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That’s the “magic” of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

Michael Hudson

The companies aren’t hiring, because consumers don’t have enough money to buy the goods and services.
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Consumers Enough Hiring Services
Textbooks don’t teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that’s what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.
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Army Income People
The bankers are the people running these banks. They’re the chief officers, and they push the loans because they don’t care if they go bad. For one thing, they may package these bad loans and sell them off to gullible institutional investors.
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Banker Loan Package Running Think
When I say the economy is shrinking, it’s the economy of the 99%, the people who have to work for a living and depend on earning money for what they can spend.
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Gone People Shrinking
To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.
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Country Eurozone Greece People Turns
Money is not a factor of production. But in order to have access to credit, in order to get money, in order to get an education, you have to pay the banks.
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Factor Get Money Order
The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.
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Free Mark Money Promise
If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.
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Income Investment Looks National Savings
Now, suppose that a homeowner puts down only 3% of their own money or 3.5% for the FHA. That means if prices go down by only 3%, the house will be in negative equity and it would pay the homeowner just to walk away and say, “The house now is worth less than the mortgage I owe.
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Mean Mortgage Moving Thinking
You have to abolish pension plans. You have to abolish social spending. You have to raise taxes.
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Pension Plans Simple Thinking
You get a constituency; you make them believe your promises, and then you turn them over to your financial campaign backers. That’s what politics has become and that’s as much an art of deception as economics is.
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Campaign
The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in the last decade has gone to the One Percent. It’s gone to Wall Street, to real estate.
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Decade Economic Real Wall War
Europe is sort of like the Soviet Union in the ’30s and ’40s. There was an argument, is it reformable or not? There is a feeling, and I think it’s correct, that the European Union, the eurozone, and the euro, is not reformable, as a result of the Lisbon treaties and the other treaties that have created the euro.
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Correct Feelings Reformable Taken Thinking
Trump’s junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it’ll all trickle down. But it doesn’t trickle down.
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Cutting Illusion Junk
The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.
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Ability Creation Economy
Somehow most people believed they could get rich by going into debt to borrow assets that were going to rise in price. But you can’t get rich, ultimately, by going into debt. In the end the creditors always win.
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Country Debt People Some Somehow

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