Matt Stoller: Big Oil Hooked Americans on Credit Cards
The credit card industry gets short shrift when it comes to history.
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Wolf Richter: The Next Tire To Drop On The US Economy
After the last few years of strong sales growth, the US auto industry may be headed for a world of hurt. If that happens, the US economy would suffer too.
Read more...Has the Developed World Hit “Peak Car Use”?
Yves here. While this piece provides a solid overview of the fallen status of cars, it misses an obvious contributor to the lack of enthusiasm for them among the young: with weak incomes and in many cases, heavy student debt loads, an automobile is too large an expense relative to what they get out of it.
Read more...Slate Tries Presenting Amazon’s Abusive Warehouse Jobs as Great Opportunities
A mere day after strikes at Amazon warehouses in Germany, which caught the attention of the media in the US, Slate ran as its lead piece in Moneybox an article that bears all the hallmarks of being a PR plant: Amazon Warehouses Are the New Factories.
I suspect the author, Emma Roller, wouldn’t recognize a factory if it fell on her.
Read more...CNI (UK) and its Lawyers Complain to Blogs, But Appear to Shy Away From the Daily Mail
CNI (UK)’s confusing attitude to its connections with Carbon Neutral Investments, service provider to carbon scams
Read more...Surely the Lotus F1 Team Isn’t Just Slinking Quietly Away From Its Embarrassing Team Partner, AGT?
Lotus F1 quietly drop AGT from their Official Team Partner list just after Naked Capitalism tells the world that AGT’s a scam.
Read more...The UK Insolvency Service’s Oddly-Timed Carbon Scams Press Release Highlights Its Own Slow Response
A sceptical look at anti-carbon-scam enforcement activities in the UK.
Read more...Newcastle United FC, Bloodhound SSC, Glitz, Glam and Police Raids: a Last Look at the Remarkable Double Life of Carbon Neutral Investments Limited (CNI)
A last look at the lovely contact list of scammers’ friends, Carbon Neutral Investments Limited
Read more...The Lotus Formula 1 Team, Its Embarrassing Partner, Advanced Global Trading of Dubai, and Carbon Neutral Investments
On the Lotus Formula 1 team’s unfortunate entanglement with Advanced Global Trading of Dubai.
Read more...McLaren F1 & Jenson Button One Minute, Boiler Room Scams the Next: the Remarkable Double Life of Carbon Neutral Investments, Limited, (CNI)
Naked Capitalism notes that Carbon Neutral Investments, subject of a consumer warning by the UK’s FCA, has deals with Formula 1 teams McLaren and Sauber, Lord Heseltine’s publishing firm Haymarket, Newcastle United Football Club, and a host of PR and events companies, and wonders what the hell is going on.
Read more...Carbon Neutral Investments’ Trail of Disaster: How Carbon Credit Con Artists use Google Adwords to Work the Recovery Scam
Carbon Neutral Investments and the ‘recovery room’ scam
Read more...The Careless Organizers of Gumball 3000 are Hooked Up with Boiler Room Scam “Servicers” Carbon Neutral Investments (CNI)
The Gumball 3000 event is helping a deeply dodgy British firm with its marketing.
Read more...FBI Raids, Lord Heseltine’s Haymarket Media Group, Financial Regulator “Crackdowns”, “What Car” Magazine…and Carbon Neutral Investments Limited
How two wide boys with shady pasts snared a leading British publisher that has major political connections.
Read more...The Glam and The Scam: Sauber Formula 1 Team and its Partner, Carbon Neutral Investments, Limited
The Sauber F1 team and their dodgy partners, Carbon Neutral Investments
Read more...The Decline and Fall of Detroit
The bankruptcy filing and underlying train wreck of the once prosperous city of Detroit carries so much symbolic and practical baggage as to be beyond the scope of a single post. So rather than attempt to do a deep dive, particularly since the media and various experts are still weighing in, I thought I’d offer some high level observations and let readers provide more information, observations, and links.
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