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75Economical and Financial Jokes
A chemist, an engineer and an economist are stranded on a deserted island. They carry with them some canned food but have no ordinary means of opening the cans. The chemist suggests gathering some wood and...
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69John Law the financial genious crook, responsible for the Mississipi Scheme and the Fiat Money based on Credit
John Law (1671 - 1729), born in a scottish banking family, was an adventurer, gambler and financial genius Crook. After the death of his rich father, he became addicted to gambling losing most of the...
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62Saudi Prince recognized to have financed alleged Terrorist Foundations on US Soil in a lawsuit by 9/11 victims but ...
A lawsuit seeking $1 trillion in damages on behalf of the victims of the September 11 had been launched against Saudi Arabia. As counteroffsensive, according to MSNBC article, the Saudi defense minister...
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63Interview with John Perkins author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man'
DANIEL MCLEOD: You place economic hit men in a long line of imperial agents including Roman centurions, Spanish conquistadors, and 18th and 19th century colonial powers. All of these approaches relied on...
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59[Russian Pravda Newspaper] Weapons of the Future - Weather, Plasma and Money
Let's imagine that a country at war is using meteorological weapons: an earthquake is followed with hard rains and draughts. An enemy will most likely ask for help after such a powerful impact. It will be the...
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61John Kenneth Galbraith on the Central Federal Reserve Bank
-- John Kenneth Galbraith From his last book The Economics of Innocent Fraud : The Fed, for all its power and prestige, effectively does nothing, says Galbraith. In his view, America's Federal...
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62Saddam Hussein was a CIA Agent Assassin - Confessions of an Economic Hitman
It is known in offical history that only one year after Abdul Qassim, former leader of Irak, overthrowed the British-installed Monarchy, a young officer Saddam Hussein tried to attempt to his life but failed....
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63Why Democracy doesn't really matter as long as the People stay ignorant on One Single Issue
I've made my education in two engineering schools in France. I had the chance to get a deep financial education in the second one. Nevertheless it was a classical one and I was never told at school the real...
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57The Economics of Innocent Fraud by John Kenneth Galbraith
In this extended essay, John Kenneth Galbraith illuminates examples of "innocent fraud" or the gulf between perception and reality in the modern American economic system--a system he had a hand in creating...
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62Omar Torrijos
Omar Torrijos (February 13, 1929 - July 31, 1981) was the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981. Torrijos never held elected office in Panama, and was never president. He did hold the title of...
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