No Bid Government Contracts Highlight America’s Corporatocracy
click image to enlarge James Hall Activist Post Corporatocracy is distinctly the dominant practice when it comes to doing business with the federal government. The…
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Federal Reserve 100 Years of Failure
James Hall Activist Post Researching economic publications on the first century of the Federal Reserve System provides a wealth of financial information that attempts to…
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Betrayal
James Hall Activist Post The other leg to the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. In Part I scrutiny of the TPP…
Insurance Companies Profit From Obamacare
Click image to enlarge James Hall Activist Post No one can reasonably deny that the major Insurance Companies were the driving force behind the writing…
Transfers excluded, JPMorgan Chase is Wired
Click to Enlarge James Hall Activist Post The rumblings of capital and currency controls are causing a stir among perceptive financial observers. You do not…
IMF Proposal to Tax Bank Deposits
James Hall Activist Post A report by Agence France-Presse, the International Monetary Fund strongly suggests countries tax the rich to fix deficit, is a caveat…
Corporate Profits and Worker Unemployment
James Hall Activist Post The informative business publication, Zero Hedge, featured the voice of common sense and economic insight, Rick Santelli. CNBC’s Rick Santelli asks…
Financial Meltdown Five Years After
James Hall Activist Post So appropriate that the architect of banking deregulation, Larry Summers pleads that he is not the right person to head up…
Forecasts of a Doomed Economy
James Hall Activist Post Contrary investing used to be a profitable endeavor. Things have changed. The doom business is in full swing as many financial…
Hydrofracking Boom or Bust
James Hall Activist Post The economics of oil or natural gas hydrofracking are seldom analyzed from the perspective of the American consumer. Most discussions focus…
IRS as a Political Hit Squad
Dees Illustration James Hall Activist Post When the Internal Revenue Service admits to violations of law by targeting limited government advocate organizations, you know that…
Internet and Sales Taxes Dialectic
James Hall Activist Post Before you panic that your online purchases will be tagged with the added cost of state sales tax, rely on the…
The Cyprus Great Bank Robbery
James Hall Activist Post When does banksters’ extortion become outright theft? The latest example and escalation by the placing a levy fee on bank deposits…
Government Subsidizes and Bankrupts Companies
James Hall Activist Post There are many forms of government subsidies. Ambitious politicians ingeniously design schemes to expand their power and repay their donor patrons….