The REALLY ANNOYING Don’t-Wanna-Subsidize-Wealthy-Kids’-College-Tuition Canard
Yves here. Readers know I have a weakness for righteous rants…
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On the Lack of Courage in Regulators
Robert Jenkins, a former banker, hedge fund manager, and regulator, points out that regulatory reform has fallen short on multiple fronts, and perhaps the most important is courage.
Read more...John Helmer: The Barbarians at the Gate of Civilization, but Which Empire is Falling?
Empire-booster-in-chief Niall Ferguson gets yet another well-deserved shellacking, this time on how he falsifies the record in drawing lessons from Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Read more...Join Occupy the SEC in Urging the Congress to Oppose H.R. 4002 (“Criminal Code Improvement Act of 2015”)!
Support Occupy the SEC in opposing a bill that would give white collar criminals a new, improved “get out of jail free” card.
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The TPP is a Multi-Dimensional Simultaneous Equation
How Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s remarks to the DIet about the TPP reveal a lot about the aims of this deal and its vulnerabilities.
Read more...The GXG Markets Fallout (II): Editwars and FOIA fights
GXG Markets is gone but the dirty dealings continue
Read more...The Disaster of Greek Austerity
Data and on the ground reports on the high cost of Greek austerity.
Read more...10 Economic Facts that Power the Sanders Insurgency
Why are so many drawn to the Sanders message? It’s because so many of us want to stop our entire society from crumbling beneath the destructive power of runaway inequality.
Read more...How Ireland Became an Offshore Financial Center
Offshore financial centres are a political and economic phenomenon that goes far beyond secrecy, and Ireland makes a remarkable case study.
Read more...Support Elizabeth Warren, and Other Senators in IRS Crack Down on Private Equity Tax Abuse
Please provide your comment on regulatory guidance, um, crackdown, proposed by the IRS on a private equity tax abuse, management fee waivers.
Read more...Matthew Cunningham-Cook: TPP – A Recipe for Financial Market Contagion
How the TPP would make financial firms that are “TIBACO” – that is, too interconnected, big, and complex to oversee – even more dangerous.
Read more...John Helmer: Australian and Dutch Officials Lose Control on MH17
Now government officials and police are disagreeing with each other…
Read more...John Helmer: Chrystia Freeland Demoted In New Canadian Cabinet – She And The Ukraine Lobby Hit By Siklebaum Disease
Chrystia Freeland and the nexus of Ukraine-related politics in Canada.
Read more...Full Text of TPP, Including Annexes, and Boy is it Nasty
Yes, sports fans, the TPP is as bad as you feared it might be….
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