The wealth of the top 1% has soared during lockdown, but the booming fortunes of tech billionaires like Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos reveal deep faultlines in society. The coronavirus pandemic has directly cost some 500,000 lives. But the damage it has wreaked on the world economy will cost many more. In America, the unemployment rate in April was 14.7%, up from just... 

The price of gold has climbed one percent above $2,000 per ounce on Tuesday, as the US dollar weakened to a more than two-year low. Analysts expect the bullion run to continue. Spot gold rose 1.1 percent to $2,015 per ounce by 11:05 GMT, hitting a one-week high. US gold futures were up 0.5 percent at $2,007.60. “The fragile currency environment and the weak economic numbers in the United States... 

An audience attending a Hillary Clinton rally in Omaha, Nebraska, Monday cheered enthusiastically as the Democratic nominee announced a tax hike for Americans struggling to maintain their middle class status. “Because while Warren is standing up for a fairer tax code, Trump wants to cut taxes for the super-rich,” Clinton says as Warren Buffett – the third richest man in the world worth an estimated... 

Lord Jacob Rothschild has warned investors that the world is mired in the most dangerous geopolitical situation since World War II. The 78-year-old chairman of RIT Capital Partners, a £2.3bn trust, used the organization’s annual report to caution savers that the focus of the firm would be the preservation of shareholders’ capital and not short term gains. Rothschild said that “a geopolitical... 

A shocking new report prepared by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Ministry of Defense circulating in the Kremlin today is advising all Ministries to “prepare for doomsday” as fears grow about the Western worlds response to the expected collapse of the global banking system later this month that Edward Snowden documents have revealed is a “staged event” the Obama regime has been... 

US investor Warren Buffett tops the list of the biggest 2013 public earners (not counting Rothschild, Rockefeller, Soros or other mega banksters who earn billions a day), having added $12.7 billion to his wealth, according to a report by the international analyst Wealth-X. The 83-year-old head of the Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle earned $12.7 billion in the year. In January the wealth of the... 

The global intelligence company Stratfor (Get tomorrow’s intelligence, not yesterday’s news.) recently published a series of 2014 predictive articles for its most exclusive clients which, in essence, warned that the United States would, by the end of next year, “cease to exist in all but name only” due to three looming threats: 1.) A potential false flag attack by America’s oligarchy...