The Top 5 Prosperity Measuring Sticks More Accurate Than GDP
The Great Recession is over! According to Wall Street it ended in 2009 when the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) starting growing again. Of course for the poorest 98% of us who live near Main Street, we know different, and some indicators show that our standards of living have been declining since 1975. The GDP is an antiquated tool to measure the situation in a country. Here are 5 superior metrics that better reflect reality.
Tax Day: A Third Of Your Tax Money Is Spent On Wars And Security
If you are a US citizens ,or a resident with income in the United States, today is the IRS deadline to file your tax return unless you have filed for an extension. In Washington, the “talk of the town” is the ballooning budget deficit and finding ways to cut it. However, because 99 percent of […]
Chaos Capitalism: Turning Your Pain Into Their Profit
By Liam Fox and Gilbert Mercier The challenge is never to fix a problem, not for the profiteer. For them, the challenge is how to make as much money as possible no matter what amount of misery a natural, or man-made, disaster unleashes on humanity. Have you ever wondered why, no matter how much money is […]
Anonymous ‘OperationLeakS’ Exposes Bank of America Fraud Emails
At 12:00 midnight, Eastern Standard Time, the dawn of ‘Black Monday’ broke on America. Anonymous leaked the first in a series of email files aimed at proving Bank of America’s involvement in serious fraud. The access to the actual site where the following information was first posted by @OperationLeaKs, and where the larger size of […]
US Foreign And Budget Policies: Putting Bandages On The Titanic
Egypt And Tunisia: Real Hope And Change We Can All Believe In When he was elected in 2008, President Obama brought a sense of hope for real changes not only in the United States but abroad. Some were naively hoping that the new US administration could be a catalyst for a peaceful global revolution which […]
