#riggedmarkets — Public Fediverse posts

You might be living in a rigged economic system if...

"From the start of the 2020s, American businesses have been formidable in maintaining and growing their profits. Despite a gantlet of challenges — a pandemic, tariffs, high inflation and wars in key commodity hubs — profits have leaped ahead."
#corporatism #riggedmarkets #economy #corruption #banks #oligarchy #plutocracy #businesses #inflation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/economy/companies-profits-prices-iran-war.html

It's comical how incompetent, weak, and compromised all the leaders of the West are. The Legion of Doom barely has to fart and the former Western powers start flailing. Of course, the mealy mouthed, chubby masses can't think or want to ask why we are here, so this is what we get.
#UK #Britain #Labour #politics #Epstein #corruption #corporatism #RiggedMarkets #neoliberalism #KeirStarmer
https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/02/09/keir-starmer-a-sick-man-who-cant-afford-to-catch-a-cold

‘Wall from which Banksy’s Ibex goat was removed at Kew Bridge has been daubed with paint’ A critique against the commodification and abduction of art by the investors who have captured the art market? Time for artists to unionise and end the exploitation from those who drive the poverty of inequality and injustice. #RiggedMarkets #ArtFreedom #Democracy #ArtRepresentatives #ArtDelegates #FreedomFromFascists #FreedomFromFascistMobMarkets https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/wall-from-which-banksys-ibex-goat-was-removed-at-kew-bridge-has-been-daubed-with-paint/

The story of how Mr. Trump came to intervene in Honduran politics and align himself with a foreign terrorist organization is essential for understanding the world he is trying to build.... His actions may seem contradictory. But there is a coherent logic to them: They expand territorial power for a class of transnational elites who believe they’re above the law.
#authoritarianism #oligarchs #fascism #Trumpism #policy #corporatism #RiggedMarkets
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/opinion/prospera-honduras-trump-pardon.html

President Trump threatened to increase tariffs on South Korean exports because the country had not ratified a trade deal with the United States quickly enough.
#Korea #USA #trade #tarrifs #economics #clientelism #riggedmarkets
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/economy/trump-tariffs-south-korea.html

No fvck Sherlock: "The study, called “Ruling for the Rich,” concludes that the wealthy have the wind at their backs before the justices and that a good way to guess the outcome of a case is to follow the money."
#corruption #plutocracy #oligarchy #riggedmarkets #legal #aristocracy #greed
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/supreme-court-study-rich-poor.html

No one ever said Americans were intelligent people.

"As I dug into the research, something far more important than the specific dollar estimate of an average family’s loss emerged: Trump’s economic policies have put the nation on a long-term path of decline, in terms of gross domestic product, employment, capital investment and wage growth."
#collapse #authoritarianism #Trumpism #econmics #RiggedMarkets #corruption #CostofLiving #tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/opinion/trump-affordability-crisis-hoax.html

"High-frequency traders pay for an advanced look at [market] information so they are in an unfair position. They know the prices before the ordinary investors they are trading against.’ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-32246655.amp

Taking a larger snapshot, the boom and bust bubble market is suspect. Foreknowledge as in insider trading paves corruption, and the tech sector and others before it are deliberately pumped and dumped to cover debt and provide finance. In short, deregulatory markets are rigged like a casino. The house being owned by the ultra rich oligarchs and plutocrats, is there to preserve and protect their totalitarian world order and its programme of ecocide! #RiggedMarkets #EcocideEmpire #CasinoCapital #HFT

Canada loves monopolies and oligopolies.

Edward Rogers will have achieved his long-desired goal of total power over Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), if a $4.7-billion deal to snap up Bell Canada’s 37.5 per cent stake is completed, making Rogers Communications the majority owner of the Maple Leafs, Raptors, Toronto FC and Argonauts.
#Toronto #RogersTown #MapleLeafs #Raptors #TorontoFC #Argonauts #RiggedMarkets #TOpoli
https://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/a-monopoly-on-toronto-sports-mlse-deal-gives-edward-rogers-full-control-of-city-s/article_b78f5714-75b9-11ef-abeb-d335ab81d119.html