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by Tyler Durden Something odd is going on in the US economy. On one hand, in the aftermath of the covid pandemic there are millions and millions of former workers who have lost their jobs and are unable to return as their job may not even exist today (while their skills atrophy and they become increasingly unemployable with every day they are unemployed). Addressing this, on Thursday Fed Chair Powell spoke at an IMF panel saying that over nine million Americans remains out of work, while a quick look at the latest BLS data shows that there are over 100 million Americans who are out of the la...

Many readers are aware of a simulation conducted by the World Economic Forum called Event 201  that preceded the COVID pandemic. Event 201 eerily described and seemed to predict the pandemic. (There was also a pandemic simulation called Clade X that preceded Covid.) What some readers may not know, however, is that the World Economic Forum conducted a similar simulation, Cyber Polygon 2020. This 2020 event  also predicted a global catastrophe. A new cyberattack simulation, Cyber Polygon, will occur in July 2021. The WEF, Russia’s Sberbank, and its cybersecurity subsidiary BIZONE...

Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the Road to Serfdom Posted on Many people think that a universal basic income (UBI) would be a good substitute for the welfare state. Under this proposal, each person resident in a country would receive a guaranteed income, sufficient to live at a modest level. People would get the money unconditionally. Unlike welfare payments, the UBI would not be lessened if people earned money in addition to the amount it provided, and, because it is not means tested—absolutely everyone gets it, even billionaires—it requires no complex bureaucracy to administer. The U...

CBC Radio's The House: Lock down, open up, repeat On this week’s show: ER doctor Lisa Salamon and molecular virologist Marc-André Langlois weigh in on the variant-driven surge of COVID-19 cases across much of Canada. Plus: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh discusses his party’s policy convention. A Michigan state senator reacts to the potential shutdown of the Line 5 pipeline. And The House looks at two proposals up for debate in next week’s Liberal and NDP conventions — universal basic income and a wealth tax. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 03, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Apri...

Kim Lag Jung from Gyeonggi Province was interviewed about the South Korean Youth dividend program. The interview took place at the 2019 Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress in India. The interview covered the dividend and its reported benefit for local youth, local business owners and how it has affected the national conversation about basic income and whether it could be expanded to include more ages. Since 2016, 3,500 South Korean youth have received the equivalent of 1,000,000￦ (US$872) in local currency that can be used at local small businesses. The youth dividend started in Seon...