ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
News and commentaries that reveal historical facts and trends that place current events into perspective and make it possible to anticipate future events.
Saudi Arabia is creating a $2-trillion Public Investment Fund that is set to be ‘the largest on Earth’. It will be able to buy Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Berkshire Hathaway and have money left over. The purpose of this fund is to diversify Saudi investments in preparation for ‘the end of the oil age’. DailyMail posted 2016 Apr 2 (Story) (Cached)
US: Last December, the Department of Justice suspended its ‘equitable-sharing’ program that allows local police to keep 80% of any assets they seize on mere ‘suspicion of wrongdoing’. This week, that asset-forfeiture program was reinstated. [Expect policing-for-profit to return to America with a vengeance.] RT 2016 Mar 31 (Story)
