NSA Whistleblower: Not So Fast On Claims Russia Behind DNC Email Hack
Why you should be skeptical of the party line that the DNC was victimized by Russians.
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Meet CalPERS Board Member Bill Slaton, Who Puts Kow-Towing to Private Equity Over Beneficiaries and California Taxpayers
CalPERS Investment Committee vice chairman Bill Slaton exemplifies many of the pathologies of the board.
Read more...How Much Do Shady Financial Practices Cost You, Exactly?
The average U.S. household loses over $100,000 to destructives activities of bankers and financiers
Read more...How the ECB is Officially Above the Law
If you think the US has trouble holding the Fed to account, we are in light years better shape than Eurozone citizens are with the ECB.
Read more...Study: Top Bank Execs Saw the Crisis Coming and Sold Their Company’s Shares
So much for the “whcouddanode” theory of the crisis.
Read more...After Supporting Treasurer Chiang’s Private Equity Transparency Bill in Public, CalPERS Gutted It Behind the Scenes
Yet more evidence of CalPERS’ chicanery on behalf of the private equity industry.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Two Ways of Looking at a Plagiarism
Trust me, this post on Melania Trump’s plagiarism does not go where you expect it to go.
Read more...Dodgy New Zealand Companies: Mapping Their Global Footprint Since 2009
New Zealand’s scam companies: a map of their global footprint
Read more...Uncovered California: Why Millions Have Fallen Into Health Care Gaps
How Covered California, the best Obamacare implementation in the US, still falls well short of its promise.
Read more...Sanders Delegation Plotting in Public and Secretly to Shake Up Democratic Convention
Many Sanders delegates are planning rearguard actions at the Democratic convention.
Read more...How California Targets Poor People of Color for Profit
California cities take a page from the Ferguson playbook: targeting poor minority group members people for fines, in this case traffic fines.
Read more...Will Italian Banks Tear Down Europe?
Will Italian banks be the detonator of a political and economic crisis?
Read more...Louis Proyect: Misusing German History to Scare Up Votes for Hillary Clinton
Distorting German history so as not just to equate Trump to Hitler but also to equate the left with Weimar socialists.
Read more...8 Countries Where Rampant Inequality Has Led to Violence
Yes, Virginia, inequality is dangerous but that does not stop many of the really rich from wanting more. us.
Read more...Warren, Sanders, Brown, Merkley, Reed, 4 Other Senators, Ask the SEC to Get Out of Bed on Private Equity
As strange as it may seem, eight Senators ganging up on the SEC over yet another private equity lapse is a sign of a change in the zeitgeist.
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