Par Olivier Berruyer
Tous les gouvernements promettent le retour de la croissance. Aucun n'est fidèle à sa parole et les chiffres expliquent pourquoi. En Belgique, en Suisse et au Canada, la croissance du PIB par habitant est revenue, en 2026, à ses plus bas niveaux historiques : il faut remonter aux années 1930 pour la Belgique, à 1850 pour la Suisse et le Canada.
And Nobody's Counting the Bodies
By Milan Adams
Preppgroup
July 29, 2026
The numbers came in just after dawn on the East Coast, and they told a story that no amount of White House spin could obscure. Oil futures had stabilized at $86 per barrel overnight-a figure that would have seemed catastrophic eighteen months ago but now represented a temporary reprieve from the $119 spike that had crippled global markets in April.
By Tim Hartnett
July 29, 2026
In the July 18/19 Weekend Financial Times Jinu Koola wrote about the differences in wealth distribution and social status perception going on between Oslo and her native United States. "What," she asks, "has the dependence on meritocracy given America?" Later noting, "The economist Raj Chetty shows that only half of America's young adults earn more than their parents, down from 92 per cent in the 1940s." The article, "Norway and the case for mediocracy," takes on the question of whether so-called "meritocracy" is fair, justified or an overall benefit to society.
Schiff Sovereign
July 28, 2026
The Department of Transportation's headquarters campus in Washington spans two complexes covering 1.8 million square feet across 11-acre of prime DC real estate.
In the private sector, such a trophy office property would fetch north of $1 billion per year in rental income.
Yet for the federal government, two-thirds of the space sits empty according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government's own internal watchdog.
By Jim Quinn
The Burning Platform
July 28, 2026
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the mo
Vijay PRASHAD
Le dollar peut sembler être une monnaie neutre, mais il est en réalité une forme de pouvoir impérial qui discipline les économies, finance les guerres et oblige le Sud Global à financer sa propre subordination.
Chères amies, chers amis,
Salutations depuis les bureaux de l'Institut Tricontinental de Recherche Sociale.
Il y a des moments dans l'histoire où un système semble si complet qu'il est difficile d'imaginer sa fin.
The dollar may appear to be a neutral currency, yet it is in fact a form of imperial power, disciplining economies, financing war, and forcing the Global South to fund its own subordination.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental.
There are moments in history when a system appears so complete that it becomes difficult to imagine its end. When Britannia 'ruled the waves', it was thought in large parts of the world that sterling was not merely a currency but the natural language of commerce itself.
June 4, 2026
Karl Fitzgerald: All right, friends of economic reform, welcome to another Hudson Roundtable here for Professor Michael Hudson's Patreon supporters. Thank you so much for helping independent analysis come through. And my, it's been coming thick and fast, Michael. Welcome to this quarterly roundtable. I wanted to start off today by trying to draw in the role of investigative journalists.
Par Moon of Alabama - 23 Juillet 2026
Au cours des dernières heures, le titre principal du FT est passé de l'annonce d'un pétrole grimpant de 95 à 98$ et maintenant 100$ le baril.
Étant donné qu'Ansarallah au Yémen est aussi furieux que l'Iran et que les États-Unis se préparent à une escalade, il ne fait aucun doute que le prix augmentera
Par Olivier Berruyer
Le niveau de dépenses publiques est une tarte à la crème du débat médiatique monopolisé par les néolibéraux, qui ne cessent de faire passer notre pays pour une sorte d'enfer fiscal où les citoyens, et surtout les plus riches, seraient maltraités par un État obèse dont les impôts matraqueraient le secteur privé, toujours présenté comme étant le seul "productif".
L'engouement du gouvernement américain pour les cryptomonnaies dites "stablecoins" ne se limite pas à la corruption à la Trump ou au lobbying industriel. Il s'agit d'une tentative visant à réduire les coûts des emprunts fédéraux, une initiative qui pourrait, à long terme, compromettre la stabilité du système financier.
Source :Jacobin, David Martin
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Une nouvelle forme de cryptomonnaie, appelée "stablecoins", a fait une entrée fracassante sur la scène financière mondiale.
Jaison R. Abel, Mary Amiti, Richard Deitz, Sebastian Heise, and Nick Montalbano
The past year brought dramatic changes to U.S. trade policy, including sweeping new tariffs, as well as a Supreme Court decision that further reshaped the tariff landscape. Many businesses saw their costs increase significantly and faced complex decisions about whether to absorb the tariffs through lower profit margins, raise their prices to recover the higher costs, or some combination of the two.
By Doug Casey
International Man
July 24, 2026
International Man: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently declared that all US gold is "present and accounted for" and said the country's stockpile is now worth more than $1 trillion at current market prices.
What's your take on this?
Doug Casey: How does he know it's "present and accounted for" ? There hasn't been an audit for many decades.