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.
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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.
Read more...PR Powerhouse to Democrats: Don’t Be Mean to Starbucks
The Starbucks lady doth protest too much.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
Trump’s neocon extremists are burning the US dollar house down.
Read more...Millionaire-Driven Education Reform Has Failed. Here’s What Works.
Journalist Andrea Gabor’s new book heralds a “quiet revolution” in education you didn’t know was happening.
Read more...An American Budget
What a sound national budget might look like.
Read more...Venezuela Coup Attempt Part of US Plan to Remake Latin America
Unfortunately, US support of the attempted coup in Venezuela is just one part of planned interventions south of the border.
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