How Did Trump Win? Follow the Dark Money
A major new study says an infusion of “dark money,” plus declining unionization rates, were factors that helped deliver the Trump upset.
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Patient Dumping: A “New” Cost Savings Strategy for Hospitals
Some hospitals have put indigent patients out on the street, clad only in hospital gowns, something that was previously unthinkable.
Read more...UK Consternation Over EU Not Accommodating City of London in Brexit…Just As It Said It Would Not Do
The UK financial services is being told “no” yet again….will the message finally sink in?
Read more...The International Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump
The Trump Administration sees no value in international economic institutions or cooperation, abandoning the role of steward of the system.
Read more...Dutch Police Plan to Take Clothes and Watches from People They Deem to be Dressed Too Well
The Dutch police, claiming to be targeting gangs, has a nasty new asset seizure strategy that sound like it is based on racial profiling.
Read more...Ilargi: Shithouses
How Trump’s widely deplored shithouses comment was an unintended, uncomfortable truth about US policy.
Read more...Fallout from Carillion Collapse Hits KPMG
Carillion collapse demonstrates Big Four auditing firms are not only too big to fail, they’re too big to replace.
Read more...Rewriting the History of the Vietnam War, to the Detriment of Everyone Save the Military-Industrial Complex
Identifying the main players behind Vietnam War revisionist history and how they have succeed in forging disastrous policies.
Read more...Puerto Rico’s New Power Struggle: Privatization
Puerto Rico announces plans to privatise its public utility, even though many residents still lack power 4 months after Hurricane Maria.
Read more...Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The ‘Revolving Door’
An update on one of the biggest users of DC revolving doors: health care industry executives.
Read more...Rail Workers Acquitted in Trial on Deadly Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster
A jury acquitted front line workers in the horrific Lac-Mégantic “bomb train,” but the higher-ups have not been held to account.
Read more...A Day in the Life of an NHS Nurse – How Our Government Is Failing Both Patients and Nurses
Nurses are leaving the NHS, and that’s no accident.
Read more...Amazon Scores Two More $5+ Billion Bids
More grifting, Amazon-style.
Read more...Fiduciary Counsel Ashley Dunning Encourages CalPERS to Muscle Actuary to Change His Forecasts of Funding Needs
How CalPERS’ fiduciary counsel encouraged its board to pressure its actuary to produce more politically-convenient results.
Read more...More on the Opiate Abuse Epidemic: Where Again Does the Finger Point?
Debunking some pet conservative myths about the opiate crisis.
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