Posts by Jeff Berwick

Yesterday we went over the state of the world and if you read the article you’ll find it’s not good. In fact, it’s downright disastrous. There are defaults and impending collapses all over the place, from China to Europe to South America and beyond. What did the stock market do the very next morning? It…

The Credit Suisse Fear Barometer just hit an all-time high as reports circulated through the alternative media that Barack Obama discussed the imposition of martial law when he and Vice President Joe Biden met with Yellen on Monday in an “emergency meeting.” The reports may be exaggerated but not the crisis-like feel of the meetings. This was reportedly…

Last year I traveled with Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change (the top independent journalist in the world in my opinion) to the G7 in Munich.  I wanted to see for myself what happened at these places.  As I reported, it was one big party where they were pouring thousand dollar bottles of champagne like water for the…

One crime was surely committed last week.  The theft and release of hundreds of thousands of documents from a law firm in Panama in a brazen, coordinated, conspiratorial hack.  It’s called the Panama Papers. The thieves are so brazen that they have identified themselves.  They call themselves the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and…

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We covered the Greek crisis, last year, and for the most part we said that no matter what the Greek people “decide” via a vote, the IMF and the EU would strangle the country by any means necessary. Many people responded that we were crazy.  “For what purpose would the IMF and EU want to destroy Greece?”…