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Mathew D. Rose: Merkel’s Refugee Strategy – A Brown Nose Becomes the Chancellor
Toadying up to dictators and intervening in failed states are major elements of Merkel’s new improved refugee strategy.
Read more...Weak Wall Street Pay Reform Proposals May Have Some Unintended Positive Effects
A long-overdue plan to reform Wall Street pay is seriously flawed but could have a positive effect in spite of itself.
Read more...Why I (Belatedly) Blew the Whistle on the SEC’s Failure to Properly Investigate Goldman Sachs
SEC whistleblower Jim Kidney gives more detail about his experience on the shallow investigation of Goldman and the SEC’s failings generally,
Read more...Sanders Constituency Will Shape U.S. Politics for the Next Decade
Will the Sanders campaign spark fundamental change?
Read more...In America’s Drone Wars, Collateral Damage Comes Home
Why you should care about America’s drone wars: among other things, they radicalize populations against us and traumatize the operators.
Read more...Greg Palast on How the New York and US Elections are Being Stolen
Greg Palast describe the rationale and methods for deep-sixing registered voters.
Read more...Soros Warns of 2008-Like Debt Growth in China. How Risky are Its Banks?
Is China as at much risk as Soros suggests it is?
Read more...Boston “T” FOIA Fight v. Boston Globe Over $25 Million Loss-Making Hedge Fund Investment
The Boston Globe is fighting the MBTA pension fund to obtain records about an investment gone bad recommended by a former insider.
Read more...How European Union Fiscal Rules Subverted Democracy and Institutionalized Neoliberalism
A good overview of how fiscal rules gave neoliberal ideology and unaccountable bureaucrats the upper hand in the EU.
Read more...Robert Reich: Why Is One of Sanders’ Most Important Proposals Being Ignored?
Sanders’ financial transactions tax plan hasn’t gotten the hearing it deserves.
Read more...UK’s Osborne Exempts Members of Parliament, Other “Politically Exposed Persons” From Money Laundering Oversight
The UK exempts Members of Parliament and other Special People from money laundering controls.
Read more...The Rise of the Right Wing Populist: Blame It on the Banks
Contrary to popular belief, the shift to the right is not due to immigration as much as the financial crisis and its aftermath.
Read more...Bill Black: Adam Davidson, the 1%’s Lord Haw-Haw, Mangles Economic Theory to Attack Sanders
Adam Davidson makes numerous misrepresentations about economics in a salvo against Bernie Sanders’ economic plans. Does he really not know better, or has he really drunk the orthodox Kool-Aid?
Read more...Obama Administration Trying to Throw Massive Secrecy Veil Over Past and Future Pilfering of Fannie and Freddie
Why is the government insisting that a huge stash of Fannie and Freddie records deserve state secret treatment?
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