*Economic World War: Technocratic Plutocrat Elites vs. The People.

Ignorance Is Futile Exclusive: I’ve yet to see the question asked: with increasing computer power and quality of techniques why aren’t ‘we’ getting better at sustainable economics? Where is our age of prosperity? Increased computational power shouldn’t mean decreased prosperity for all… unless it’s being used to deliberately plunder the masses. When we look at [...]

Hedge funds using artificial intelligence to beat the human competition.

Wall Street Journal: Wall Street is notorious for not learning from its mistakes. Maybe machines can do better. That is the hope of an increasing number of investors who are turning to the science of artificial intelligence to make investment decisions. With artificial intelligence, programmers don’t just set up computers to make decisions in response [...]

-How Major U.S. Banks Launder Mexican Drug Cartel Money.

Business Insider: Since 2006, thousands of people have been killed in the ongoing drug war between Mexican cartels and government forces. A new must-read article in the August issue of Bloomberg Markets smashes open the world of shadow banking between large banks in the United States and their role in the funding of Mexican drug [...]

-Don’t Investigate.

Challenger Investigation Got $175 Million. Columbia $152 Million. Lewinsky $30 Million. 9/11 $15 Million. Financial Crisis Gets Only $8 Million Source: Washington’s Blog The government spent $175 million investigating the Challenger space shuttle disaster. It spent $152 million on the the Columbia disaster investigation. It spent $30 million investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The government [...]

*Economic Meltdown headlines: 2010 thus far.

SEC Didn’t Act After Spotting Wall Street Risks, Documents Show Greenspan wanted to keep housing bubble concerns from public, new transcripts show E-mails Show Goldman Execs Boasting as Housing Meltdown Unfolded Fed Transparency: Dorgan, Grassley Push Amendment To Disclose Spending The Fed Is Only Authorized to Conduct MONETARY Policy, But It Has Also “Become the [...]