Has CalPERS’ General Counsel Lied to Its Board About Our Suit?
Is CalPERS’ General Counsel trying to pull a fast one on its board?
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Bill Black at TED Explains How Insiders Rob Banks and Cause Crises
A presentation by Bill Black disproves that TED only features elite-flattering conventional wisdom.
Read more...Links 3/12/14
Don Quijones: Round Two Of The Global Financial Sector’s Takeover Of Spain
Few have it quite as bad as the tenants of a growing number of social housing projects in Spain who are finding out their new dodgy landlords hail from Wall Street.
Read more...New In-Depth Study Shows How Debt Collectors Abuse Legal System and Borrowers
The Loyola Consumer Law Review has just released an important paper by Peter Holland of the University of Maryland Francis School of Law. It’s a large scale statistical study, the first of its kind. Its conclusions are not pretty.
Read more...Bill Black Slams New York Times for Wink and Nod Endorsement of Criminal Conduct
Bill Black is so steamed about a recent New York Times story on the indictment of former partners of the failed law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf that he’s written two posts about it. And they say a great deal about what is rotten at the New York Times.
Read more...Washington Does Not Have a Natural Gas Weapon Against Moscow
To many, the answer to the specter of Russian natural gas dominance is clear: unleash America’s natural gas abundance and displace Moscow. But will that work?
Read more...Links 3/11/14
Trans-Pacific Partnership Reveals Deadly Cost of American Patents
How debates over the TPP overseas show how extortionate the US pharmaceuticals regime really is.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Neoliberalism, “Just Desserts,” and the Post-Climate-Crisis Economy
Gaius examines the connections between neoliberalism and the convulsions that climate change will bring to the world.
Read more...17 Million Reasons Rent Control is Efficient
Wealthy investors love to talk about the sanctity of contracts until little guys assert their rights. Then the idea that they might have to fork over a lot of dough to get the other side to give up its right is presented as an offense against nature.
Read more...Bitcoin is Not a Currency
Bitcoin is not a currency any more than gold bars or collectable baseball cards are. And that has serious implications for this “innovation”.
Read more...Links 3/10/14
Ilargi: Big Oil and Gas Wars
We live in a world built on such an overkill of 24/7 propaganda and misinformation that some of it easily slips by. Especially when the topic is the Ukraine.
Read more...Even the Chinese Can Tell the TransPacific Partnership is Unlikely to Get Done
You know it’s bad when parties who aren’t at the negotiating table can tell a deal is going pear-shaped.
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