This is a wide-ranging interview with Bill Black on a subject of the keen desire of the public to see more corporate officials prosecuted for big business misdeeds, and why that never happens these days.
Read more...Did climate change denialists like Exxon coordinate their activities, as Big Tobacco did to foster doubt about smoking’s role in lung cancer? If so, what would it take for RICO prosecutions to occur?
Read more...A recent report slammed public pension funds for losing money relative to what they could have done by investing in high fee strategies like private equity. And that’s even before incorporating the fact that private equity returns are overstated.
Read more...Greece, which has undertaken the most severe austerity, has experienced the deepest economic contraction. But the policy quackery continues.
Read more...The ramifications for the diesel industry as its reputation as cleaner fuel comes under scrutiny.
Read more...Is nervousness and an apparent spending pullback limited to New York City affluenza, or do readers see a change in mood in their communities?
Read more...One big private equity tax abuse, management fee waivers, is on its way out. Will others follow?
Read more...How the nuclear weapons industry keeps itself out of the public’s eye despite its huge costs and risks.
Read more...Exxon knew as early as 1977 that earth’s climate was being seriously disrupted, and would continue to be disrupted, by carbon dioxide emissions. Yet in the 1980s they pivoted to financing an aggressive climate denial effort .
Read more...Tax-free junk bonds. High real estate and transactions fees. High consultants’ fees. Lack of transparency. A charter school Ponzi scheme.
Read more...Nicholas Shaxson explains how a “Competitiveness Agenda” is being used to set industrial policies that favor the creation of what used to be called “national champions,” as in Really Big Companies. Never mind that neoliberals officially oppose anything so interventionist as industrial policy….
Read more...The evidence that SEC Chairman Mary Jo White needs to go becomes more overwhelming with every passing day.
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