CalPERS Out of Control: Stunningly High Number of Personal Trading Violations, Yet Board Ignored the Misconduct
CalPERS yet again manages to exceed expectations in a bad way.
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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton With Michael Hudson: How The US Makes Countries Pay For Its Wars – Economics Of American Imperialism
Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own occupation.
Read more...The Campaign Memo Bernie Never Listened To: Did Sanders Run the Most Clueless Modern Political Campaign?
Lambert here: This is the strongest statement of what I might call “the drawing distinctions thesis” I have seen, here distinguishing Sanders from Warren (as opposed to from Biden, as proposed by Sirota). Looking at the concrete proposals, I think that “3) The Obama years must be discredited” (as often proposed by Stoller) would be […]
Read more...Links 4/26/2020
Why Don’t We Just Provide an Emergency Basic Income to Businesses?
The Small Business Administration’s Payroll Protection Program has been a mess
Read more...Links 4/25/2020
Diary of Samuel Pepys Shows How Life Under the Bubonic Plague Mirrored Today’s Pandemic
Samuel Pepys’ emotional roller coaster during a plague outbreak, and search for treatments in a medical fog, suddenly seems familiar.
Read more...Is There Deflation or Inflation in Our Future?
We don’t have a recovery in sight, but some economists are already worried about inflation.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/24/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 stats, Biden (fundrasing, #MeToo, Larry Summers), Nina Turner on idpol, Trump (undecided voters, presser and analysis of subsequent hysteria), AOC, Milwaukee convention, food shortages, rail, medical goods, scooters, Zoom, nationalizing Big Oil, Finnish baby box
Read more...‘No Warming, No War’: Report Details How US Militarism and Climate Crisis Are Deeply Interwoven
“In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.”
Read more...Links 4/24/2020
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton With Michael Hudson: US Coronavirus “Bailout” Is a $6 Trillion Scam
Michael Hudson explians why the coronavirus bailouts are even more of a gimmie to the rich than they look.
Read more...Coronavirus-Induced Food Supply Disruptions Hitting Farmers, Poor Consumers
Food scarcity is already starting to bite in the US and is likely to become a serious problem in much of the world.
Read more...Become a Manufacturing Powerhouse in 2020—An Economic Recipe for Our Times
On bringing manufacturing back home.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/23/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 data, Allan Lichtman’s keys, Biden (veepstakes, SuperPACs), Sanders (Post Office, NY ballot), Trump (#COVID19), Jeffrey Sachs on failed states, unemployment, toilet paper, AirBnB, Apple, supply chain, hydroxychloroquine, video game coaching, Ellen, Juggalos
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