Higher interest rates will triple the interest on the federal debt to $830 billion annually by 2026, will hurt workers and young voters, and could bankrupt over 20% of US corporations, according to the IMF. The move is not necessary to counteract inflation and shows that the Fed is operating from the wrong model. Responding […]
Yellen’s Effed up Attack on Working People, Sad by Mike Whitney…
Why did the Fed raise its benchmark interest rate when inflation is still running below the Fed’s target, workers wages have hardly budged and the economy is not even growing at 1 percent? Yellen was asked that question at a press conference on Wednesday following the release of the FOMC’s statement. Her answer helps to […]
The Reason the Fed is Raising Rates, and Why It Won’t Work by Mike Whitney…
Why is the Fed creating incentives for US corporations to destroy themselves? Why is the Fed pushing insurance companies and retirement funds into bankruptcy? Why is the Fed raising interest rates when inflation is still well below its 2 percent target? Things are not always what they seem. In theory…
Fed Monetary Policy Is Being Held Hostage by Wall Street Banks…
American banking has now evolved from too-big-to-fail to too-big-to-prosecute to too-big-and-dangerous-to-return-to-normal-monetary-policy…
Stocks Explode Higher After Fed Cuts US Growth Potential To Lowest On Record…
FOMC Remains on Hold: Read Full Text of Statement…
Rearranging The Deck Shares——Central Banks Inflating Massive Debt Bubble Even Further…
While Central Banks continue to “rearrange deck chairs” by shuffling bad debt around the globe and fostering continued bailouts of banks and hedge funds, the “ship is still slowly sinking”…
House Republicans Think the Fed Is In Conspiracy With the Rich: Are They Right?…
Yesterday, four Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee […] presented a persuasive argument that it’s really the Federal Reserve […] that’s sacrificing the poor and…
Showdown: Economic Standoff Between US, China Reaches Acute Phase…
The 8th round of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue talks between the U.S. and China were recently held in Beijing. The meeting was organized amid growing tensions…
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