Why Positive Thinking Won’t Get You Out of Poverty
The New York Times condescends to people in poverty.
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Shall We Kill the Hay Exports or the Cows?
Hay has become a scarce resource in Australia, and not for the best reasons.
Read more...If You Read This Book, It’ll Make You a Radical: A Conversation with Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank on what’s the matter with America.
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Michael Olenick: Digging Into Data on the Student Loan Scam
A data dive shows that the student loan business is at least as bad as you think it is.
Read more...Fighting Opioid and Painkiller Addiction
How the misapplication of an early study on opioid addiction risk help pave the way for overly-casual prescription of these drugs.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Big Oil Seeks Billions from U.S. Government to Protect It From…Climate Change
Big oil seeks yet another handout.
Read more...Former Official Criticizes CalPERS Board Member Richard Costigan’s Defense of CEO Marcie Frost’s Lies
A salvo against CalPERS board member Richard Costigan for his dubious defense of CEO Marcie Frost’s resume misrepresentations.
Read more...Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
The chief architects of the exercise in looting otherwise known as the post-crisis rescues are back promoting more of the same.
Read more...Holding the Line on Torture
An update on the struggle to get US mental health professionals out of the business of advising on torture techniques.
Read more...Why Is CalPERS Aggressively Promoting Internet Voting Despite Experts Like the National Institute of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Saying “Hell No”?
More proof that CalPERS has no shame.
Read more...Financial Times’ FundFire Unambiguously Confirms Our Reporting of Misrepresentations by CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost
Financial Times’ FundFire reporter Fola Akinnibi has written three stories this week that referred to misrepresentations made by CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost during and after her hiring by the giant pension fund. His latest report, CalPERS CEO Misstated Educational Background During Hiring Process (no online version) not only flatly calls out Frost’s falsehoods, but also […]
Read more...More Evidence that Private Equity Funds Fail as Investment: No Outperformance v. Stocks, Higher Volatility
Yet more data confirming that private equity is not what it is cracked up to be unless you do it in house.
Read more...Democrats Can Block the Kavanaugh Nomination If They Want To
By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow him on Twitter @Gaius_Publius, Tumblr and Facebook. GP article archive here. Originally published at Common Dreams If Democratic votes put Kavanaugh on the Court, the nation will be harmed […]
Read more...As Musk Goes Nuts Publicly, Tesla Bondholders Get Antsy
Rising bond yields pose a problem to Tesla’s survival.
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