World-News

Gar Alperovitz, Truthout: ''The recent Public Banking conference held in Philadelphia offered a message that is at once so simple, but also so bold, it is hard for most Americans to pause long enough to understand how profoundly their thinking had been corralled by the masters of finance ... To understand what has happened, however, you first have to take a minute to shake a few cobwebs out of your brain about 'money' and how it is created and by whom and for whose benefit.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9658-how-big-banks-run-the-world-at-your-expense



How Inequality Wrecks Everything We Care About

Chuck Collins, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: ''Inequality is wrecking the world. Not just poverty, which is destroying the lives of billions of people around the planet, but inequality, the accelerating gap between the 99 percent and the 1 percent. According to research in dozens of disciplines, the extreme disparities of wealth and power corrode our democratic system and public trust.... Inequalities were a major contributing factor to the 1929 and 2008 economic downturns. What follows is the case against inequality.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9679-how-inequality-wrecks-everything-we-care-about

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Where Does All the Money Go?
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner553.html



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