Tag: stock market
We’re told the Dow Jones average…
But wait – nearly all stock is owned by the richest 10 percent of Americans, so the Dow Jones Average says nothing about the economic condition of the 90 percent majority of Americans.
The Stock Market Is Getting Harder to Rig
The U.S. economy is in sad shape. Yet, corporate media tries to explain the recent stock market decline, which erased $2.1 trillion in the market value of stocks and in the pockets of Americans’ retirement savings, so logically.
VIDEO: 'Casino Capitalism: Economist Michael Hudson on What’s Behind the Stock...
While Americans watched stock prices tumble across the globe in Monday’s market turmoil, economist Michael Hudson joins Democracy Now to help make sense of what’s really behind the fluctuations in the market.
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Pope Francis’s remarkable peacemaking life
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Trump administration resumes student loan collections, threatening millions with garnished wages and economic hardship
Restarting federal loan garnishments and ending relief programs, the Trump administration advances a sweeping overhaul that critics say punishes struggling borrowers and deepens a national crisis.