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Video on YouTube, 2.36 min, uploaded by csFinancialist, April 5, 2013 … the world’s largest central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, are overseeing unprecedented easing programs *. While the European Central Bank, unlike the BoJ or the Fed, has not purchased large amounts of sovereign debt, it could do so in the future by ramping up its Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) program. That program allows the ECB to purchase sovereign government bonds on the secondary market, which would be expected to lower interest rates in the event of renewed turbulence in the euro zone. Continuer la lecture de « Are the World's Largest Central Banks Independent? »

Mise en ligne par chanson française:

• Georges Brassens the best, 167.28 min, le 9 avril 2015;
• Jacques Brel greatest hits, 43.57 min, le 7 mars 2014;     Continuer la lecture de « La Chanson Française »

Published on Zcommentaries, by Paul Street, Aug 8, 2015.

Serious debates over what the minimum wage should be in various U.S. locales and jurisdictions should start with serious information on what it actually costs to live in the different places where Americans live.   Continuer la lecture de « The Real Cost of Being Poor, reflections from the heartland »

Published on Russia Today RT, Aug 5, 2015.

NASA has released spectacular footage of the “dark side” of the moon – fully illuminated – as the Earth’s natural satellite was moving across the sunlit side of our planet. The unique shots were captured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory.   Continuer la lecture de « EPIC video of sunlit ‘dark side’ of moon crossing over Earth revealed by NASA »

• Live in Zacatecas Mexico, 7 April 2010, 109.50 min, uploaded by kitarotv, June 27, 2012 … full conert;
• Heaven and Earth, 7.39 min, uploaded by Mario Rodriguez, August 6, 2007 … and many more in autoplay.

• by Chelsea Robinson, 4.59 min – original version with Lyrics;
• by Joan Baez, 5.27 min;
• by Diana Ross, 6.05 min;
• by Nana Mouskouri, 2.50 min;   Continuer la lecture de « Amazing Grace »

Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog RWER, by Editor, Aug 4, 2015.

The answer depends on what we mean by capital accumulation. The common view of this process is deeply utilitarian. Capitalists, we are told, seek to maximize their so-called ‘real wealth’: they try to accumulate as many machines, structures, inventories and intellectual property rights as they can … // Continuer la lecture de « Accumulation of what? »

Published on MrZine.org, by Victor Grossman, Aug 2, 2015.

« I don’t know. » Those words, often repeated 160-odd years ago in the USA, earned the gang of those using them the nickname « Know-Nothing Party. » Those were no expressions of intellectual modesty; party doings were secret, so members were not supposed to disclose anything about them, but just say, « I don’t know. » Their patriotic title was actually « American Party, » but many members truly knew almost nothing except that they hated immigrants, especially Catholic Germans and Irish, and wanted to bar them from entry, from citizenship and from the vote. Continuer la lecture de « german Know-Nothings today »

Published on Montreal Gazette, by Donna Nebenzahl, Aug 1, 2015.

… The beds of this Action Communiterre collective garden in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce are already yielding lettuce, Swiss chard, peas, nasturtiums and a variety of herbs, along with raspberries from the bushes that form a pollinating garden around the edges of the space. The runner beans are climbing above the carrots, marigolds grow alongside eggplant, and peppers and tomatoes are being tied to strings attached to the wood frames that support them. Continuer la lecture de « the growing pains of urban agriculture »

Published on Perry G. Mehrling, by blog owner, July 31, 2015.

In the last few weeks, the ECB has been drawing on its liquidity swap line with the Fed, first $308 million for a week, then $658 million for a week, and last week back down to $358 million. What’s that about? … // Continuer la lecture de « testing the global central bank swap network »

Published on The Economic Times, by Yogima Sharma, August 1, 2015.

NEW DELHI: The government will likely put some money in your bank account every month if it goes ahead with a proposal currently being considered at the highest levels. The plan is to expand the direct cash transfer scheme, by deducting a portion of the subsidy each family receives through various government welfare schemes and putting an equivalent amount of cash in the account of the beneficiary … // Continuer la lecture de « India: Government planning to deduct part of subsidies and hand it over to beneficiaries to boost demand »

Published on Global Research.ca, by Stephen Lendman, July 26, 2015.

When investing becomes gambling, bad endings follow. The next credit crunch could make 2008-09 look mild by comparison. Bank of International Settlements(BIS) data show around $700 trillion in global derivatives.   Continuer la lecture de « Global Derivatives: the $ 1.5 Quadrillion Time Bomb »

related articles published during July 2015 (continuously updated …)   Continuer la lecture de « Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, JULY 1-31, 2015 »

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Published on The Telegraph.co.uk, by Matthew Scott, July 28, 2015: His plan for a British Bill of Rights will do nothing to reclaim our sovereignty – while his EU renegotiation ignores the real problem.

One thing that unites the vast majority of Conservative MPs is surely the belief that Parliament should be sovereign and the British Supreme Court should be supreme.   Continuer la lecture de « Even if we scrap the Human Rights Act, we'll still be beholden to EU laws – David Cameron »