How Private Equity Bribes Public Pension Fund Officials: Subsidized/Fund-Paid Lavish Travel and Entertainment
Yet more private equity corruption! And see how little it costs to buy the assent of public pension fund employees.
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Why News of Population Decline and Economic Slowdown Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing
Why handwringing about population decline is the wrong reaction.
Read more...All Presidents Avoid Reporters, but Biden May Achieve a Record in His Press Avoidance
An effort to rationalize Presidential and by extension other politicians’ minimizing interaction with the press.
Read more...Links 2/28/2023
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai on Dollar Imperialism
A deep dive on the development of the dollar system.
Read more...The EV Revolution Brings Environmental Uncertainty at Every Turn
As demand for electric vehicles ramps up, environmental stumbling blocks have emerged.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Two: Losses Top $33 Billion But Uber Has Avoided The Equity Collapse Most “Tech” Startups Experienced
An update on Uber financial fakery and continued lack of bona fide profits.
Read more...How Howard Schultz Made Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse
Does Stabucks CEO Howard Schultz deserve the title of labor enemy #1?
Read more...Links 2/25/2023
5 Reasons Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine
The so-called Collective West and the rest of the world have a yawning gap in how they view the war in Ukraine.
Read more...Jim Chanos: The Golden Age of Fraud in Finance
Famed short seller Jim Chanos discusses the ever-rising role of fraud in the US financial system and his views of China.
Read more...One Texas Judge Will Decide Fate of Abortion Pill Used by Millions of American Women
Abortion foes have opened another potentially big front with an attack on the FDA approval status of an “abortion pill” medication.
Read more...Roundtable with Gonzalo Lira
Your humble blogger goes solo with Gonzalo Lira.
Read more...Jared Holst: The Criminal Value Chain
Police reform schemes avoid addressing the causes of criminal activity, most of all poverty. But that would mean giving nice things to people
Read more...In Rural America, Right-to-Repair Laws Are the Leading Edge of a Pushback Against Growing Corporate Power
After years of efforts to advance right-to-repair rules, farmers are starting to get traction.
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