Why You Should NEVER Buy an Amazon Echo or Even Get Near One
Why Amazon’s Echo, Google’s Home, and other “home assistants” are a threat to your privacy.
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European Worries About Isolationist Trends
European leaders ponder how to defend internationalism. They realize that the response to the crisis created innocent losers. But what now?
Read more...LA School Board Ready to Rumble Over Charter Schools
The LA school board is finally cracking down on charter schools’ intransigence.
Read more...How to Fight the Global Wall Street Landlords
Local activists are having some success in fighting Big Finance landlords who have become big, ruthless players in rental housing.
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What the Paradise Papers Tell Us About Global Business and Political Elites
Some observations about the Paradise Papers and the big business of tax avoidance.
Read more...New Potential Credit Risk Bombs: Exotic, ‘Nonlinear’ and Private Transactions
Beware of old CDO risk re-imaged as “nonlinear finance”.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Steven Mnuchin, Foreclosure King of America
A summary of the many reasons to view Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with contempt.
Read more...Damsel in Distress re Atlanta Meetup on Wed November 15! Need Help With Venue
Need reader input re Atlanta meetup venue ASAP!
Read more...The Real Economic Consequences of Martin Luther
How an article by Cantoni, Dittmar, and Noam Yuchtman force fits the Reformation’s economic changes into a neoclassical frame.
Read more...Links 11/7/17
Extreme Poverty Cut in Half? Only in the Minds of the Capitalists
The much-touted fall in extreme poverty is more the result of bad or cherry-picked metrics than real progress.
Read more...CalPERS’ Three Card Monte: Makes Unheard of Benchmark Change to Hide Expected Poor Private Equity Performance to Help Staff at Expense of Beneficiaries, California Taxpayers
Yet again, CalPERS is trying to use optics and dodgy reporting to cover up for real problems.
Read more...Fragmented Health System Paves Way for CVS-Aetna Merger
UserFriendly recommended this Real News Network report, in which Bill Black gives a high-level view of how structural issues contribute to America’s inflated health care costs. AARON MATÉ: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Maté. In what is being called the biggest merger in the history of the health insurance industry, CVS is reportedly making […]
Read more...Why You’ve Never Heard of a Charter as Important as the Magna Carta
How the Charter of the Forest set forth the idea of the commons and managed to survive for over 750 years despite being under attack.
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