OCC Covering Up for Wells Fargo Type Abuses at Other Banks
The OCC found lots of bad bank conduct in retail-land, but refuses to say anything about who is cheating and what they are up to.
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Unsafe At Any Speed Redux, Self-Driving Cars, and Legal Liability
Senators seek information on testing protocols for self-driving cars; mandatory arbitration for further lawsuits involving such vehicles looms as a threat.
Read more...Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual lynchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean.
Read more...How Puerto Rico’s Death Toll Was Ignored, and Could Have Been Avoided
Why the death toll in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria was so disgracefully high.
Read more...NIRP’s Revenge: Italian Bonds Plunge, Worst Day in Decades
Markets wail and gnash their teeth as normalization of Italian yields sets in.
Read more...The Left as the New Enemy Within: Domestic Wargaming Exercise Includes “Progressive” AntiGlobalist Baddies, Um, Terrorists
Apparently needing to justify spending and domestic surveillance, military exercises depict leftie future terrorists as official threats.
Read more...Do Fewer Settlements by Pharmaceutical Companies Mean Even Less Accountability for Their Execs?
Drug company settlements with the Feds, which never were very tough to begin with, are also becoming less frequent.
Read more...US Supreme Court Ordered Desegregation, then Conservatives Worked to Demolish Public Education
How desegregation led to a concerted attack on public education.
Read more...Lib-Pop Politics: Italy’s New Government Is More Neoliberal Than Populist
Italy’s much ballyhooed populism is looking a lot like a sellout.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Progressive Democrats Help Enshrine “Blue Lives Matter” Into Law
“Progressive” Democrats back “Blue Lives Matter,” an effort designed to undermine Black Lives Matter.
Read more...Payday Lending Rule Survives…For Now
Congress has failed to use Congressional Review Act procedures to scupper the payday lending rule. Pending CFPB and court challenges may still doom the measure.
Read more...Bill Black: Trump Admin Halts Investigation of For-Profit Colleges
Bill Black discusses Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s decision to stop investigating for-profit colleges and educational institutions for fraudulent practices.
Read more...The Populism Backlash: An Economically Driven Backlash
Quelle surprise! The rise of populism correlates strongly with increases in economic insecurity.
Read more...Social Multipliers in Crime: Measuring the Spillover Effects of Criminal Behaviour
An example of how the peer environment influences crime levels.
Read more...California Hospital Giant Sutter Health Target of Anti-Trust Suit, Legislation for High Prices. Will It Set a National Precedent?
Will California officials succeed in curbing aggressive pricing by hospital network Sutter Health? Could these efforts set a precedent for other markets?
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