A new paper shows that public pension fund investment in “alts” like real estate and private equity hurt returns and failed to lower risk.
Read more...To fight COVID-19, the European Union must recognize that spending restraints have to go.
Read more...Covid-19 bankrupties show how the disease is draining the economy.
Read more...If Covid-19 can’t be beaten soon, how do we cope?
Read more...Yves here. Readers sometimes ask for success stories to show that there are possible paths out our present economic and social morass. The Basque has long operated a collective ownership model centered around Mondragon. And it has been successful in protecting the community from economic crises. I was in Portugal and Spain, by happenstance doing […]
Read more...Why Nafta 2.0 labor protections for Mexicans are key to whether the deal delivers on its promise to US workers.
Read more...Biden acts like the heartless pol he is. He can’t keep up the pretense if someone wants to get between him and insurer profits.
Read more...The latest unemployment data calls into question the notion that anything more than a techical recovery is underway.
Read more...Payday loan abuses are baaack, thanks to a full bore lobbying effort.
Read more...CalPERS latest beneficiary e-mail had misrepresentaions that even the toothless SEC would sanction.
Read more...Why Gilead’s price gouging for its Covid-19 treatment remdevisir is even more egregious than you thought.
Read more...Private equity profiteering in prisions and education demonstrates why their enthusiasm for socially responsible investing is a con.
Read more...Deutsche Bank revealed again as being overly accommodating to clients who play fast and loose….this one Jeffrey Epstein.
Read more...Quelle suprise! E-money is facilitating financial fraud. And the UK’s FCA is unduly accommodating.
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