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Payday loans gone wild

A sign of our times: everywhere we look today we see different payday loan shops. These shops cater to the droves of increasingly desperate people looking to cover cash flow shortfalls and agreeing to pay immoral, enslaving interest rates as … Continue reading →

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The undermining of democracy: effective power no longer elected power

Admit, repent, reform, recover… Martin Wolf talks about his new book ‘The Shifts and the Shocks’, what has been learned from the financial crisis, and how elites can regain credibility in the wake of the crisis. Here is a direct … Continue reading →

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Bank of Canada: no model of strength and stability

Despite the circus of purported ‘love’ around former BOC head Mark Carney (who wisely left for England last summer before the Canadian credit bubble could burst), a short honeymoon phase for newcomer Governor Poloz, and glowing self-endorsements of bank owned … Continue reading →

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