Negotiations over the Greek debt in Europe in recent weeks reveal noteworthy parallels with labor-management contract negotiations

The northern European bondholders, investors, central bankers, and Euro bureaucrats that are the true faces behind the Troika, are confronted by a serious democratic challenge by the Syriza government

Syriza versus Euro bankers

What QE has done is stimulate financial asset inflation and bubbles, accelerate capital income growth, and worsen global income inequality

As Republicans in Congress successfully change the rules, Obama and Democrats will try to change their stripes

Shadow banks have been estimated to have investable assets (i.e. relatively short term and liquid) of about $75 trillion globally as of year end 2014

The IMF, the European Commission, and the USA have been intensifying their demands that Ukraine’s Poroshenko government expand and accelerate the IMF’s April 2014 plan to ‘restructure’ the Ukrainian economy

A look at China’s efforts since 2010 to tame its foreign ‘shadow banks’ that have been playing a central role in creating financial bubbles in its residential housing, local infrastructure, and currency markets

Dissecting key provisions in the Republican Congress’s recently passed ‘Omnibus’ Appropriations bill

The Omnibus spending bill just passed by Congress indicates clearly that the Republican Legislative Offensive is being rolled out faster than otherwise might have been predicted