Mike Whitney - Archive

Markets Gone Mad: Shaking Off Six Years of the Fed’s Zero Rates and Liquidity Injections By Mike Whitney, September 25, 2015
Putin’s “Line in the Sand”: No “Regime Change” in Syria By Mike Whitney, September 17, 2015
Market Volatility. It’s All About Expectations; Why Are Stocks Going Berserk? By Mike Whitney, September 12, 2015
Return to Crisis: Things Keep Getting Worse By Mike Whitney, September 02, 2015
Looting Made Easy: the $2 Trillion Buyback Binge By Mike Whitney, August 28, 2015
Swan Song for the Donald? GOP Party Bosses Plan to “Take Out” Trump By Mike Whitney, August 10, 2015
Donald Trump’s Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System By Mike Whitney, August 08, 2015
The Politics of Betrayal: Obama Backstabs Kurds to Appease Turkey By Mike Whitney, July 31, 2015
Picked Out a Coffin Yet? Take Ibuprofen and Die By Mike Whitney, July 26, 2015
Is the Iran Nukes Deal Aimed at Crushing Putin? By Mike Whitney, July 17, 2015
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising By Mike Whitney, July 13, 2015
The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” for Ruling the World By Mike Whitney, July 05, 2015
Putin Gobsmacks Uncle Sam … Again By Mike Whitney, July 03, 2015
China Syndrome: Why the PRC Won’t Get Sucked Into a Pointless War with the United States By Mike Whitney, June 24, 2015
Seven Days in May? US Global Hegemony, “Asymmetric Warfare” Directed against China By Mike Whitney, June 17, 2015
Seven Days in May? US Global Hegemony, “Asymmetric Warfare” Directed against China By Mike Whitney, June 17, 2015
U.S. Policy towards China: The Skirmish in the Spratlys By Mike Whitney, June 08, 2015
U.S. Policy towards China: The Skirmish in the Spratlys By Mike Whitney, June 08, 2015
Pivot Insanity: Why is Obama Goading China? By Mike Whitney, May 30, 2015
Splitting Up Iraq By Mike Whitney, May 09, 2015
The Rich Get Richer: Titanic Stock Bubble Fueled by Buyback Blitz By Mike Whitney, May 08, 2015
If You’re Black in America, the Rules are Different By Mike Whitney, May 02, 2015
Obama’s “No Growth, No Jobs, No Recovery” Economy Gives Up The Ghost By Mike Whitney, May 01, 2015
Why Obama Wants to Lift Sanctions on Iran By Mike Whitney, April 27, 2015
US and the Lausanne Negociations: Another Idiotic Plan to Hurt Russia By Mike Whitney, April 20, 2015
Saudis Face Defeat in Yemen and Instability at Home By Mike Whitney, April 14, 2015
Washington’s War on Russia By Mike Whitney, March 19, 2015
NATO Lies and Provocations: Splitting the Atlantic Alliance By Mike Whitney, March 10, 2015
How Putin Blocked the U.S. Pivot to Asia By Mike Whitney, March 09, 2015
Varoufakis vs. the Troika. Showdown in Athens By Mike Whitney, March 01, 2015
Varoufakis Keeps Greece in the Eurozone, by its Fingernails By Mike Whitney, February 24, 2015
Ironman Varoufakis’s Revolutionary Plan for Europe By Mike Whitney, February 19, 2015
Greece and the Eurozone By Mike Whitney, February 18, 2015
Crunch Time in Minsk: Will the German Chancellor Bring Peace to Ukraine? By Mike Whitney, February 11, 2015
The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine By Mike Whitney, February 08, 2015
The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine: The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow By Mike Whitney, February 06, 2015
Draghi’s “No-growth”: Quantitative Easing Money for Stocks, Zilch for the Economy By Mike Whitney, January 26, 2015
Are Plunging Petrodollar Revenues Behind the Fed’s Projected Rate Hikes? By Mike Whitney, January 21, 2015
Down the Plughole: 40 years of Economic Policy in One Chart By Mike Whitney, January 15, 2015
Oil Price Blowback: Is Putin Creating a New World Order? By Mike Whitney, January 06, 2015
Did the U.S. and the Saudis Conspire to Push Down Oil Prices? By Mike Whitney, December 29, 2014
Ruble Takedown Exposes Cracks in Putin’s Defense By Mike Whitney, December 20, 2014
Ruble Takedown Exposes Cracks in Putin’s Defense By Mike Whitney, December 19, 2014
Will Falling Oil Prices Crash the Markets? By Mike Whitney, December 12, 2014
“Talking Turkey” and Gas Pipelines: Putin’s Groundbreaking Deal with Turkish President Erdogan By Mike Whitney, December 07, 2014
Defending Dollar Imperialism: Ukraine War Driven by Gas-Dollar Link By Mike Whitney, December 01, 2014
“Strong Economic Medicine” and Regime Change at the IMF: Does the Name “Strauss-Kahn” Ring a Bell? By Mike Whitney, November 25, 2014
Vox Populi: Readers Comments Show anti-Putin Propaganda Not Working By Mike Whitney, November 24, 2014
Recession in Japan Sends Shares Tumbling By Mike Whitney, November 18, 2014
Afghan Opium Production Hits All-Time High By Mike Whitney, November 16, 2014
US Elections: Obama Leads Democrats to Midterm Massacre By Mike Whitney, November 07, 2014
Debt on Wheels: Subprime Loans and Auto Sales By Mike Whitney, November 06, 2014
15 Reasons Why Americans Think We’re Still in a Recession By Mike Whitney, November 01, 2014
Risky Business: “Easy Money”. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Loosens Lending on Mortgages By Mike Whitney, October 29, 2014
Happy Black Thursday: Do Tumbling Buybacks Signal Another Market Crash? By Mike Whitney, October 25, 2014
Happy Black Thursday: Do Tumbling Buybacks Signal Another Market Crash? By Mike Whitney, October 23, 2014
The Fix is in: Fed Stops Stock Slide with Talk of Quantitative Easing (QE) Extension By Mike Whitney, October 20, 2014
Stocks Plunge 460 Points on Quantitative Easing (QE) Exit By Mike Whitney, October 16, 2014
The Ukraine, as we Know it, is Gone Forever By Mike Whitney, October 15, 2014
America’s “Terrorist Academy” in Iraq Produced ISIS Leaders By Mike Whitney, October 06, 2014