Category Archives: Banana republic

Steve Bannon v. Blinkered Economists on “Free Trade”

Macroeconomists are making Steve Bannon look good.

The Ludicrous Prepper Plans of the Super Rich

A perverse bit of good news: the super rich aren’t planning their survival moves any better than they are executing their leadership roles.

Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism

How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.

Ilargi: Negative Interest Rates – Rogoff Cribs from Orwell and Kafka

The war on cash, to enable central banks to implement negative interest rates on ordinary citizens, continues.

Financial Regulatory Rollback Proceeds

No new legislation is necessary for financial regulatory rollback to proceed. Enforcement priorities fail to target Wall Street.

Fiduciary Rule: Helps Not Hurts Wall Street, So Full Rescission Unlikely

WSJ says fiduciary rule helps Wall Street, so rescission unlikely. But still may be better for retail investors than previous status quo.

Wall Street Journal Deigns to Notice Costly Indiana Toll Road Failure, Depicts It as Isolated When Toll Roads “Consistently” Go Bust

Toll road projects have consistently failed over the last decade and a half, but you never hear that in the mainstream press.

Trump as “Consequence, Not Cause” of the Collapse in the Post Cold War Consensus

How press and pundit fixation on Trump diverts public attention from power structures that work against ordinary Americans.

GOP and Democrats Push Trump on Tax Reform

Both parties only have sketches of tax reform plans, and each has basic deficiencies.

Private Equity Flouts State Regulations by Buying Medical Practices

State regulators have ignored private equity firms buying medical practices when many states bar non-MDs from owing them.