22 Jan 2018 – Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth, according to a new Oxfam report released today. The report is being launched as political and business elites gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Yoda: Crypto 2018 – 10 Predictions
03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence
Ten cryptocurrency predictions for 2018 from the co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute
1. The value of cryptocurrencies continues to grow
2. The cryptocurrency craze broadens to embrace blockchain business transformations
3. The new platform for value creation emerges
4. The $10 billion ICO, as ICOs shift towards equity tokens
5. Cracks in the walls of digital feudalism
6. The digital conglomerates wade in
7. The implementation of fiat cryptocurrencies (finally)
8. Regulation fever—The good, the bad and the ugly
9. The social impact—breakthroughs on energy and climate change
10. A year of growing crypto resilience
David Stockman: The Death of Bannon — AND Trump
03 Economy, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government
Steve Bannon's Done – But It’s Way Too Late
In truth, Trump had it upside down from the beginning. The unfortunate arrival of Steve Bannon to his campaign in August 2016 only served to give the Donald’s disheveled basket of bromides, braggadocio and bile a rightist political edge and proto-intellectual rationalization.
The real problem, in fact, was not the evil flowing into the American homeland from abroad—whether imports, illegals or terrorists. Rather, it was the outward flow of Washington’s monetary and military imperialism that was gutting capitalist prosperity domestically and generating terrorist blowback abroad.
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Berto Jongman: US Homeless Population Jumps Again
03 Economy, 06 Family, 09 Justice, 11 Society
It’s the Inequality, Stupid: Growing US Homelessness a Result of Economic Growth
The homeless population in the United States has risen this year, the first time since the 2008 Great Recession, as Wall Street continues to tout historic profit-based milestones.
Catherine Austin Fitts with Greg Hunter: Saving Pension Funds, Investing in the Public, Getting Our $40 Trillion in Stolen Money Back While Restoring the US Constitution
03 Economy, Commerce, Corruption, GovernmentEllen Brown: Universal Basic Income without Increasing Taxes or Inflation
03 Economy, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society
How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation
Studies have shown that it would actually be cheaper to distribute funds to the entire population than to run the welfare services governments engage in now.
Gilles Champollion: EquaCoin A Democratic Crypto Currency
03 Economy, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Ethics
EquaCoin a democratic cryptocurrency
All of us talk about money but few really understand what money is and why there is no historical experience of a democratic coin. EquaCoin is the first cryptocoin managed by a decentralized blockchain able to finance projects with no loan interest, that can be created on demand with a democratic consent.
