Reading the tea leaves for the 2024 economy is challenging. On January 5, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said we have achieved a “soft landing,” with wages…
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US banks are again in the crosshairs. Standard and Poor’s has downgraded five new middle-tier banks and put three others on negative outlook. This follows sweeping downgrades earlier in…
Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers…
According to an article in American Banker called “SEC’s Gensler Directly Links Crypto and Bank Failures,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler has asked for more financial resources to…
Financial podcasts have been featuring ominous headlines lately along the lines of “Your Bank Can Legally Seize Your Money” and “Banks Can STEAL Your Money?!…
Congress has passed two major infrastructure bills in the last year, but imminent needs remain. The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law chiefly focused on conventional highway programmes, and…
George Monbiot in the Guardian on Friday suggested a frightening prospect about the food inflation we are currently experiencing. He says the problem has been…
Finance impacts all aspects of our lives, from our economies to social cohesion to the ecological systems we depend on for our very survival. As…
This post is extracted from the newsletter of the Australian Sensible Centre… Our aim is to strengthen the Australian economy by dispersing ownership and economic…
In this issue: What happens if the US engineers a near monopoly on the supply of COVID-19 medicines and vaccines Why are governments encouraging the…
This post first appeared on the Sensible Centre newsletter in Australia… What a farce was the Banking Royal Commission! Collusion between Liberal and Labor in…
Like many, I imagine, I did not see the Covid crisis coming and feel like a rabbit in the headlights in lockdown at home. Amongst…