First deputy chairman of Russia’s Central Bank – Sergey Shvetsov has recently announced that BRICS countries are mulling the creation of a unified gold trading system. And as David Gibson, Managing Director at GoldVu Investment Company, told Radio Spu ...[
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In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international finance, trade and foreign aid (defined simply as any government credit) depicts an almost utopian system uplifting all countries, ...[
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Nearly 4.2 million kids and young adults without a parent or guardian are homeless across the United States over the course of a year. A new study from the University of Chicago revealed the startling statistic this week, focused specifically on homeless ...[
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Middle-class voters are in agreement with a surprising group of people: millionaires. Since 2010, a group called Patriotic Millionaires has fought for the closure of a number of tax loopholes and workarounds that allow people like them to pay less while t ...[
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The three richest people in the United States – Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett – have a total wealth that exceeds the savings of America’s poorest 160 million, a new study shows.
The three billionaires are sitting on a combined $248.5 b ...[
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The world’s biggest businesses, heads of state and global figures in politics, entertainment and sport who have sheltered their wealth in secretive tax havens are being revealed this week in a major new investigation into Britain’s offshore empires.
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Republican lawmakers unveiled a sweeping rewrite of the tax code on Thursday, outlining a $1.5 trillion plan that will deliver a significant tax cut for corporations and more modest savings for middle-class families while tilting the United States closer, ...[
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The four main Nordics—Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland—are doing rather well. If you had to be reborn anywhere in the world as a person with average talents and income, you would want to be a Viking. The Nordics cluster at the top of league tables ...[
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With the help of Alan Greenspan, Reagan pulled off one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against the American people.
It is so ironic that many people, today, still believe that Ronald Reagan came galloping up on a great white horse to sound the ...[
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's fight for a "millionaires' tax" to help repair the country's largest subway system got a boost as U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, one of the nation's most popular politicians, endorsed the plan on Monday.
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U.S. senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says Americans have much to learn from health systems outside their borders, including Canada’s.
“We do not in the United States do a good job in looking around the rest of the world and as ...[
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