Bailed-Out RBS Systemically Forged Customer Signatures: Whistle-Blowers
It is not an exaggeration to call RBS evil. See some of the reasons why.
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New Study Finds Cancelling Student Debt Provides Broad Economic Benefits at Low Cost
A new study out of Bard will no doubt produce a hissy fit among orthodox economists…assuming they don’t succeed in ignoring it instead In The Macroeconomic Effects of Student Debt Cancellation, Scott Fullwiler, Stephanie Kelton, Catherine Ruetschlin, and Marshall Steinbaum present a detailed examination of the costs of cancelling all student debt, public and private. […]
Read more...There’s a Much Smarter Way for Cities to Plan Their Futures
Why the “smart cities” movement needs to adopt better goals and metrics.
Read more...Economies of States Versus Economies of Cities
Why are some cities doing better than the states they inhabit?
Read more...The Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter
The idea that people are attached to the places where they live has been ignored by economists and politicians, to their peril.
Read more...What Bernie’s Historic 2016 Teaches for 2020
Sanders’ near-win in the Democratic primary with no corporate support was a first, proving that small money plus a serious message can succeed
Read more...Mr. Market Has a Meltdown
Musing on the market swan dive yesterday.
Read more...Banks Wince as Wells Fargo Gets a Harder Than Usual Wet Noodle Lashing from the Fed
The Fed implements some new punishments at Wells Fargo, but this is weak tea when what is needed is rat poison.
Read more...The EU as Britain’s Constitutional Stabiliser?
More than it thinks, Britain may need EU membership to preserve its national integrity and ancient constitutional settlement.
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If You Want to Expand Our Welfare System, Call It ‘Assistance to the Poor’
“Welfare” as a case study in political positioning.
Read more...CalPERS Chief Investment Office Ted Eliopoulos Now Touting Venture Capital Even Though It Can’t Improve Returns
CalPERS is about to embrace yet another bad investment idea.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Trump’s Financial Arsonists
How Trump’s financial deregulators are arranging more gimmies to banks.
Read more...Whole Foods Becomes Amazon Hell Foods as Employees, Managers Quit, Cry on the Job….and These People Want to Run Your Healthcare?
Amazon is being its vicious self yet again, now at Whole Foods.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Do Mainstream Democrats Really Want to Eliminate Carbon Emissions and Fossil Fuel Use?
Following the money tells you how serious mainstream Democrats are about tackling climate change….not.
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