CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost continues to damage her already-tarnished name by flogging a hare-brained private equity “new business model” for which she cannot provide a coherent justification.
Read more...Michael Hudson on his themes of how banks are mainly funding real estate rather than the economy and the problem of failing to write down debt that can’t be repaid.
Read more...China has more of a glass jaw than most economics commentators thought. But how is Trump’s trade war likely to progress?
Read more...Does capitalism breed pathology?
Read more...A key piece of stripper-turned-MAGA bomber Cesar Sayoc’s slide into financial ruin.
Read more...Why the time is overdue to have politics give much higher priority to reducing suffering.
Read more...Is Trump serious about lowering drug prices in the US? And even if he is, how far might his plans get?
Read more...How Silicon Valley giants like Amazon and Palantir team up with ICE to hunt down immigrants, pick out the innocent as potential criminals, and build the cloud for Defense Department and CIA.
Read more...Why the European Copyright Directive would have a disastrous impact on the Internet, and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...The US and China are even more visibly at odds than usual.
Read more...Some surprising findings on why labor force participation of prime age men is flagging.
Read more...Yet another hard/crashout Brexit train wreck: implementing adequate border controls.
Read more...Last call for our 2018 fundraiser. Help make it the best one evah!
Read more...The countdown begins…
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