Tom Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can’t Levitate a Broken Economy
How central banks’ policy remedies have taken big steps backwards.
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Gaius Publius: Best Buy National Repair Techs Routinely Search Customer Devices, Act as “Paid Informers” for FBI
Best Buy’s repair operations are part of the surveillance state.
Read more...House Passes Koch Brothers-Backed REINS Act that Weakens Gov’t Regulatory Agencies
How the stealthy REINS Act would hamstring all Federal regulators.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: How the US Blew the Post-Cold-War Era
Why the end of the Cold War and the era of the US as the world’s sole superpower has not worked out as well as predicted.
Read more...Trump’s Win: America’s Failures of Representation and Prospects for Democracy
Looking at why Trump won and the implications for his presidency.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Elephant in the Room Is a Donkey (Reflections on Kamala Harris)
An incident from the history of newly elected senator Kamala Harris, known in California for being an opportunist even by political standards.
Read more...Will Trump Take the Poisoned Chalice of Firing CFPB Director Richard Cordray?
Why firing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray would probably turn out to be a win for Democrats.
Read more...Don Quijones: Power & Profit Fuel War on Cash in Europe
Be warned: European officials have already starting taking tough moves in the war on cash.
Read more...Republicans Likely to Pass “Audit the Fed”
“Audit the Fed” is likely to become law. It’s about time.
Read more...Corporate Censorship of Independent Sites Has Begun
The corporate war on progressive outlets has started.
Read more...How Taxpayers Subsidize AirBnB’s Cheap Prices
How you lose when AirBnB wins.
Read more...A Tale of Two Retirements: The Great Divide Between CEOs and Everyone Else
Pension, compensation, and tax rules exacerbate inequality, fueling a huge gap between retirement benefits for CEOS and ordinary workers.
Read more...Ilargi: 2017 – Where the Truth Lies
‘Respectable’ news outlets have been feeding their readers ‘fake news’ for years now. 2017 will see changes in the offing, as we downsize.
Read more...A Battle Over American-Made Products Is Looming and Republicans Are in the Middle of It
Why “Buy American” is going to be a tough sale for Trump.
Read more...Chanos: Is a Big Change Underway in Global Capitalism?
Storied short seller Jim Chanos takes a long view of recent political and economic changes, including, of course, the Trump win.
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