Tag: James Hall

The global corporatist economy works differently from business transactions at your neighborhood convenience store. Ostensibly, the International Monetary Fund was set up to allow the G20 nations to umpire the ground rules to play nice in macro trade.

 Financial instruments are inventions of gnomes from investment houses and exchanges. There is nothing intrinsic about profitability or guarantee that over time such transactions...

The significance of the TPP -Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the TTIP - Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement has your head spinning already, now...

FATCA targets tax non-compliance by U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts. Get informed before its too late!

A quaint comparison of what money can buy in today’s market has Bill Gates being able to afford every home in Boston.

The Robber Barons of the 19th and 20th century had nothing over the elites of today’s globalist transnational financial conglomerates.

The top five military contractors by sales are Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumann, General Dynamics and Raytheon. In addition to the Department of Defense...

With the FCC policy to allow a two-speed internet, the die is cast that corporate favoritism is the focus of government, as Internet 2...

What does the United States have in common with Japan’s economy? Demographics of an aging population have consequences for both countries. As Japan News reports, National debt hits record high.

Leave it to the corporatist tax attorneys, re-incorporating a company overseas in order to reduce the tax burden on income earned abroad, by having a foreign company buy its current operations.

Quite a stir occurred with the academic presentation, How Technology Is Destroying Jobs, by Brynjolfsson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and his collaborator and coauthor Andrew McAfee.

During the 1990’s the conventional economic wisdom supported the repeal of Glass-Steagall. However, “10 years later, the end of Glass-Steagall has been blamed by some for many of the problems that led to last fall’s (2008) financial crisis.

  No one has ever claimed that the financial markets are a level playing field. Equities, bonds, currencies, options and futures are not arenas that...

As the deadline for filing yearly income taxes is rapidly approaching, businesses especially hard pressed to make a profit in a depressed economy struggle with their tax compliance.

It should be obvious that the recent putsch and regime change in the Ukraine inspired and backed by the U.S. shadow government, benefits the international banksters.

  The vast gulf between corporate economic interests and political gamesmanship is vividly made clear with the calls for sanctions against Russia. Now that the...

  Debt is everywhere but it just does not seem to matter. Thanks to the folks at Zero Hedge, you get the account Global Debt...

Economic illiteracy is a hallmark of most political policies.

Bipartisan acquiescence to this fascist model for pillaging the national treasury is an incontrovertible fact of this continuation of abuses.

Any analysis of domestic fossil fuel production and use must acknowledge that independence for U.S. energy has not been the national goal. Contrary to...

  With Ben Shalom Bernanke set to depart on the last day of January 2014, the critique and speculation of his tenure as Chairman of...

The globalists put their plan into motion decades ago. The proper meaning of the headline is not that China is an economic miracle, but...

With the rush to the bottom, the commemoration of the NAFTA 20th anniversary is a most hollow celebration.

  Commercialism, long criticized, as a distortion of the true celebration of Christmas, has become a crucial profit component for the corporate economy. Very little...

Both domestic and international wires are no longer available to be sent from a business savings account.

The IMF has set off shockwaves this week in Washington by suggesting countries fight budget deficits by raising taxes.

What is Rehypothecation of Collateral? Find out through this article.

The doom and gloom predictions that the dollar is finished gets a rebuttal argument.

So appropriate that the architect of banking deregulation, Larry Summers pleads that he is not the right person to head up the Federal Reserve....

Contrary investing used to be a profitable endeavor. Things have changed. The doom business is in full swing as many financial prognosticators seek to...

When is a bank an appendage of state?

When struggling consumers hear about offshore banking, they naturally think such assets only apply to the rich.

The pie has grown from a sandlot clubhouse hobby to a billionaire jet set club.

Theologians preach that religion is based upon faith, while economists depict that the world runs on money.

When Barack Obama uttered those fateful words: "If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen", the entire mindset of the collectivist culture crystallized.

The practices and methods of manipulating commodity markets, is a staple topic in financial journalism.

The financial woes of Detroit were a long time coming.

Further open markets to grow the $459 billion in U.S. goods and services exports to the EU.

Intuitively, most observers sense that employment practices have changed dramatically from days gone by. Terence P. Jeffrey in CNS News provides the stats on the disappointing jobs record performance.

The outlook for residential home ownership is much different from that of investor objectives in acquiring housing for lease or rent.

Speculation is mounting that "Helicopter Ben" will exit the Fed at the end of his current term. When the Bernanke era ends, what expectation will the next head of the central bank face?

What makes Goldman Sachs alumni at the center of international finance? Is it pure talent and business acumen, or is there more to the equation, then grooming the best and the brightest?