Hang On to Your Wallet: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-In

By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt Nov 21, 2015 If you’re an ordinary saver with money in the bank, you may soon be paying the bank to hold your funds rather than the reverse. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Iceland Sentences Bankers to a Combined 74 Years in Prison

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 23, 2015 Iceland has sentenced its 26th banker to prison for the official’s role in the 2008 financial collapse. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Risk of Global Financial Crash Has Increased, IMF Warns

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2015 The International Monetary Fund says a slowdown of the Chinese economy and a decline in world trade are undermining the stability of highly indebted emerging economies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Top Banker: Climate Change Threatens Global Financial Crash

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Oct 2, 2015 The chairman of the G-20 nations' Financial Stability Board says an orderly shift from fossil fuels to renewables is needed to avoid turmoil on world stock markets. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

What Marx Was Really Saying

By Douglas Lain Sep 23, 2015 To grasp the work of the groundbreaking economist and philosopher, we have to go beyond his image and do more than just intuit what is right in his work. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Greek Crisis Fallout: Time Is Running Out for an Island Community That Runs on Cash

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 20, 2015 Forgotten by banks, the government and whole “swaths of the modern world,” Agios Efstratios in the Aegean Sea is so remote that the mobile phone network can’t process data and ATMs are nowhere to be found. If taxes rise in the wake of the Greek bailout, the effect could be catastrophic. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Rap Compilation of Conservative Speeches Is the Only U.K. Election Message You Need

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Apr 4, 2015 The United Kingdom is holding elections in May, and while David Cameron, Nigel Farage and their classist, racist cronies are out to convince the public to vote for them with sugar-coated messages, the British comedy duo Cassetteboy knows what they're really peddling. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Does Barney Frank’s New Book Let Democrats Off the Hook?

Staff / Truthdig Apr 3, 2015 Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer confronts the former Massachusetts representative over President Clinton’s role in creating the Great Recession and other issues dividing progressives from the Democratic Party leadership.Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer confronts former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank over President Clinton’s role in creating the Great Recession and other issues dividing progressives from the Democratic Party leadership. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Recovery

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Europe’s Millennials ‘Suffered Disproportionately’ From the Financial Crisis and Austerity

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Feb 25, 2015 Europe's youths have shifted their views and feel increasingly powerless to effect change. In a world filled with so much socio-economic instability, can we blame them? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Has the IMF Annexed Ukraine?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 14, 2015 Michael Hudson, an economist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, says the terms attached to the loans made by the IMF to Ukraine are likely to turn its people into penniless serfs of international banks. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Why Ireland’s Political Elite Are Terrified of Syriza

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 2, 2015 Irish leaders -- eager to maintain that compliance with the demands of international creditors after the 2008 crisis was the best choice for Ireland -- are concerned that the defiant tactics of Greece's newly elected Syriza party may expose their program as flawed if Syriza wins concessions from the troika of lenders. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )