RT | 1 Sept 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin has drafted a bill that aims to eliminate the US dollar and the euro from trade between CIS countries. This means the creation of a single financial market between Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries of the former Soviet Union. “This would help…
Webster Tarpley | 25 Aug 2015 Calls Are Heard for the Fed to Lower Interest Rates into Negative Territory; More Pushing on the String of Monetary Policy Will Not Work; After Failures of Fiscal and Monetary Stimulus as Well as the Debacle of Austerity Cuts, It’s Time to Try Credit Stimulus in Form of $6…
Wall St Journal | 17 Aug 2015 Crowdfunding has gotten startups off the ground. Now it’s being used to a more controversial end: WikiLeaks is crowdfunding with the goal of leaking information about impending trade deals. The whistleblowing platform, famous for revealing U.S. State Department cables, last week launched a campaign on its website to…
Sputnik News | 12 Aug 2015 When the US embarks on perennial quantitative easing, that’s OK. When the EU does QE as well, that’s OK. But when the Bank of China decides it’s in the best interest of the nation to let the yuan go down a bit instead of infinitely up, that’s Armageddon. It…
Economic Collapse | 12 Aug 2015 Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and bestselling author of “Crash Proof,” believes the impending collapse of the United States dollar should be getting the attention of investors and news outlets and not the devaluation of the Chinese yuan. Speaking in an interview with Newsmax TV on Tuesday,…
Matt Ridley | 1 Aug 2015 I spent part of last week in Iceland, the antithesis of Greece. It’s been a hard winter and a cold spring up there, but despite the stiff northerly breeze off the Arctic ocean, economically speaking Iceland is basking in real warmth, while Greece shivers in financial winter. Iceland teaches…
NZ Herald | 28 July 2015 Pressure to get sign off, as process breeds suspicion Negotiators from the US, Japan, New Zealand and nine other Pacific Rim countries could put the finishing touches on the most ambitious trade and investment deal in decades when they meet this week in Hawaii. But with the details of…
AFP | July 26, 2015 Washington (AFP) – Higher costs for needed generic drugs. Longer copyright protections than the global standard. Foreign investors empowered to overrule governments. A more tightly-regulated Internet. Those are just some of the potential pitfalls from any deal that could emerge from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the 12-country free-trade and investment pact…
WND | 6 June 2015 As it becomes apparent that most members of Congress haven’t even read the draft of a trade deal criticized by opponents as a monumental surrender of U.S. sovereignty, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is demanding President Obama explain the legal basis for not releasing the text to the public. In a…
Ars Technica | 4 June 2015 WikiLeaks has released 17 secret documents from the negotiations of the global Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), which have been taking place behind closed doors, largely unnoticed, since 2013. The main participants are the United States, the European Union, and 23 other countries including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan,…