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Tax Astroturf: The B-Team Lowers the Bar for Tax Transparency
Quelle surprise! The B Team, a supposed top group for “responsible business,” punts on tax transparency.
Read more...The Free Market Threat to Democracy
Democracy is not under stress – it’s under aggressive attack, as unconstrained financial greed overrides public accountability.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Obama Energy Secretary Named to Board of Utility Giant
Obama alumni taking revolving door Big Energy jobs puts paid to the idea that Dems are less beholden to corporate interests than the GOP.
Read more...Wells Fargo Screws Customers Yet Again, Now Failing to Make Right on Abuses; Elizabeth Warren Demands Answers
Wells Fargo is still up to no good…
Read more...Monopoly Now Wants You to Cheat—Just Like Real Capitalists
Bad monopoly behavior, both in the classic game and in real life, are ever more in vogue. But a backlash has begun.
Read more...Financial Markets Have Taken Over the Economy. To Prevent Another Crisis, They Must Be Brought to Heel.
A detailed and well-argued explanation of how the growth in the role of financial markets has become destructive.
Read more...Government Shutdown Once Again Shows the Lies Behind Deficit Hysteria
How the wealthy use deficit scaremongering to keep wages down and stave off calls for more investment and social spending.
Read more...An Aetna “Fake Accounts” Level Scandal? Medical Director Admits He Never Reviewed Medical Records Before Denying Care
An Aetna medical director said he didn’t review any cases, a bombshell admission even for one doctor, and damning if a normal practice.
Read more...After Carillion, Can Capitalism Clean Up Its Act? Or Will Marx Have the Final Word?
Will Carillion and other pending outsourcer blow-ups finally put Thatcherism in its grave? And will the US have a similar wake-up call?
Read more...Why CalPERS’ Private Equity Outsourcing Scheme Is Likely to Hurt Returns
Why CalPERS’ private equity outsourcing scheme is likely to leave the funds’ beneficiaries and California taxpayers worse off.
Read more...The Age of Lunacy: The Doomsday Machine
The lunacy of current Trump foreign policy is not unprecedented. This RNN interview discusses similarly unhinged incidents from the 1950s and 1960s.
Read more...UK Asks the Rest of the World to Be Super Duper Nice and Act as Its Old Deals Are Still Valid Post Brexit
Yet another Brexit train wreck.
Read more...The Payback: Why Aren’t Black Voters Rewarded by the Party That Depends on Them to Win Elections?
The Democrats don’t do much for black voters, and it’s getting a bit too obvious.
Read more...Bailed-Out RBS Systemically Forged Customer Signatures: Whistle-Blowers
It is not an exaggeration to call RBS evil. See some of the reasons why.
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