Social Security Privatizer Larry Fink of Giant Asset Manager BlackRock is a Clinton Treasury Secretary in Waiting
Social Security enemy Larry Fink appears to have troublingly high odds of becoming the Clinton Treasury Secretary nominee.
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Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll Announce It Just as Soon as the Republican Presidential Candidates Tell Us Theirs
Clinton offers no details on her healthcare insurance scheme while her allies attack Sanders plan, often with easily debunked arguments.
Read more...A Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline is Next to a Nuclear Power Plant. What Could Go Wrong?
Someone needs to remind the overseers of old nuclear power plants that tail risks are greater than they think.
Read more...Was Clintonomics Good for Working People?
Why Clintonomics does not live up to its PR.
Read more...John Helmer: FireEye – A Case Study in How the Financial Times Weaponizes Its Middle East Reporting
Why is the Financial Times running security threat claims from FireEye, an information technology company, that FireEye can’t substantiate?
Read more...Donald Trump’s Truly Absurd, Word Salad, Gibberish Health Care Policy
Trump’s health care plan, to the extent it can even be called a plan, makes no sense.
Read more...Offshore Ireland Implicated in Bank Collapse, Once Again
More on how Ireland’s banks walked on the wild side, to the detriment of its citizens.
Read more...James Galbraith Describes Major Forecast Failure in Model Used by Romers to Attack Friedman on Sanders Plan
James Galbraith examines the used forecast by Christine Romer and David Romer to attack Gerald Friedman’s favorable review of Sanders’ plan. He’d already shellacked the methodology in a 2014 book.
Read more...Negative Rates, Negative Reactions
A new survey suggests that negative rates will be counterproductive. Consumers will not spend more, as central banks wish, but will hoard.
Read more...Black Lives Matter Activist Confronts Clinton About Racially Charged “Superpredator” Statement Because the Corporate Media Won’t
When confronted by Black Lives Matter, Sanders gave them the mike. By contrast, Clinton started temporizing and had them removed.
Read more...Introducing Kuznets Waves: How Income Inequality Waxes and Wanes Over the Very Long Run
Why income inequality is likely to remain high.
Read more...A Clinton Presidency Has Been/Would Be a Disaster for Black and Brown Communities. Here’s Why.
Hillary Clinton supported policies that devastated black communities, as well as using racist code words to attract Southern whites.
Read more...Robert Reich: Are We Witnessing the Death of America’s Political Establishment?
The elites in America are so cloistered that Robert Reich has to tell them why the natives are restless.
Read more...San Francisco: “Baghdad by the Bay” for People of Color
Racism is alive and well in the San Francisco police force.
Read more...Bill Black: Krugman Triples Down on His Smear of Friedman and Bernie
Krugman has really lost it.
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