A case example of how Financial Times Moscow bureau reporters give advertorial promotion an oligarch applying to the City of London to raise debt and equity finance, buying London and country real estate; and deterring investigation of their business with British libel law firms.
Read more...Pam Martens and Russ Martens published a mind-boggling expose yesterday on how the SEC is refusing to stop an abuse by major banks that increases systemic risk.
Read more...The Bank of Greece submitted a required report on monetary policy to the Greek Parliament and the Cabinet this morning. The English language version of the press release shows that it says, in stark terms, that failure to reach a pact with Greece’s creditors will lead to a Grexit and likely a departure from the European Union.
Read more...How climate change denialists have opened up a new front in their attacks on climate science.
Read more...The long-anticipated verdict in the AIG bailout trial came yesterday, and the Fed is not happy.
Read more...There’s a growing recognition within the legal community that the ISDS provisions of treaties like NAFTA, TPP, many trade agreements already signed and almost all agreements going forward … may well be unconstitutional
Read more...After a decisive defeat on TAA, a provision which needed to be passed to secure Fast Track approval, the Administration is trying to secure a stealth reversal.
Read more...An explanation of the votes on TAA and Fast Track last week, and the options open to the Administration for trying to reverse this defeat.
Read more...Another day, yet another private equity exposé, this one on an atypically simple-minded scam.
Read more...Both sides in the Greece/creditor negotiations have said they have reached the limits of what they are prepared to give.
Read more...The idea that a loyal ally like Australia is even considering not signing the TPP is yet another sign that the deal is in trouble overseas as well as in the US.
Read more...Hoexter examines the disconnect between the preferred methods of climate activists versus the magnitude and urgency of the issues they are trying to address. His analysis echoes an important 2012 post by Richard Kline, Progressively Losing.
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