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US Government is Partially Responsible for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: February 3, 2014

Yesterday, on the eve of the nation’s most celebrated spectacle, the Super Bowl, it was announced that actor Philip Seymour Hoffman had died from a heroine overdose, reportedly with the needle still in his arm. Of course, Hoffman is responsible for his own actions, especially given that he had numerous opportunities to benefit from rehab […]

Posted in News | Tagged Drug War, Justice System, Law Enforcement | Leave a comment

Poland Confiscates Retirement Accounts and Yes, It’s Coming Here

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: September 9, 2013

Poland recently announced that it was nationalizing the country’s private retirement accounts, their equivallent of 401(k)s. While residents will continue to have access to the funds just as they normally would, the move places private assets on the country’s public balance sheet. While this maneuver was in the works for sometime, of course, the devil […]

Posted in News | Tagged European Debt Crisis, Financial Crisis, Regulation | Leave a comment

The Earth-Shattering Whistleblower You Haven’t Heard About

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: June 26, 2013

While many in the nation are concerned with Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) leaker who helped to spread the word about the agency’s spying and data collection within the US, the extent of that spying still remains clouded. Are our calls actually being recorded? Can that information be recalled at a later date? […]

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US, UK, and Canada Have Plan To Allow Banks to Seize Depositor Accounts

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: April 4, 2013

In our last story, we noted how government backed loans in the housing market encourages rising home and rent prices throughout the nation, a transfer of wealth from almost every single American to various establishment organizations. Now we have another example of banks transferring risk to the taxpayer. The term “Too Big To Fail” should […]

Posted in News | Tagged Banks, European Debt Crisis, Financial Crisis | 1 Response

Walmart and Other Retailers See Falling Sales

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: February 17, 2013

Bloomberg has a stunning story out about Walmart’s dropping sales figures. In it, they cite leaked internal emails between company executives where they describe in plain language how bad sales are. The emails are only a few days old. Here are some quotes: On February 12, Jerry Murray, Walmart’s vice president of finance and logistics, […]

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The Prison System Runs Amok, Expands at Frightening Pace

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: September 6, 2012

In the early 1970s, the prison population in the United States was small and was steadily falling relative to the size of the population. Experts imagined that in a few decades, the prison system as we know it could be successfully dismantled, but that began to change after President Nixon began the War on Drugs in 1971, […]

Posted in News | Tagged Justice System, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Privatization | 2 Responses

The Healthcare Industry is Doomed to Collapse

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: June 27, 2012

Indeed it is and it will take with it any sucker foolish enough to enter the industry. Like the housing bubble and the dot-com boom, its collapse goes against all conventional and establishment thinking, but it’s an easy call to make if you examine the evidence. At first, the industry looks healthy, robust and likely […]

Posted in News | Tagged Financial Crisis, Healthcare | Leave a comment

States Hand Over Tax Refund Management to JP Morgan

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: May 29, 2012

Just weeks before it was revealed JP Morgan Chase lost billions in “hedge” trading and speculation, it was announced that the bank has a new deal with Connecticut, Louisiana and other states to financialize their tax returns. Instead of residents receiving a tax refund check directly from the government, they will be required to accept […]

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A Gun to Literally Silence Speech

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: May 29, 2012

A report recently published by two Japanese scientists describes the effects of a new invention they call a “speech jammer.” When directed at a person speaking, it confuses the subjects brain, quickly causing him or her to fall silent. In essence, the device literally silences speech. 

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What Experts Say About the JOBS Act

By S.J. Kerrigan | Published: April 10, 2012

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act or JOBS Act was passed last Thursday to no great fanfair, but we wonder if it may yet go down in history alongside Gramm-Leach-Bliley as a law which helped set the stage for  ‘pump and dump‘ bubble schemes and financial fraud. To put it another way, its a bad law, one […]

Posted in News | Tagged Banks, Financial Crisis, Justice System, Law Enforcement, Regulation, Unemployment | Leave a comment
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