New York Times Gets Budget Story About Looming Trump-Ryan Clash Almost Completely Wrong
Not only does the Grey Lady misrepresent Trump’s and Ryan’s motivations, but they muff budget basics too.
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Free Trade vs Protectionism: Weapon of Mass Distraction
A historical take on the push and pull over “free trade”.
Read more...Gaius Pubilus: Obama and the Perez Election — Are the Democrats Trying to Fail?
After presiding over huge losses at all levels of government by the Democrats, Obama is determined to keep his dead hand on the party.
Read more...Col. Wilkerson: Trump’s Proposed $54 Billion Increase in the Military Budget Not for National Security
Colin Powell’s former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson is Not Happy about Trump’s planned $54 billion gift to the military.
Read more...Bill Black: The 2016 Nobel Prizes in Economics Go to Defenders of Criminogenic Policies
Yet another dubious Swedish central bank fake Nobel Prize award…
Read more...Wolf Richter: How Much Money Laundering is Going On in the Housing Market? A Lot
Treasury is starting to get serious about money laundering in high end residential real estate.
Read more...TaxCast: Financial Transaction Taxes, Trump Hearts Kleptocrats
The current Taxcast tours financial transaction taxes, the Swiss referendum, and dark money.
Read more...Iraq: “Is It Oil?”
Why the Iraq oil problem was not so much access, as in meeting U.S. oil needs, but that U.S. firms had been frozen out of Iraq.
Read more...How Companies Shape Climate Change Agenda: Thousands of Emails from Oklahoma Office of Trump EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Published
Emails document how fossil fuel interests worked with EPA head Scott Pruitt while he was Oklahoma AG to thwart climate change policies.
Read more...Lancet Study on Life Expectancy by 2030 Confirms Poor US Performance
A new Lancet study on life expectancy for 35 countries puts up big red flags for US performance.
Read more...As US Attorney, Trump Labor Secretary Nominee Enabled Drug and Biotechnology Executives’ Impunity
Yet another Trump appointee who was soft on big business misconduct.
Read more...Ian Fraser: What the HBOS Fraud Tells Us About the State of British Banking
The £1 billion HBOS Reading fraud, my part in exposing it, and what it tells us about the state of British banking
Read more...The Term “Deep State” in Focus: Usage Examples, Definition, and Phrasebook
Definitions of “Deep State” compared and synthesized into a definition, with usage examples.
Read more...The Opioid Epidemic and the Face of Long-Term Unemployment
The role the opioid epidemic plays in long-term unemployment.
Read more...Why Extreme Inequality Causes Economic Collapse
A look at how rising inequality becomes systemically destructive.
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