We Speak About Private Equity Rental Housing and SEC Problems on RT
Hope you enjoy this chat about private equity on the RT show Boom/Bust from Friday.
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Growing Public Awareness and Concern About the “Attitudinal Model” of Supreme Court Votes
Finally, the media and analysts are getting a tad more candid about what Supreme Court decisions are really about.
Read more...Links 5/17/14
Randy Wray: What are Taxes For? The MMT Approach
MMT argues that “taxes drive money” in the sense that imposition of a tax that is payable in the national government’s own currency will create demand for that currency. Sovereign government does not really need revenue in its own currency in order to spend.
Read more...Current Problems Associated with the End of the Third Industrial Revolution
The third industrial revolution is long in tooth. What does that portend for investments and the economy?
Read more...The Tragedy of the Soma Mine-Workers: A Crime of Peripheral Capitalism Unleashed
Yves here. This post explains how the horrific mine explosion in Western Turkey, which has officially claimed nearly 300 lives as the death count continues to rise, was not an accident but the direct result of privatization and circumvention of safety standards.
Read more...UK Survey Finds High Levels of Depression and Desperation Among the Young
High levels of un- and underemployment among the young are undermining their mental health. And the damage might be lasting.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit
Michael Hudson discusses the economic and political motives behind making Ukraine a focal point in a new cold war, such as the fact that the Ukraine is an important supplier of military equipment to Russia.
Read more...Links 5/15/14
How the Democrats Are Using Piketty’s Book on Inequality
How Democrats are using Thomas Piketty’s new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, to bolster the party’s flagging fortunes.
Read more...Philip Pilkington: Cody Wilson and the Language of Power
How a conversation with a crypto anarchist put the BBC on tilt and unwittingly provided a lesson in how power issues are kept out of polite conversation.
Read more...More Polite Handwringing About Student Debt Mess
The absence of serious discussion of an only-worsening student debt problem is troubling.
Read more...Links 5/14/14
The Chronic Exporters’ Curse?
Why the much-envied position of being a chronic exporter isn’t quite a bed of roses.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Like So 2000 – Wall Street Pumps Crashed Internet Stocks
Internet stocks are down since March, so they must be a buy….right?
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