Accelerating Albania and North Macedonia Membership EU Tries to Save Face Amidst Coronavirus Debacle
By Paul Antonopoulos, March 26, 2020
The European Union’s decision to open negotiations with Northern Macedonia and Albania is a propaganda act from Brussels that attempts to reassure members of the Union that countries, even in the midst of the epidemic, want to become members of the organization. This is a cheap propaganda trick that attempts to restore confidence in the European Union at a time when it has completely failed to deal with the coronavirus pandemic that has shown weakness in the alliance.
A Brady Bond Solution for America’s Economic Crisis and Unpayable Corporate Debt
The Fed’s Quantitative Easing since 2008 plus large companies using their earnings for stock buybacks drove the prices of financial assets into a realm of unreality. The result was that markets already were teetering on the brink of fragility. Any rise of normal interest to more normal conditions, or any external shock, was bound to crash the artificial values at which financial markets were priced. The Fed’s policy was to perpetuate this situation for as long as possible by pumping in yet more credit. But at near-zero interest rates, there was little that could be done.
Our Leaders Are Terrified. Not of the Virus – of Us.
By Jonathan Cook, March 26, 2020
It emerged at the weekend that Dominic Cummings, the ideological powerhouse behind