Killing a Parasite, Part 2 — How to Implement Student Debt Cancellation
How to fix the student problem – now and going forward.
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So Bad the DoJ Woke Up: Saline Bag Makers Look to Have Endangered Patients Via Illegal “Tying” and Price Gouging
Saline bags are a new example of medical industrial complex rent extraction that also put patients at risk.
Read more...Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Why it might make sense to pay heed on what the Mafia hath wrought….
Read more...Top NYT Editor: ‘We Are Pro-Capitalism, the Times Is in Favor of Capitalism’
The Times swears its fealty to the 10%, um, capitalism…
Read more...Trump’s Tariff Threat to Kick Off Trade War?
Trump is threatening to kick off a trade slugfest via tariffs on steel and aluminum. Will he follow through?
Read more...With Official Unemployment This Low, Why Are Wages Rising So Slowly?
Why has wage growth been lousy in a supposed recovery? Thank your politicians for fostering the growth of the precariat.
Read more...Why CalPERS Private Equity Outsourcing Beauty Show Is Arbitrary and Capricious
More evidence that CalPERS is making a hugely important and costly decision in a cavalier, even reckless, manner.
Read more...All Guns, No Butter: Military Contractors as Welfare Queens
The Trump budget is particularly shameless in providing more pork to the military despite the absence of any genuine pressing need.
Read more...Killing a Parasite — Canceling Student Debt, Part 1
How student debt is killing its host.
Read more...Trump SEC Fails to Pursue Aggressive Deregulatory Agenda (Albeit from Previous Pathetic Baseline)
WSJ reports Trump SEC has failed to pursue an aggressive deregulatory agenda; legislation necessary to disable securities framework further.
Read more...Bill Black: Once a Poster Child for Austerity, Latvia Becomes a Hotbed of Corruption
Bill Black discusses how in two years Latvia has morphed from poster child for austerity for the financial press to a nest of banking corruption.
Read more...Inside the Trump Admin’s Fight to Keep the Keystone XL Approval Process Secret
The Trump Administration has been withholding documents in the ongoing suit against the Keystone XL pipeline.
Read more...Trump’s Bogus Infrastructure Plan Takes the U.S. Further Down the Road of Rentier Capitalism
The public-private partnerships Trump proposes are a sick neoliberal joke.
Read more...Treasury Proposes Dubious, Untested Chapter 14 Bankruptcies for Too Big to Fail Banks
Treasury released an ideologically-driven proposal to change Dodd Frank’s resolution authority.
Read more...Law Professor Proposes Bringing Back Indentured Servitude
Indentured servitude is the new idea for how to get immigrants to come to American at less than minimum wage pay.
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