Ellen Brown
The Fed’s Generous New Rules May 2, 2020 (Web Of Debt) -- Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package -- a mere 5 percent -- ...
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What the Pandemic Revealed: a Morally Bankrupt Culture | Charles Hugh Smith
Monopolies, quasi-monopolies and cartels are inherently exploitive and thus evil. May 1, 2020 (OfTwoMinds.com) -- What was "normal" for the past two decades was to turn a blind eye to the moral and ...
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A Universal Basic Income Is Essential And Will Work | Ellen Brown
A central bank-financed UBI can fill the debt gap, providing a vital safety net while preventing cyclical recessions. Ellen Brown -- Web Of Debt April 19, 2020 According to an April 6 article ...
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Was the Fed Just Nationalized? | Ellen Brown
Did Congress just nationalize the Fed? No. But the door to that result has been cracked open Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt April 3, 2020 Mainstream politicians have long insisted that Medicare for all, ...
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How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed | Ellen Brown
July 10, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another ...
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Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control | Ellen Brown
June 27, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated -- not in the United States but in China. Unlike in ...
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Universal Basic Income: A Thoroughly Wrongheaded Idea | Milton Ezrati
(Editor's note: I selected this story to provide some perspective to Ellen Brown's more recent story: "A Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work." I don't claim to have any big answers, ...
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Tesla without Musk at the wheel? It's what the SEC now wants | Tom Krisher And Alexandra Olson
Elon Musk at the 2015 Tesla Motors Annual Meeting. Credit: Steve Jurvetson, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Sept. 28, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Tesla without Elon Musk at the wheel? To many of the electric car maker's ...
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An economic model to help policymakers understand willingness to deal with climate change efforts | Bob Yirka
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Two economists -- one with the London School of Economics and Political Science, the other with Princeton University -- have created a model to ...
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