Matthew Cunningham-Cook: A Disgusting, Child-Murdering Vote – On The $1.15 billion Saudi Arms Sale
The US continues to fund a senseless Saudi campaign of starvation against the Yemeni people
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Class Action Lawsuit Against Wells Fargo Seeking $2.6 Billion for Wrongful Terminations Unlikely to Go Very Far
A case arguing that Wells Fargo fired and demoted employees who didn’t commit fraud to meet sales targets, does not deliver the goods.
Read more...Berlin Election Outcome Signals Merkel’s Tenuous Grip on Chancellorship
Yves here. We’ve been saying for some time that Merkel’s hold on power was weakening. As this Real News Network video shows, the recent election results confirm this slippage. Notice that this interview fails to mention that the huge influx of refugees into Europe is the direct result of the US creating failed states in […]
Read more...Report: New Data Disproves US Corporations’ False Narrative on Taxes
A new study on corporate tax havens shows how multinational corporations avoiding U.S. taxes represents a transfer to them from workers.
Read more...Income Inequality in a Globalising World
Absolute inequality around the world has increased, challenging the purported benefit of globalization.
Read more...Backlash Against Trade Deals: The End of U.S.-Led Economic Globalisation?
Why the backlash against the overreach of US trade deals, as embodied by the TPP and TTIP, is well warranted.
Read more...The Private Debt Crisis
Why private debt is so dangerous, and why that risk looms large, particularly in China.
Read more...Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Hidden by Fake Whistleblowing: Former Employees, Including HR Officials, Allege Systematic Retaliation
As short seller David Einhorn says, “No matter how bad you think it is, it’s worse.” That’s proving true at Wells Fargo as former employees allege systematic whistleblower retaliation.
Read more...Negative Effects of Immigration on the Economy
Working through explanations as to why US immigration has been negatively correlated with growth.
Read more...Academic Penury: Adjunct Faculty as the New Precariat
The perilous status of adjuncts, who serve as contingent faculty.
Read more...Theresa May Outs Herself as Wall Street’s Poodle in Brexit Talks
It would be better if the latest Brexit news were a farce….
Read more...Michael Hudson: Celebrating the One Percent – Is Inequality Really Good for the Economy?
The backlash has begun. Prominent economists are upping their game in trying to depict the gains of the One Percent as virtuous and beneficial.
Read more...Wells Fargo’s Management by Magical Thinking Comes Up Short in the Cover-Up Category
The more the press digs into the the sordid details of the Wells Fargo fake account scandal, the more rancid the stench.
Read more...How the SEC Enabled the Gross Under-Reporing of CEO Pay
Why CEOs are even more grotesquely paid than you thought.
Read more...Deutsche Defies DoJ, Says It Won’t Pay Anything Near $14 Billion in Mortgage Settlement
Deutsche has launched a media war against the DoJ.
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