Jay Clayton’s SEC Lets Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Get Away With Brazen Fraud
The SEC did Elizabeth Holmes a monster favor with its pathetic settlement over her “massive” Theranos fraud.
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Thousands of Students Protest Gun Violence
A first-hand report on some of the student gun protests in California.
Read more...Senate Expands ‘Lobbyist Bill’ to Deregulate Real Estate
Why the plan to weaken regulation of commercial real estate lending isn’t such a hot idea.
Read more...What Is CalPERS Trying to Hide? Plans to Eliminate Transcription of Board Meetings, A Giant Step Backwards in Transparency and Accountability
CalPERS plans to take a big step backwards in terms of governance and credibility via getting rid of transcription of board meetings, when the cost is a pittance compared to the benefits.
Read more...50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Last Speech: Have We Left the Haunted House?
King described the problem of structural racism in his final speech and how the US commitment to Vietnam was hurting blacks disproportionately. What if anything has changed?
Read more...Hiding from the Tax Man, International Wealthy Style
Tax avoidance is an ever-evolving game. Some fresh information on which countries are willing to offer a helping hand to the rich.
Read more...Puerto Rico Update: Forests, Power, Depopulation, and Privatization
Puerto Rico’s situation is causing Naomi Klein to rethink “shock doctrine.”
Read more...Meet the Democrats’ ‘Dirty Dozen’ Working to Gut Financial Reforms
Yet again, the Democrats sell out voters to moneyed backers, this time ones in the banking industry.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Trump’s Travesty of Protectionism
Why Trump’s tariffs hit the wrong target.
Read more...Monetary Policy and Fiscal Discipline: How the ECB Planted the Seeds of the Euro Area Crisis
How the ECB did Euro-area member states a dirty when it tried to act as deficit enforcer.
Read more...Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: How WTO Retaliation Typically Works
A review of some of the permitted counter-moves under WTO rules if Trump imposes tariffs.
Read more...How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut
Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations.
Read more...Crash Out Brexit Now the Defender Position
Brace yourselves! Why a “crash out” Brexit is now the most likely outcome.
Read more...How the Democrat’s Corrupt Congressional Pay-to-Play Machine Sabotages Progressives and the Popular Will
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a study in corruption and a vehicle for maintaining elite control.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Slams Democrats for Helping Gut Financial Regulations
The financial services industry is about to get even more unnecessary, risk-feeding breaks, thanks in no small measure to Democrats.
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