CalPERS board members and staff have violated state conflict of interest rules to a degree that appears to be criminal.
Read more...The continuing rise in wealth of the super rich bodes ill for financial and social stability.
Read more...In typical Trump fashion, Trump managed to get himself in more trouble while trying to poke a stick in the eye of his opponents.
Read more...Even with health care polling as the top issue with voters, Trump is one of the loudest, but far from the only, politician out to demonize single payer.
Read more...More proof that the scandal involving CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s resume misrepresentations are not going away any time soon.
Read more...This important post discusses the link between climate change and increased plastics production via the creation of a Plastics Belt in the former Rust Belt, using natural gas derived from fracking.
Read more...One of the reasons little has changed in economics despite the financial criss showing it to be deeply flawed is the power of the “top five” journals, which show both inbreeding and clientelism.
Read more...Does capitalism breed pathology?
Read more...But I want to talk about the western “experts” in Washington and London who cozied up to @ShamiWitness — especially since all of them are still around, many of them bigger and more influential in our political discourse than ever.
Read more...Why the European Copyright Directive would have a disastrous impact on the Internet, and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...Latest updates on the right to repair, discussing crucial skirmishes in the ongoing war on waste. The Economist recognizes the important issue, and US DHS supports Apple’s spurious, anti-repair claims.
Read more...Grocery chains as yet another example of private equity looting, and what policymakers should do to stop that.
Read more...This Real News Network segment with journalist Max Blumenthal and EFF’s David Greene discusses Facebook’s new practice of erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter.
Read more...It’s no secret that globalization created losers, and the Democrats seem determined to ignore them.
Read more...Italy’s government debt yields are rising thanks to a budget standoff with Brussels, and Italian banks are looking more wobbly too.
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