TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
As it turns out, the rumors were true — HSBC escaped prosecution for money laundering because the behemoth bank was “too big to jail.” A U.S. Congressional report, entitled “Too Big to Jail: Inside the Obama Justice Department’s Decision Not to Hold Wall Street Accountable,” found officials in the U.K. applied the economic threat combined Read More…
For most, the thought of having one’s retirement account wiped out is almost nightmarish, to put it bluntly. The reason should be quite obvious; what rational human being would want to accumulate their hard-earned savings over several decades of labor, to then one day find out that all the money saved up from this labor is now gone? For Read More…
Recent poll finds 71 percent of Americans believe U.S. economy is rigged. A new Marketplace-Edison Research poll published Tuesday found that a full 71 percent of respondents agree that the economy is rigged, affirming the popular rhetoric of the current presidential campaign season. The majority opinion held firm across ethnicity, class, age, and gender differences. Read More…
‘For every person with more than $30 million, there are over 4800 people living in extreme poverty.’ The wealth gap keeps growing as the world’s richest get richer at the expense of the poor, according to a new study released this week by an alliance of major organizations. The World Wealth Report from Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Read More…
Bank of America and JP Morgan, among 74 of 158 financial institutions, invested in companies producing internationally banned weapons. Despite the international ban on cluster bombs, more than 150 financial institutions have invested $28 billion in companies that produce them, according to a new report released Thursday. Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Read More…
This Monday, the 13th of June, marks the end of the Dresden, Germany hosted annual sociopolitical corporate summit, Bilderberg, for 2016. This year marks a tumultuous discourse of journalists and protesters with German police and sometimes by chance, actual Bilderberg attendants–with Luke Rudkowski even getting a brief public statement by Peter Thiel of his attendance (for Read More…