CalPERS Backs California Treasurer John Chiang’s Private Equity Transparency Legislation; Where is CalSTRS?
Can CalSTRS be trusted to do the right thing on proposed private equity transparency legislation in California?
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Hooray! Met Our Second Target Pronto, On to the Third!
Thanks for the support! On to our third fundraising target: support for the valuable guest writers on this site.
Read more...Links 10/16/15
Wolf Richter: Debt Fueled Stock Buybacks Now Eating into Earnings
Companies with investment-grade credit ratings – the cream-of-the-crop “high-grade” corporate borrowers – have gorged on borrowed money. Interest on that mountain of debt, which grew another 4% in the second quarter, is now eating their earnings like never before.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: The Fog of Intelligence, or How to Be Eternally ‘Caught Off Guard’ in the Greater Middle East
An in-depth look at the US’s big-ticket intelligence apparatus that can’t shoot straight in the Middle East. A bug or a feature?
Read more...Michael Perelman: The Essential Handbook for Engineering an Unequal Society
While the thrust of Perelman’s post is no doubt familiar to readers, take note of how simple and few in number are the essential principles for creating a highly unequal society, and how easy it is to describe them them in antiseptic language.
Read more...Clive: Naked Capitalism – Your Ammunition in the War for Information
In the face of the seemingly overwhelming disparity of power what can those of us who want to change the balance do?
Read more...Occupy the SEC Condemns Securities Lawyers for Bullying the SEC, Demanding Preferential Treatment for Clients
A video shows how the very premise of the SEC’s role, and that of regulations generally, is under intense assault by the private bar.
Read more...Wow, Met Our First Goal Quickly, On to Our Second!
We’ve hit our target quickly, and are moving faster than at the same time last year. Our second target is for travel for conferences, meetups, and other troublemaking.
Read more...Trading Away Land Rights: TPP, Investment Agreements, and the Governance of Land
The nvestment provisions in the TPP and in most bilateral investment treaties can severely limit a government’s ability to manage its land and other natural resources in the public interest.
Read more...Links 10/15/15
Sanders Debate “Results” as Case Study of the Modern Versailles Hall of Mirrors
Bernie Sanders by all objective measures “won” the first Democratic party debate. Yet pundits almost universally said the reverse. What does that tell us about the state of American politics?
Read more...Gaius Publius: Slave Trafficking, TPP & the 2016 Presidential Contest
Progressives have been handed a wonderful opportunity to make a “strong move” against both TPP and slave trafficking — but only if they’re willing to take it.
Read more...Fundraiser 2015: Help Us Make More Trouble!
Naked Capitalism is the the business of making trouble. Help us make even more in the upcoming year by contributing to our fundraiser.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: Should the US Federal Government Invest $4-$6 Trillion Per Year on Climate Protection? (Part 2 of 2)
Further discussion of why the excuses to do nothing or too little on the climate change front don’t hold up to serious scrutiny.
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