CalPERS’ board has hired a fiduciary counsel, Robert Klausner, who has been associated with scandals for over a decade, the latest in Jacksonville, Florida.
Read more...CalPERS’ CEO and its staff are engaged in systematic, flagrant, and apparently long-standing violations of California’s open meeting law, the Bagley-Keene Act.
Read more...More on the ground readings on the impact of austerity in Greece.
Read more...Yves here. Readers know I have a weakness for righteous rants…
Read more...Why China’s slowdown and exported deflation started far earlier than most pundits and analysts would have you believe.
Read more...Robert Jenkins, a former banker, hedge fund manager, and regulator, points out that regulatory reform has fallen short on multiple fronts, and perhaps the most important is courage.
Read more...Empire-booster-in-chief Niall Ferguson gets yet another well-deserved shellacking, this time on how he falsifies the record in drawing lessons from Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Read more...Support Occupy the SEC in opposing a bill that would give white collar criminals a new, improved “get out of jail free” card.
Read more...Clinton looks like a carbon candidate who is making predictable rhetorical gestures otherwise to fool the rubes.
Read more...How Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s remarks to the DIet about the TPP reveal a lot about the aims of this deal and its vulnerabilities.
Read more...Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Adair Turner, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and former Chairman of Britain’s Financial Services Authority (2008-13), is the author of a new book that takes aim at economic and political orthodoxies, Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and […]
Read more...Announcing a contest with cash and prizes for the winners! And it’s to poke a stick in the eye of avarice! What’s not to like?
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