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Economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs weighs in on the latest on the Russia-Ukraine war during an interview with The Hill's "Rising." JEFFREY SACHS: You can't make sense of this, it's a zoo. If I am just hearing now, the plan is to illegally seize Russian assets, well kiss goodbye to America's role in the international monetary system. There are limits to what you can do, but I don't think our members of Congress really understand much about this. ... This is purely money down the drain. If they want to rip up another $61 billion, which is not...

Changes to Vatican conference suggest effort to downplay Chinese influenceROME – As the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences prepares to stage a workshop this week on global affairs, changes to the online publicity surrounding the event, including graphics, wording and the lineup of speakers, suggests the Vatican is attempting to downplay what was originally an overtly Chinese focus.Titled “Dialogue Between Civilizations on Global Commons,” the event is being hosted by the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences and is organized jointly by American economist Jeffrey Sachs, a professor at Colombia University, a UN advisor, and a member of the academy; Australian...

Goldman Sachs has abandoned a plan to buy a pricey private jet equipped with its own shower, ... in canceling the order for the shower-equipped model, Goldman likely forfeited a big deposit, with one industry expert estimating it was likely equal to 5% of the purchase price, or $3.75 million. ... The use of a private jet by Goldman CEO David Solomon and other top bankers has reportedly been a source of angst among staffers ... For decades, top bankers at Goldman were loathe to fly on a company-owned private jet — instead opting to assume fractional ownership in an...

and leave and firing them without paying a bonus for their work in the past year Goldman Sachs began slashing 3,200 jobs on Wednesday at its offices in New York, London and Hong Kong in a move to cut back on expenses Sources said the employees were axed in short meetings, and their yearly bonuses were withheld in a move to allegedly spur resignations Many former employees have already taken to LinkedIn to share their shock It comes as CEO David Solomon warned that the investment giant needed to cut costs after its workforce swelled to 49,100 while revenue shrank...

Goldman Sachs strategists are starting to change their tune on the potential for a U.S. recession. "We now see recession risk as higher and more front-loaded," Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a new note to clients. "The main reasons are that our baseline growth path is now lower and that we are increasingly concerned that the Fed will feel compelled to respond forcefully to high headline inflation and consumer inflation expectations if energy prices rise further, even if activity slows sharply." And while Goldman stopped short of saying a recession will occur, maintaining its preview stance, the...

Goldman Sachs plans to lay off as many as 4,000 employees as it struggles to meet profitability targets and retreats from its gamble on Main Street banking, people familiar with the matter said. Managers across the firm have been asked to identify low performers for what could be a cut of up to 8% to its workforce early next year, the people said, with some cautioning that no final list has been drawn up. Those cuts appear to be much deeper than ones taking place at other Wall Street firms like Citigroup, which is letting go of dozens of staffers...

In the News: Interesting Developments from Jeffrey Sachs and Cardinal Gerhard Muller Well, this is interesting.... Jeffrey Sachs, no friend of Catholics, is actually exposing the truth about COVID and the NIH constructing viruses that are more lethal to humans -- "dangerous research." Government "creates stories." It doesn't care about the truth. "This is not real investigation." NIH showed "a lot of bad behavior." Fauci "played the bureaucratic heavy." Lancet (medical journal) said that, "There is a pathway that this could have come out of a lab for sure." The "Fauci shop has not told us the truth....We also...

Pope Francis appointed prominent reproduction rights advocate Jeffrey Sachs as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Dr. Taylor Marshall comments on this appointment and the Sustainable Development Goals.

FRANCIS THE MERCIFUL AND JEFFREY SACHS: Moving the Goalpost in Human TraffickingIn the United Nations, promises are made, promises are broken. Goals set, goals moved. The Vatican and the UN were hoping that people wouldn’t pay attention to the goals they set, especially the one involving human trafficking (8.7). After all, no one should be able to hold these men accountable for failing to fulfill their promise.The Merciful One often chastises the world for its “globalization of indifference.” Catchy phrase, and especially ironic coming from one so indifferent to the suffering victims of clergy sex abuse. Nevertheless, The Merciful One...

Jeffrey Sachs and the Vatican: Silent on China’s Rights AbusesIt remains unclear whether Sachs’ approach to China has had a direct influence on the Holy See’s own dealings with Beijing.VATICAN CITY — The Chinese government continues to be heavily criticized for its treatment of the Uyghurs, an ethnic Muslim minority in the country’s northwest, while the Vatican remains publicly silent — along with one of its influential longtime advisers. A Human Rights Watch report released Monday, titled “Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots — China’s Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims,” declared that the Chinese communist...

