Yanis Varoufakis: One Extreme Europe? On the Parliamentary Election Results
Conventional wisdom that extreme parties on the right and left won in the European Parliamentary elections. In fact, only one extreme won.
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R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings
Trying to pierce the murk around the new Ukrainian venture of Vice President Biden’s son R. Hunter Biden
Read more...How Obamacare Policy Holders and Big Pharma Lose Out from Insurers Gaming Plan Designs
At one level, it’s vastly amusing to watch Big Pharma, through its powerful lobbying group PhRMA, complaining that its ox is being gored by insurers through how they’ve designed Obamacare plans. On another, though, the analysis prepared for PhRMA confirms what this site has long argued, that the Obamacare plans represent a deliberate effort to extract more rents from the public at large on behalf of the medical-industrial complex.
Read more...Ilargi: European Democracy Is Roadkill
How supranational and pan-European institutions, along with US meddling, have vitiated democracy in Europe.
Read more...A Whistleblower’s Tainted Defeat: CA Appellate Reversal Paves Way for Continued Bank Retaliation
How an appellate court ran roughshod over bedrock principles of judicial review to reverse a decisive victory by a Countrywide whistleblower.
Read more...Growing Public Awareness and Concern About the “Attitudinal Model” of Supreme Court Votes
Finally, the media and analysts are getting a tad more candid about what Supreme Court decisions are really about.
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (III)
We remind the New Zealand government that a shell company network linked to $10-100Bn of alleged moneylaundering is still active in New Zealand.
Read more...How the Democrats Are Using Piketty’s Book on Inequality
How Democrats are using Thomas Piketty’s new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, to bolster the party’s flagging fortunes.
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (II) (and Ukraine)
The nuts-and bolts view of these looting mechanisms shows how corruption actually works.
Read more...Andrew Ross Sorkin, Timothy Geithner, and the Three Card Monte Model of Propaganda
Truth be told, I had really wanted to ignore Andrew Ross Sorkin’s artfully packaged Timothy Geithner puff piece in the Sunday New York Times magazine. But it makes for a useful study in a not-well-recognized propaganda technique, three card monte.
Read more...Has America’s Use of Finance as a Foreign Policy Tool Backfired?
How America’ s abject fealty to the financial services industry, and its promotion of open capital markets in emerging economies, privatization and its tolerance of tax havens, have destroyed US credibility in Eastern Europe.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Stockholm Syndrome in the Baltics – Latvia’s Neoliberal War against Labor and Industry
How Latvia, a test case for neoliberal colonialism, has proven to be a test case of how finance-serving policies crush labor and enterprise.
Read more...SEC Official Describes Widespread Lawbreaking and Material Weakness in Controls in Private Equity Industry
At a private equity conference this week, Drew Bowden, a senior SEC official, told private equity fund managers and their investors in considerable detail about how the agency had found widespread stealing and other serious infractions in its audits of private equity firms.
Read more...Enron 2.0: Goldman-Linked Investors Set to Manipulate East Coast Electricity Prices
Remarkably, some Goldman alumni look about to re-enact Enron-style energy market price manipulation all along the East Coast. And no one appears to be alert enough to stop them.
Read more...Bill Moyers: Obama’s Latest Assault on Democracy – Undermining Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is on its way to being executed by the likes of Comcast and Verizon. That will mean the death of the Internet as we know it.
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