CalPERS’ Comment on Naked Capitalism Reveals Mid-Level Network Security Deficiency; What Else Might Be Wrong?
An IT professional’s take on a CalPERS security lapse:” It looks like their network security monkey is pretty lazy.”
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NYC Meetup This PM With Lambert (and Michael Hudson)!
If you live in the NYC area, hope to see you at our meetup later today!
Read more...Be Sure to Join Our NYC Meetup With Lambert Tomorrow, May 31
A reminder: our NYC meetup is tomorrow. Hope to see you!
Read more...Links 5/27/17
Why Withdrawal or “Tiny” Living Isn’t a Solution to Sustainability
Tiny but isolated living may not be doing the planet as much of a favor as many like to believe.
Read more...The New New Deal
The myth of the virtues of markets is past its sell-by date. Time for a new guiding principle, and the New Deal may be the place to start.
Read more...Europe’s Faustian Bargain with Big Finance
An overview of the cost of Europe’s failure to rein in its financial institutions and the options for bank and Eurozone reform.
Read more...Links 5/26/17
The White House Flouts Ethics Rules
Even though the Trump Administration is far from a model of probity, it is managing to find new ways to skirt ethics rules.
Read more...Down the Memory Hole: Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia
Trump’s ever-changing explanations, “alternative facts,” and program of destroying Federal data is straight out of Orwell’s “memory hole”.
Read more...Dumb Things Politicians Say About Health Care Policy
Unintended self parody on health care…if only this were a joke.
Read more...Don Quijones: Catalonia Threatens Spain with “Financial Bloodbath”
Yet another European debt/austerity-induced game of chicken, this one of Catalonia v. Spain.
Read more...Trump’s Budget Delivers Big Oil’s Wish: Reducing Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Trump seeks to deliver on another Koch Brothers pet idea: selling off part of the strategic petroleum reserve.
Read more...Yet Another Video Shows U.S.-Funded White Helmets Assisting Public Executions in Rebel-Held Syria
Why reporting by and about the State Department funded White Helmets needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.
Read more...Debt Relief or a Fourth Financial Assistance Program for Greece?
Greece continues to be broken on the rack of austerity. How far might the IMF’s insistence on reducing the pain level actually get?
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