RBS Looted Small Business Customers, Deliberately Driving Thousands in Bankruptcy, While Under Government Ownership
How RBS destroyed thousands of small UK businesses for fun and profit.
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Not So Wondrous Drugs? – New Warnings about Severe Adverse Effects of New, Heavily Marketed Drugs for Hepatitis C
Dangerous diseases like hepatitis C make it a bit too easy for drugmakers to peddle wonder cures….
Read more...Ham-Handed Theresa May “Hard Brexit” Stance Roils UK Pols, Not Just EU
Theresa May may have thrown a spanner in the Brexit works by pushing for a xenophobic “hard Brexit”. Accident or design?
Read more...Private Equity Double Standard: California’s John Chiang, Other State Officials Happily Ding Headline-Grabbing Wells But Look Other Way With PE
State officials like California Treasurer John Chiang eagerly sanction an easy target like Wells Fargo. But private equity? Fuddedaboudit.
Read more...Economic ‘Recovery’ Feels Weak Because the Great Recession Hasn’t Really Ended
We are not in a recovery and we’re not really in a traditional recession. People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can’t revive.
Read more...Be Sure to Catch Lambert’s Presidential Debate LiveBlog/Open Thread Tomorrow at 9 PM EDT
Lambert is again putting on his yellow waders to host another debate confab. Hope you will join him!
Read more...Latest Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 2
How reformers and labor leaders were co-opted by capitalists waving the Third Way banner.
Read more...Calling All Wells Fargo Whistleblowers!
We have published extensive whistleblower reports and encourage former and current Wells Fargo who’ve witnessed sales abuses to contact us.
Read more...Don Quijones: Rescue of Italy’s Monte dei Paschi Gets ‘Dark’ & ‘Complicated’
As Monte dei Paschi flounders, details of past chicanery emerge, implicating Deutsche Bank, Normura, the Bank of Italy, and Maro Draghi.
Read more...How Trump and Clinton Gave Bad Answers on US Nuclear Policy….And Why You Should Be Worried
As tensions with Russia rise, neither Presidential candidate gave a straight answer on the use of nuclear weapons.
Read more...Don Quijones: Stealth Bailout of 2 Franken-Banks Now Happening in Spain
Another bailout of two of Spain’s franken-banks: mostly state-owned Bankia and wholly state-owned Banco Mare Nostrum (BMN).
Read more...Cerberus Uses Private Equity Looting Strategy With Scandal-Ridden Steward Health Care Hospitals
How Cerberus is using a real estate looting strategy to salvage its purchase of Steward Health Care….at the expense of the operations, natch.
Read more...Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 1
The birth of the Third Way —a turn away from class-struggle politics and a compromise with neoliberaism—and how it shaped the Eurozone.
Read more...Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf Tries to Brazen Out Fraud as Congressmen Call Wells a “Criminal Enterprise,” Demand Breakup
Stumpf has another deservedly bad day in the Congressional hot seat.
Read more...CalPERS General Counsel Matt Jacobs Lies to Board, and Staff Abuses Authority, to Stymie Public Input
Why general counsel Matt Jacobs’ record of misrepresentations, omissions, and slipshod advice makes him a danger to CalPERS.
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