Tuition-Free or Debt-Free College: Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders Put Band-Aids on the Cancer
A comparison of the Clinton and Sanders campaign platforms on student loans [sic].
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Is America Committing Slow-Motion Suicide? A Look at the Decline of CUNY
The decline of CUNY as evidence that the superrich are killing the rest of us through a slow process of attrition
Read more...MH17 Coroner Michael Barnes, Australian Lawyers in Head-On Crash With the Rules of Evidence
A MH17 case in Australia violates ECHR rules and has a New South Wales coroner suppressing evidence and Sky News doctoring stories post publication.
Read more...More Backlash from London’s Empty Towers
London exemplifies a global trend: property warehoused by the global wealthy, to the detriment of the people who live there.
Read more...Gaius Publius: “Networks are Colluding” to Declare Clinton the Overall Winner Before California Polls Close
The smell of corruption, Clinton-style.
Read more...New IMF Paper Challenges Neoliberal Orthodoxy
A new IMF paper takes on some neoliberal sacred cows.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Tallies DoJ and SEC’s Pathetic Record in Tackling Wall Street Crime
The officialdom continues to defend the half-hearted effort by the DoJ and SEC to pursue financial services industry misconduct.
Read more...Scenes From Paris Protests (and an Update from Alison)
A sighting from the protests in Paris over proposed anti-labor regulations.
Read more...Clinton Chasing Votes With Fracking U-Turn
Clinton’s fracking reversal will alienate the energy industry without appeasing environmentalists, since fracking produces methane and earthquakes.
Read more...IMF Not Funding July Greece Deal, Still Wants Serious Debt Relief Before Committing New Dough
The IMF has not given up on debt relief for Greece, but due to the upcoming Brexit vote, is holding off on the fight until fall.
Read more...Another Day, Another Indication that the Clinton Campaign Remains Dangerously Clueless About What Will Matter Most in the General Election. Ho-hum.
The Clinton campaign keeps harping on identity politics, and ignores some of Trump’s major points of vulnerability. They can’t afford mistakes like that.
Read more...Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin: Corporate Fraud With a Body Count
Yves here. Some of the facts in this article are stunning. For instance, more Americans die from opoid overdose than from car accidents. And this article gives only a partial tally of Purdue Pharma’s predatory conduct. The drugmaker targeted overly-busy, not very well trained general practitioners in communities which were likely to have high incidence […]
Read more...Unsealed Documents Reveal Former White House Officials Violated Fannie/Freddie Conservatorship Rules, Apparently to Advance Bank-Enriching “Reforms”
The Administration has refused to turn over over 12,000 documents in a lawsuit against how the government operated Fannie and Freddie in their conservatorship. The major bone of contention is that Treasury stripped them of all profits, which damaged the remaining private shareholders. But the unsealing of a small batch of government records shows why […]
Read more...The Pentagon’s Budgetary War on Accountability
Why the Pentagon always has the money it needs, and a lot more too.
Read more...SEC Official Defends Weak, Selective Enforcement When Agency Records Show Private Equity Firms Thumb Nose at Agency
Yesterday, we looked at a section of a Stanford Law School conference at the end of March. The panel on pre-IPO funding included the SEC/s head of enforcement, Andrew Ceresney. In the question and answer section, Ceresney and a member of the audience, Marc Fagel, the former regional director of the SEC’s San Francisco office, […]
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