Renters are are in dire straits financially, while homeowners are “continuing to reap the rewards” of cheap pandemic money that left renters with nothing but inflation.
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Modern (Mis)interpretations of Ancient Debt Cancellation
Mesopotamia’s concept of divine kingship was key to the practice of declaring Clean Slates. The prefatory passages of Babylonian edicts cited the ruler’s commitment to serve his city-god by promoting equity in the land.
Why we still believe in gold
For those looking for solidity amid volatility, crypto’s ethereality doesn’t offer the same reassurance as a piece of metal from the earth. In uncertain times, it would appear, we will always cling to the same certainties our ancestors did long ago.
Overdraft Fees, Credit Card Late Fees, the Lump of Profit Fallacy
The rule would limit high fees when they are used as a back-end profit center, and it would require compliance with TILA if the banks want to charge fees higher than those limits.
Debt From Above: The Carbon Credit Coup
What seems like a technological marvel aimed at progress and connectivity harbors a darker agenda — one that intertwines planetary surveillance, financial predation, geopolitical maneuvering, and the domination of a resource-rich continent buried in debt.
Food inflation: Math doesn’t add up, factoring in corporate power
This combination of monopoly power and unregulated activity in financial markets allows agricultural commodity traders, big agribusiness and food companies to make huge profits from food price rises.
The Dystopian Cashless Future We must Fight
The Global Capitalist system, which since 2008 has been visibly collapsing under the strain of the finance debt bubble, now requires the creation of massive new markets for investment and speculation, in order to survive.
Mustard Gas, Crypto and Blockchain
Sam Bankman-Fried was able to pull this scam off because of his philanthropy. There’s a history of influential scammers doing this—Bernie Madoff made lots of philanthropic gestures, for example. People engaged in all sorts of scumbaggery do this.
Money systems at the root of omnicide
Expansionist monetary systems turn us all into oppressors and exploiters of ourselves, each other and wider nature.
Big Money, Creepy Technology & Cash Friday
Catherine Austin Fitts conducts a fascinating interview with Whitney Webb regarding Ms. Webb’s writing about transhumanism, but the conversation builds from there—the Great Reset, the takeover of the financial system and solutions that regular people can use now to resist—like Cash Friday.
