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Blockbuster WSJ Investigation: How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results
...Google’s evolving approach marks a shift from its founding philosophy of “organizing the world’s information,” to one that is far more active in deciding how that information should appear...

If Bloomberg is so rich, why does he steal worker wages?

Top U.S. General in Europe Warns of China’s Economic Control of Continent’s Ports

Carlyle Breaks From Pack, Promising Impact Investing Across Firm
It was a curious moment last year when Carlyle Group Inc., once famous for bold bets on defense contractors, hired one of the more prominent names in socially responsible investing.

Of Course Millennials Want to Stay Home – It's All We Can Afford to Do
Today's solo dwellers are less likely to design their homes around entertaining others than previous generations were. That makes sense: We're busy, on a tight budget, and exhausted.

If Billionaire Investor Warren Buffett Ever Buys Bitcoin You Should Probably Sell

Will coronavirus trigger a global recession?
The spectre of contagious disease tends to have a disproportionate impact on economic activity because healthy people avoid traveling, shopping and even going to work.

This chart is the best explanation of middle-class finances you will ever see

Permanently Addicted to Zero
Mr. Powell also averred this gem in his latest testimony, "Low rates are not really a choice anymore; they are a fact of reality." Credit must be given here for finally admitting the truth—albeit what was probably a slip of the tongue. The Fed is tacitly stating that keeping money at a virtually-free rate is now a mandatory condition for perpetuating asset bubbles and preventing mass defaults on the record-breaking level of corporate debt.

Coronavirus wipes out $1.7 trillion in US stock market value in two days

Drivers of expensive cars are more dangerous to pedestrians

Donald Trump Promised to Eliminate the Deficit in 8 Years. So Far, He Has Increased it by 68%

Satire: Sanders Admits Receiving Free Checking from Big Banks

‘Draw good from evil’: France should use Coronavirus outbreak to reduce reliance on Chinese-supplied goods, minister says

China encourages citizens to return to work as coronavirus hits economy

Coronavirus credit crunch hits millions of Chinese firms

"It Will Be Really, Really Bad": China Faces Financial Armageddon With 85% Of Businesses Set To Run Out Of Cash In 3 Months

REVEALED: Chief magistrate in Assange case received financial benefits from secretive partner organisations of UK Foreign Office

The Greek economy is roaring back—which could lead to the mass eviction of homeowners

Eastern Mediterranean: Turkey’s third drillship to begin operations in 2020 

A Gulf apart: How Europe can gain influence with the Gulf Cooperation Council

Genoa To Keep Receiving Chinese Imports, Boosts Inspections At Ports - Authority

Eurobank applies to join Greece's Hercules bad loan scheme

Second witness keeps mum on Novartis case

Virus impact on Greece seen at 1.5 pct of the country’s GDP

Mapping out the Banking Elite’s Goal for a Cashless Monetary System – Part Two

Give Pandemic Bonds a Chance
The  securities are hardly a gimmick stunt that divert scarce health-care dollars to financial markets.

Target Warehouse Faces Its First Public Union Drive

The Usher Uprising
In the U.S. and U.K., movie theater assistants are organizing union drives, fighting for higher wages and more secure employment. They deserve it

Horror Stories From Inside Amazon's Mechanical Turk

The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. And It’s a Nightmare.
Low pay, soaring rents, and cities littered with e-scooters. Welcome to the future.

We bought dozens of products from AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Wish. Over half were suspected fakes
Why you might want to think twice before shopping online

How Amazon Uses Lending to Control Small Businesses
The nature of the Amazon marketplace makes it virtually impossible for third-party sellers to borrow from private banks. Amazon’s own lending unit has filled the gap.

The Height of Idiocy

The Height of Idiocy
I remain of the opinion that we’re headed into the biggest economic smashup in history.

The Pandemic Isn’t Ending, It’s Just The Beginning Of Global Disorder & Depression

To Survive, Venezuela’s Leader Gives Up Decades of Control Over Oil

The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election

When a Black Swan Flies Over Wall Street’s House of Cards

When Even a Rich City Is Starved of Funds

Credit Suisse CEO Thiam ousted

What the new coronavirus means for the world economy

 The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World.

Australia Moves To Restrict Cash and Build Up Its Surveillance State

Mexico Is Showing The World How To Defeat Neoliberalism

 Ivanka Trump honored for boosting manufacturing jobs "like no one in government has ever done"

IMF Warns: Gulf States Face Risk of Losing Oil Wealth by 2034

Will China Seize an American Company's Drug For Fighting Coronavirus?

How China Will Use Its Social Credit System to Keep Control Over Its Military

Living in Inequality, Dying in Despair

Harry and Meghan attend exclusive JP Morgan event in Miami

A bank employee gave $20 to a customer in need. She and her supervisor were fired.

U.S. ends antitrust probe of 4 automakers over California emissions deal


Why the Government blocked a law forcing nursing homes to reveal staff and food budgets


Why a Shadowy Tech Firm with Ties to Israeli Intelligence Is Running Doomsday Election Simulations

Revealed: how drugs giants can access your health records

Trump was busy destroying government programs while the country was distracted by his impeachment: columnist

Nollywood movies promoting money rituals, encouraging kidnapping – Fashola

Fifty-Eight Years Later, Cuba Continues To Resist U.S. Blockade

What Happens To All The Old Wind Turbines?

New Europeans: Greece is handing residency to thousands of wealthy Chinese

Victoria's private school fees smash $40,000 mark

40 percent of food in America ends up in the trash. Is nanopackaging the answer?

Coronavirus turns busy Chinese cities into ghost towns

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