Protest Movement Building Steadily in Germany and Austria

The momentum is building in both Germany and Austria for mass protests against the boomerang effects of the Russia sanctions as well as the failure of political decision-makers to prevent speculative increases of food and energy prices. In most cases, the demands are limited to price and rent caps, as well as compensation to make up for inflation rates. However, […]

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Sweden to Get a New Government, But What About a New Policy?

On Monday of this week, the leader of the Moderate (conservative) Party, Ulf Kristersson, began probing the possibilities of forming a center-right government after the opposition won an extremely slim majority of two seats in the national elections, leading Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, a social democrat, to resign on Sept. 15. A Kristersson government would have the support of the […]

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Chinese Economist: LaRouche as a Precursor of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Professor Ding Yifan, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for World Development of the China Development Research Center, participated in Panel 1 of the Schiller Institute’s Sept. 10-11, 2022 conference, titled “Inspiring Humanity To Survive the Greatest Crisis in World History” (cf. SAS 37/22). In his presentation, reproduced below, he brought up Lyndon LaRouche’s invaluable contributions to the science of […]

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When the Energy Bubble Pops…

If you google the word “Lehman”, you will get tons of results these days, related to the threatened explosion of the financial energy bubble. The analogy is with the insolvency of Lehman Brothers in 2008, which threatened to bring down the entire financial system. What is now occurring, is that utilities exposed on the gas futures market are receiving margin […]

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Shut Down Speculation on Amsterdam’s Gas Exchange!

A growing portion of public opinion has been made aware of the fact that the root of the gas price inflation is the highly speculative TTF (Title Transfer Facility) market, which sets the prices of gas for the EU on the basis of a totally fictitious demand driven by financial traders. Calls for regulating or shutting down the TTF for […]

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Popular Unrest over Price Inflation Growing in Germany

Given the government’s stubborn intent to stick with its energy transition and the EU’s Green Deal, in spite of a few forced concessions, Germany is much more vulnerable than the rest of the European Union to the inflation of energy prices, which is making gas and electricity unaffordable for the population and industry. As a result, the EU’s largest economy […]

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