Finance
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Dow Plunges 1,175, The Biggest Point Drop In History | Avie Schneider
Feb. 5, 2018 -- 4:55 p.m. -- (NPR) -- The stock market went on a wild ride again Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing down 1,175 points, its worst point drop in history. The Dow clos ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 Feb. 5 Date under the New START Treaty by which the United States and Russia are to comply with the treaty's central limits on strategic arms (700 deployed interc ...
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Student Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Jan. 5, 2018 This is the second in a two-part article on the debt burden America’s students face. Read Part 1 here. The lending business is heavily stacked against stu ...
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Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Dec. 26, 2018 Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors. The advantages of slavery by ...
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How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Jan. 23, 2018 In a blatant example of “do as I say, not as I do,” the U.S. government is profiting handsomely by accepting marijuana cash in the payment of taxes while ...
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Recent Bitcoin Correction Falls Right on Expected Growth Path | Stephen Farrington
Stephen Farrington -- World News Trust Jan. 20, 2018 A lot of sensational headlines over the past few days have announced the “crash of bitcoin,” the “bursting of the bubble,” the “beginning of the e ...
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Apple investors urge action to curb child gadget addiction | AP
Image by Jose Roberto Navas. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Jan. 8, 2018 (AP) -- Two major Apple investors have urged the iPhone maker to take action to curb growing smartphone addiction among children, highli ...
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Systems That Suck Less | John Michael Greer
Dec. 27, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on political economy attracted plenty of disagreement. Now, of course, this came as no surprise, and it was also not exactly surprising that most of ...
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Proof of randomness builds future of digital security | Katherine Q. Ye
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dec. 22, 2017 (Phys.org) -- In an effort to block emerging threats to online security, researchers at Princeton University have developed a method to verify the strength of ...
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An Introduction to Political Economy | John Michael Greer
Adam Smith. By Unknown. Public Domain.Dec. 20, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last month, when I looked across the vast gray wasteland of the calendar page ahead and noted that there were five Wednesdays in ...
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Capitalism And The World We Are Creating | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2018 “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” -Reinhold Niebuhr A couple of yea ...
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