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California State Controller Betty Yee, CalSTRS Board Member Blow Off Union Spokesman on Private Equity Fees

California state controller Betty Yee blows off a union official’s request for carry fee information by saying CalSTRS “is being very diligent,” when CalPERS has already gotten the information.

Links 9/29/15

Is CalSTRS Enabling Election Fraud?

CalSTRS provided what appears to be a doctored record in response to a Public Records Act request about a recent board election.

With Shell’s Failure, U.S. Arctic Drilling Is Dead

Shell has decided to abandon Arctic drilling based on poor exploration results and high costs.

Frances Coppola: The Great Yield Divergence

Puzzling over the Great Divergence of real and nominal yields. Ever since the Great Depression, nominal yields have been persistently above real yields Yet in the previous 200 years, despite periods of fiat currency and high inflation, real and nominal yields didn’t diverge. Why do they now?

Links 9/28/15

Wolf Richter: This is When Bonds Go Kaboom!

It’s getting tougher out there for our QE and ZIRP-coddled corporate junk-bond heroes.

1.5 Million American Families Live on $2 a Day — How the Poorest Get By

An interview with authors of a new book investigating the condition of the poorest in America.

Debacle, Inc.: How Henry Kissinger Helped Create Our ‘Proliferated’ World

If all Henry Kissinger contributed to the Middle East were a regional arms race, petrodollar addiction, Iranian radicalization, and the Tehran-Riyadh conflict, it would be bad enough. His legacy, however, is far worse than that: he has to answer for his role in the rise of political Islam.

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California State Controller Betty Yee, CalSTRS Board Member Blow Off Union Spokesman on Private Equity Fees

Links 9/29/15

Is CalSTRS Enabling Election Fraud?

With Shell’s Failure, U.S. Arctic Drilling Is Dead

Frances Coppola: The Great Yield Divergence

Links 9/28/15

Wolf Richter: This is When Bonds Go Kaboom!

1.5 Million American Families Live on $2 a Day — How the Poorest Get By

Debacle, Inc.: How Henry Kissinger Helped Create Our ‘Proliferated’ World

Links 9/27/15

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