Perry Mehrling’s post on the Fed’s progress in dealing with future market crises is damning, despite its “give everyone credit for what they have done” recap.
Read more...How the Founding Fathers and successful advancing economies steered clear of manufacturer-destroying “free trade”.
Read more...As the QE prop is removed, it will become more difficult to ignore the fact that “employment” subsidies were often simply “employer” subsidies.
Read more...Demonstrating why Menzie Chinn stated, “The ALEC economic outlook ranking is, in my assessment, a manifestation of faith based economics.”
Read more...How the US has developed military muscle at the expense of brainpower.
Read more...A report from an insider on organization dedicated to scabbing known as Teach for America.
Read more...There’s so much chicanery afoot in private equity that I sometimes don’t write about important aspects on a timely basis. One of the big ones that most investors manage to kid themselves about is how the general partners’ fee structures really work. The widely-cherished fantasy is that the prototypical 2% annual management fee (the “2” […]
Read more...Lambert here: As ever, the scandal is what’s legal. Ka-ching. By Steve Horn, a Madison, WI-based Research Fellow for DeSmogBlog and a freelance investigative journalist. He previously was a reporter and researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy. Originally published at DeSmogBlog. On August 4, the U.S. Appeals Court for the 10th Circuit shot […]
Read more...Spain has been hit by 19 trade suits over renewable energy subsidies alone. More would come if the TTIP become law.
Read more...Relocalization has the potential to increase political accountability and revitalize communities. But how do you make it happen?
Read more...Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report discuss how BlackLivesMatter seems to be abandoning its campaign against police brutality to become a tool of the black misleadership class.
Read more...When a Liberal government in Australia won’t back Obama’s “deal is near” party line on the TPP, you know it’s on the verge of being officially dead.
Read more...How shocking images of the Vietnam war helped stoke the antiwar movement of the 1960s, and how we’ve since become inured to them and the horrors of war generally.
Read more...Greece and its creditors have reached agreement on key terms for a so-called “third bailout”
Read more...A successful initiative in the UK to obtain more registration and publication of clinical trial data has had its US launch utterly ignored , not simply the mainstream media but also the logical suspects in the medical trade press and scholarly journals..
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