Taxcast: The #LuxLeaks Tax Deals – Still No investigation? Plus Amazon’s $0 Federal Tax Payment
This month’s Taxcast focuses on why the LuxLeaks deals are getting a free pass, the financialization of aid, and Amazon’s tax machinations.
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Striking Teachers in Denver Shut Down Performance Bonuses – Here’s How That Will Impact Education
Denver teachers were able to put an end to a performance bonus system they argued was capricious. What impact might this change have?
Read more...Want to Pass Medicare For All? Make Voters Happy By Making Them Happy
Looking at the largely lame excuses for not implementing Medicare for All.
Read more...CalPERS Election Vendor Votem on Verge of Failure Just as CalPERS Board About to Approve “Business as Usual” Election Notice
More proof that CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost is so busy with self-promotion that she can’t be bothered to have her staff execute adequately on important but not-that-difficult tasks.
Read more...CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng Lied About Private Equity to State Senator Dr. Richard Pan at Joint Pension Committee Hearing
CalPERS lied to the wrong person. State Senator Dr. Richard Pan is smart enough to know he was snookered when word gets back to him.
Read more...CalPERS’ Management Continues to Lie to Its Board and Beneficiaries About Its Private Equity Scheme
CalPERS is once again up to no good on the private equity front.
Read more...And Now This Message From Some Very Rich People: ‘Please Raise Our Taxes’
Some wealthy people point out they wouldn’t even notice, much the less mind, the sort of increases in taxes now under discussion.
Read more...Brexit: The Test of the Ultras?
Another supposed big Brexit day in Parliament. Will this prove to be yet another damp squib?
Read more...A Study in Professional Power: Why Do the Big 4 Accountants Survive?
How the Big 4 accountants cemented their position and why that matters.
Read more...“Reverse Location Search Warrant”: A New Personal Data Hoovering Exercise Brought to You by Google
Welcome to reverse location search warrants, yet another technology-enabled violation of your Constitutional rights.
Read more...Pelosi Advisor Proposes Non-Binding Arbitration as Road to Lowering Drug Prices
Team Dem contemplates non-binding arbitration as a fix for high drug prices. Help me.
Read more...India Forces Amazon to Choose Between Operating e-Commerce Platform and Selling Goods on that Platform
New rules just came into effect in India that force Amazon to remove products for sale through vendors in which they have an equity stake, meaning Amazon must choose between whether it wants to control the platform, or sell its products. It cannot do both.
Read more...Believing Six Impossible Things Before Brexit
Everyone around her is so weak that May still is very much in charge of Brexti, and that’t not a good outcome.
Read more...Are Investors Finally Waking up to North America’s Fracked Gas Crisis?
The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent coverage on the fracking beat for DeSmog Blog.
Read more...AOC Campaign Finance Primer Goes Viral
Some thoughts on AOC’s campaign finance primer, after video goes viral.
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