Goldman Sachs sold a LOT of stocks friday to the tune of 10.5 billion. Something's up. Link only. Click here for story.

Francis Woos Top Pro-Abortion GlobalistJeffrey Sachs to address Economy of Francesco on 'letting life flourish' VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis has invited the world's foremost proponent of abortion and population control to address his "Economy of Francesco" conference on the theme of "letting life flourish." Jeffrey Sachs with Pope Francis Economist Jeffrey Sachs, a liberal Jew who is president of the United Nations (U.N.) Sustainable Development Solutions Network, will speak at the start of the Assisi conference from Nov. 19–21, which is now being held online due to the Wuhan virus pandemic.A special press office set up for the...

Progressive darling Jeffrey Sachs previously consulted for Chinese regime Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and potential progressive pick for a cabinet position under a Joe Biden administration, appeared on Chinese propaganda outlets throughout the 2020 campaign to blast U.S. foreign policy as an "unholy crusade against China." Sachs, a Columbia University economist, contributed to scathing articles in the Global Times, China Daily, and other regime mouthpieces and has done media hits on state-owned outlets such as the China Global Television Network (CGTN). Sachs has maintained a long relationship with the Chinese government and business elite, which can be traced back to...

Vatican urged to partner with top population controllers on pope’s Global Education Pact Will Pope Francis’s Global Education Pact for a ‘new humanism’ mobilize funding for population control? Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (left) with Jeffrey Sachs. \ ROME, February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — American economist and population control proponent Jeffrey Sachs has announced that potential funding partners for Pope Francis’s May 2020 Global Education Pact to create a “new humanism” include U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, China’s wealthiest business magnate, UNESCO and other United Nations agencies, and the Islamic Development Bank. A key means of population control for Sachs...

The Vatican’s Nest of Globalist Ninnies They stand against America and for the UN. Nesting at the Vatican these days is an astonishing collection of leftists, all of whom recite from the same left-wing catechism as Pope Francis. The Vatican has become the favorite European salon of the George Soros crowd. To say that the Vatican is under enemy occupation sounds hyperbolic but it is not. A steady stream of pro-abortion pols and intellectuals pass through the Vatican every week — from Bernie Sanders to Paul Ehrlich to Jerry Brown to Bill de Blasio to Jeffrey Sachs.This last week Sachs...

[Barf Alert] Population Control Advocate Jeffrey Sachs Attacks Trump Administration at Vatican Gathering Speaking at a Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences event, Sachs claimed the U.S. is operating with ‘thuggery’ and ‘complete lawlessness,’ and warned President Trump’s re-election would be ‘absolutely dangerous.’ The American economist Jeffrey Sachs has used the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences to launch a scathing attack on the Trump administration, accusing it of threatening multilateralism by bullying other nations and saying President Trump’s possible re-election in November would be “absolutely dangerous.” Sachs, a regular participant at the academy and a papal adviser on sustainable development...

Jeffrey Sachs: The White Man's Burden Redux Jeffrey D. Sachs’ presence at the now-concluded Amazon Synod is the dog that did not bark. Why not? The Catholic press describes him as “pro-abortion” and leaves it at that. But it is an inadequate description that evades a larger reality.The synod set in play two different games, a long one and a short. The German-led agenda (e.g. married priests, female ministry, etc.), which absorbed most attention, is the short one. While that covers matters of close concern to Catholics, it functions as a red-herring to distract from the globalist despotism represented by...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia filed criminal charges on Friday against 17 current and former directors at subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) following an investigation into a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal that led to the demise of state fund 1MDB.Those charged on Friday include Richard Gnodde, chief executive of Goldman Sachs International, Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) and a former director at Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, and Michael Sherwood, former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Group.The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the bank for its role as underwriter and arranger of the bond offer....

Biodynamic Agriculture. The Strange Magisterium of “L’Osservatore Romano” The United Nations conference on climate is coming up, to be held in early December in Poland, and the Holy See - or rather the pontifical academy of sciences headed by Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo - has already said its piece, hosting an international conference at the Vatican in mid-November on “Climate change, the health of the planet, and the future of humanity,” and entrusting to the Malthusian economist Jeffrey Sachs the task of dictating the new “decalogue” of salvation: enough with the coal, enough with the oil, enough with the gas,...

Jeffrey Sachs - one of the world’s best-known economists - is also arguably one of the world’s biggest cheerleaders of Pope Francis and believes him to be the most important moral leader in the world today. Sachs, who is not Catholic, has advised the Vatican on papal documents for over 25 years now. Despite having notable disagreements with the Church on issues such as contraception and population control, he’s accepted the call of the last three popes for people of “goodwill” to dialogue with the Church and seek common understanding.Through his work with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Sachs was...