4 Reasons to Change the Way We View Education
Mary Hickcox Activist Post The way in which we view education has a lot to do with our past; how we grew up, societal influences,…
Economy
Gold Prices Surge, Top $1270
Alix Steel The Street Gold prices were popping Tuesday as investors turned to gold as safe-haven asset after a slew of disappointing economic data. Gold…
Six in Ten Canadians Live Pay to Pay
Tavia Grant Globe and Mail The recession may be officially over, but six in 10 Canadians are still surviving from paycheque to paycheque, a national…
John Williams Sees The Onset Of Hyperinflation In As Little As 6 To 9 Months As Fed “Tap Dances On A Land Mine”
ZeroHedge John Williams, arguably one of the best trackers of real, unmanipulated government data via his Shadow Stats blog, has just released a note to clients…
IMF fears ‘social explosion’ from world jobs crisis
America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk “an explosion of social unrest” unless they tread carefully, the International Monetary…
Iraq Posting Massive Surplus Thanks to U.S. Taxpayers
Dan Froomkin Huffington Post Even as the United States has been borrowing trillions to pursue its wars in the Middle East, the government of Iraq…
The backlash begins against the world landgrab
The neo-colonial rush for global farmland has gone exponential since the food scare of 2007-2008. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph Last week’s long-delayed report by the World…
Successful Economic Policies for Whom?
Rep. Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty Last week, in the wake of another uptick in the official unemployment rate, the administration continued to claim that…
Monetary Freedom, Monetary Magic
Richard C.B. Jonhsson Lew Rockwell What is needed for us to have real monetary freedom? Do we have to repeal legal tender laws? Abolish the…
World Panel Backs Rules to Avert Banking Crisis
Jack Ewing NY Times Top central bankers and bank regulators agreed Sunday on far-reaching new rules for the global banking industry that are designed to…
Doomsday warnings of US apocalypse gain ground
AFP Economists peddling dire warnings that the world’s number one economy is on the brink of collapse, amid high rates of unemployment and a spiraling…
Max Keiser: Middle class needs to ‘sharpen up the guillotine on Wall Street’
British economy in ‘great danger’, trade unions warn
AFP The government’s programme of drastic spending cuts is putting the British economy in “great danger”, the Trades Union Congress has warned ahead of its…
US poverty on track to post record gain in 2009
Hope Yen and Liz Sidoti Associated Press WASHINGTON — The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a…