Tag: economy

This scam supposedly began in 2011 and for the last five years, roughly 1.5 million deposit accounts and 65,000 credit-card accounts were created.

“We need a genuine reemployment system – including not only unemployment insurance, but also income insurance.”

“War is so deeply embedded in the psyche of this government that extracting it would take a minor miracle.”

Beware the presidential candidate who says he or she wants “less government” and promises to lift burdensome regulations on business.

“The income and wealth inequality is the worst since the Great Depression. In 2015, the Top 1% earned 22% of all income earned in the U.S.”

The June trade deficit rose from the months prior because of rising imports.

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The TPP reflects the flawed economics and arrogant politics of Wall Street and the national security establishment that has betrayed working people.

“I am not going to get another 50 years to try to create the world of peace, justice and sustainability for which many of us strive but I am going to use every single moment of the time I have left.”

“As for the United Kingdom, it will be wise to stick to the referendum and leave the unaccountable, undemocratic and over-regulated EU that is flirting with imperial goals. Shaken but not stirred after Brexit, Great Britain will be just fine.”