Reviewing the continuing collapse of global oil prices and its effect on the emerging recession in Russia, continuing economic stagnation in Europe, and the deepening Depression in the Ukraine economy

As the global economy slows, the push for still more and newer forms of austerity continues worldwide

Talk on how the net effect on the global economy will likely prove to b significantly negative overall, and that the price decline could fall as low as $40/barrel in coming months

Since June 2014, the price of high grade crude oil has fallen more than 40 percent

Taylan Tosun interviews Rasmus on how the mortgage crisis in the U.S. turned into an epic recession in the real economies of the many advanced capitalist countries

Capitalist monetary policies bail out the rich, but simultaneously cause the rest of the global economy to gradually grind to a halt

A shift even more to the right in the United States senate means more for the corporate sector

Congress is about to develop new policies on behalf of Corporate America, many of which represent a resurrection of past policies of the Bush administration

Ukraine’s real economy and its citizens suffer severely as a result, with all indications that the economic crisis there will get worse, perhaps much worse, before it ever begins to get better

Austerity is about making the general populace and the working classes pay