Moodys: Public Pension Underfunding to Worsen as Returns Lag
Moodys give an update on the sorry state of public pension funds’ coffers.
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New Zealand Foreign Trusts: Chickens Coming Home to Roost
After many warnings were ignored, New Zealand Foreign Trusts are now damaging NZ’s reputation overseas
Read more...Peter Van Buren: Five Questions You Probably Won’t Hear in the Presidential Debates
The presidential debates carefully tip-toe around basic foreign policy and domestic security issues. Time to lift the cone of silence.
Read more...GAG, Merrick Garland Edition. (And Krugman Is Just So, So Mystified That So Many Progressives Support Sanders.) –
Yves here. Beverly Mann is angry about Obama’s Supreme Court nominee so you don’t have to be (as much).
Read more...Civilian Control of the Military is Over, Welcome to Civilian Subjugation
Civilian control of the military? Time to disabuse yourself of that quaint notion.
Read more...How the Cutthroat Walmart Business Model Is Reshaping American Public Education
Walmart has played a huge role in promoting and funding the charter school movement and plans to expand much further.
Read more...How Much International Tax Evasion is There?
More experts are working up estimates of the magnitude of cross-border tax evasion, and the amounts involved are considerable.
Read more...Mikhail Lesin’s Corpse Press-Ganged for Infowar by Victoria Nuland
Why is the US government trying to suggest foul play in the death of Mikhail Lesin, after the hotel security, police, and medics at the time said otherwise?
Read more...Former Citi Vice Chairman Robert Rubin, Target of DoJ Investigation, is Too Big to Jail
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released a raft of documents from its 2010 investigation, including interviews with senior government officials like Alan Greenspan, Hank Paulson, and Sheila Bair, as well as other individuals deemed to be prominent like Warren Buffett and subprime short-seller Steve Eisman. It’s hard to see the justification for keeping information from […]
Read more...Nicholas Shaxson: Why “National Competitiveness” is Like Ice Cream
Beware of accounting firms playing with numbers to push tax competitiveness, as in tax breaks.
Read more...Hoisted From Comments: American Education, Then and Now
A query to readers with children in or who have very recently graduated from public school: has education stagnated, as experts suggest, or is it getting worse?
Read more...Gaius Publius: When Trump Talks Trade, Voters Listen
It’s easier for liberals to blame Trump voters for racism than to blame themselves for the job-loss and pain of the working class.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline
Neoliberals want ordinary people to accept that their standard of living will decline. It’s not hard to see whose interest that story promotes.
Read more...HSBC’s Money Laundering Nightmare (2): Mossack Fonseca, a Year in Words and Pictures, March 2015-March 2016
Mossack Fonseca and its trail of street protests: they are in it up to their thighs, and HSBC’s Stuart Gulliver has “no idea”.
Read more...Could This Lawsuit Be the Straw That Breaks the TPP’s Back?
TransCanada has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the US under NAFTA or scuttling its cross-border pipeline. The TPP gives foreign investors even stronger rights.
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