Richard Murphy: Davos Wants a Better Measure of Failure
Some Davos musings show that our elites aren’t what they are cracked up to be.
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Starting the New Year Badly and Well
Handicapping the new year based on early indicators.
Read more...6 Ways the Trump Shutdown Is Hurting the Country
A short tally of some of the damage done by the partial Federal shutdown.
Read more...Another Win for Fossil Fuels: EPA to Weaken Basis for Calculating Mercury and Future Environmental Standards
At the behest of fossil fuel interests, Trump’s EPA seeks to change the way of calculating future benefits of environmental rules and thus undermines 2011 mercury emissions standards — even though power plants have already invested to comply with the rules.
Read more...CalPERS’ Private Equity “Fire, Aim, Ready”: Railroading Board by Screening Candidates Before Scheme Approved; Seeking to be Victimized Again by Silver Lake Partners
Another CalPERS PR gambit backfires, revealing yet more problems with CalPERS private equity scheme.
Read more...Piketty’s World Inequality Review: A Critical Analysis
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.
Read more...These 2018 Corporate Scandals Demonstrate Why the New Democratic Congress Must Crack Down on Corruption
Though Mueller’s revelations have shocked the American public consciousness, they were not the biggest financial scandals of the year.
Read more...PG&E Could Face Murder Charges for California’s Wildfires
Will PG&E finally get its just deserts? And even if that were to happen, what would that look like?
Read more...How the International Monetary Fund Imposes Its Economic Policies on Argentina
The IMF has a long history of strong-arming the direction of Argentina’s policies and economy.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Vocabulary of Economic Deception
Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging interview, discussing the importance of euphemism in obscuring power relationships and exploitation.
Read more...How Immoral Are Laissez Faire Ideologues? Ask About Drones.
Drones illustrate why lack of regulation isn’t such a hot idea.
Read more...Fracking in 2018: Another Year of Pretending to Make Money
The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on the fracking beat. The industry lacks even the excuse of profit to justify the environmental costs it inflicts – yet this is a story too little told in the rest of the media, which instead promotes further investments in this sector.
Read more...The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (II)
Commentary on the inadequacy of the UK’s proposed Limited Partnership Reforms
Read more...CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost Pressed Senior Staff to Wear Burgundy to Show Loyalty
No matter how bad you think it is at CaPERS, it’s worse.
Read more...Why Is CalPERS Out to Give Roundly Defeated Ex-Board Member Priya Mathur a Glamorous Boondoggle, and Poke a Stick in the Eye of Beneficiaries and Board Members in the Process?
CalPERS again insists on doing the wrong thing.
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