Italy’s New Fiscal Plans: The Options of the European Commission
What could the European Commission do if it decided to discipline Italy for defying budget rules?
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Waste Watch: US Dumps Plastic Rubbish in Southeast Asia
Now that China has banned imports of plastic waste for recycling, US plastic waste exports to southeast Asia surge.
Read more...Costing the Country: Britain’s Finance Curse
More discussion of the downside of having too much finance.
Read more...How Saudi Money Keeps the US at War in Yemen
Following the Saudi funding that has the US backing nation-breaking in Yemen.
Read more...Disaster Profiteers vs. the People of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico shows how distress and grifting too often go hand in hand.
Read more...“That’s a hell of an act. What do you call it?”
Zeitgeist Watch at a Joan Baez concert
Read more...DOJ Sues to Overturn California Net Neutrality Law
Trump’s DoJ yesterday filed a lawsuit to overturn California’s net neutrality law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown earlier during the day.
Read more...Insider Attacks, Blowback, and a Generation of American Folly in the Middle East
Is anything the U.S. doing, anyone it is empowering or arming, likely to make the Middle East or America any safer?
Read more...Avoiding Sepsis Death Traps: Nursing Homes and Hospitals
Sepsis is an enormous health problem in nursing homes and hospitals, unevenly distributed by income and geography
Read more...Why Dodd-Frank Is a Protection Racket for Banks
How Dodd-Frank left banks’ massive lending and safety-net subsidies intact.
Read more...Adam Ashton of the Sacramento Bee Publicizes This Blog (and CalPERS’ Frustration With It)
Adam Ashton of the Sacramento Bee questions why we would want to expose public corruption and incompetence at CalPERS. No, I am not making that up.
Read more...California Treasurer John Chiang Calls for an Independent Investigation of CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Hiring Misrepresentations
California Treasurer John Chiang objects to CalPERS efforts to treat documented evidence of CEO Marcie Frost making repeated misrepresentations about her background as a PR problem and calls for a serious investigation.
Read more...CalPERS’ CEO Marcie Frost’s History of Embellishment and Poor Management Goes Back to Washington
Yet more confirmation of our findings regarding CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s record of misrepresentations.
Read more...How CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Efforts to Organize Astroturf Support Are Compromising Her
If she succeeds, the survival efforts of CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost will come at a cost to the giant pension fund.
Read more...SEC Enforcement Wanes on Trump’s Watch
SEC co-director of enforcement Stephanie Avakian delivered a speech in Dallas last week defending the agency’s enforcement record, as the number of cases brought and amount of fines collected both continue to drop.
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