NJ Nursing Home Shutdown: Profits vs. the Elderly

NJ Nursing Home Shutdown: Profits vs. the Elderly

On the Friday before Labor Day weekend, Princeton Care Center, a for-profit nursing home in Princeton, New Jersey, notified its 72 elderly residents that they were closing, and that the building would need to be vacated within 12 hours! For months, the owners of the...
Hedge Funds Profit Off High Food Prices and Human Misery

Hedge Funds Profit Off High Food Prices and Human Misery

Following “momentum driven” algorithms that automatically determine when to buy or sell commodities at the most profitable moments as their prices rise and fall, a group of 10 major hedge funds bought up huge amounts of wheat, corn and soybeans in the months leading...
A World of War = A World for Profits

A World of War = A World for Profits

We are living in a world dominated by war. For those in the middle of the wars it is a life of chaos and crisis. In the U.S. and other countries distant from the fighting, the wars have other impacts. Regardless of what we are told, the wars have the same underlying...