Tag: debt

Wall Street "Populism" Tramples Thailand’s Poor
February 10, 2014 0

Wall Street "Populism" Tramples Thailand’s Poor

By News Desk

Wall Street "Populism" Tramples Thailand’s Poor And how to pick them back up…  February 10, 2014 ( ATN ) -The West has praised Thaksin Shinawatra and his "populist" policies for years as an example of very best of modern progressive principles in practice. Cheap loans, free computers, and rice subsidies were hailed as democracy in action by the Western media – and those who questioned the unsustainable, corruption and scandal fraught policies were swiftly condemned as "elitists" who rejected equality. The goal of these policies were never to lift up the poor, but rather install Thaksin Shinawatra into power long enough to uproot Thailand’s indigenous institutions and open the nation up to foreign corporate-financier and geopolitical exploitation

False Thesis of the Day: Huge Cash Pile Puts Recovery in Hands of Corporations; Cash Cow Revisited
January 23, 2014 0

False Thesis of the Day: Huge Cash Pile Puts Recovery in Hands of Corporations; Cash Cow Revisited

By News Desk

Anousha Sakoui, M&A Correspondent for the Financial Times says Huge cash pile puts recovery in hands of the few . The pile of unspent corporate cash that has built up since the start of the financial crisis is being held by an increasingly concentrated pool of companies that will be crucial to hopes of a pick-up in business investment to stimulate the world economy.