economics

Dr. George Ayittey is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the continent of Africa. As a professor, he has published many thought-provoking books about the continent, including Indigenous African Institutions; Africa Betrayed; The Blueprint For Ghana’s Economic Recovery, Africa In Chaos...

Job seekers stand in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State Department of Labor. (Reuters / Lucas Jackson) If current economic trends continue, the average black household will need 228 years to accumulate as much wealth as their white counterparts...

Naija is experiencing its worst recession in 20 something years. The slump in commodity prices, especially oil which accounts for above 80% of government revenue has adverse economic effects. Not to mention corruption allowed by previous government so no rainy day surplus money. Inflation...

Most Millennials Have Less Than $1,000 In Savings, Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck The majority of millennials are living paycheck to paycheck. A recent survey of millennials by HowMuch.net found that 51.8% of those aged 18-34 have less than $1,000 held between bank accounts and cash savings. As...

Apologies if this is a repost. Explained on an 8th grade level so that most can understand. Goes in on Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Love how he breaks down the connection of Germanic blood in Western Europe around the 12:00 mark. One of the full lectures.

The national conversation regarding police brutality has grown and intensified and recent years. One thing that I've been disappointed in is the failure to link the experiences and consciousness of the Occupy Wall Street movement with the wave of activism that arose around Black Lives Matter...

New film coming out speaking on the economic issues in the Afican-American community. I think you all will appreciate the content. EDIT! Thanks @ahdsend :salute: EDIT 2: IndieGoGo is now open for donations!

What George Soros' Quotes and Stock Holdings Say About the Future George Soros is back, and that's not a good sign for the global economy. Jay Jenkins (TMFJayHJenkins) Jun 14, 2016 at 10:41AM Billionaire George Soros sees an economic storm gathering. Image source: Flickr/Carl Milner. George...

Originally this was made for the temp agency thread but I thought it would make for a good discussion. Disclaimer: if you're sensitive or hate serious topics...please leave now or just put me on ignore. And Yes I'm negative, and im fine with it. I don't need 20 posters to remind me. You been...

Pepe ESCOBAR | 28.03.2016 | OPINION China Is Already Living in 2020 Consumed by myriad manifestations of its existential crisis, as usual the West neglected or underestimated the biggest show in Chinese politics: the famous «two sessions» – of the People’s Political Consultative Conference and...

The government of Canada has wound down its gold reserves to basically nothing after a multi-year strategy of selling them off in favour of hoarding other countries' currencies instead. According to the Department of Finance's official international reserves data released Thursday, Canada's...

Trudeau's debut deficit will mark fiscal shift in Canada: Q&A Trudeau's debut deficit will mark fiscal shift in Canada: Q&A Theophilos Argitis, (c) 2016, Bloomberg(c) 2016, Bloomberg For the first time in more than 30 years, Canada is getting back into the red willingly. Prime Minister Justin...

This thread is a spin-off from http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-official-socialism-thread.155127/. Time and time again on this board, inaccuracies and misconceptions are promoted about socialism, what it is based on, and what it means. For someone unfamiliar with socialism, it can be difficult...

source He's been having some sensible opinions lately. :ehh: I think I posted his analysis of TPP, which was pretty spot on.

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You guys know any good books? I'm 19 currently taking a year off from school and I need a bit of help looking for good books related to finance and economics as it would relate to someone in the us. I typically prefer down to earth authors over the uppity intellectual authors but I'm open to...

The other day I researched black owned Banks and found this list from 2013 Did You Know There Were 21 African American Owned Banks In The Country? | Urban Intellectuals I found one in my area, went down there and opened up an account. I'm about to toss Bank of America to the bushes and make...