Category Archives: Banana republic

SEC Investigating Possible Block Trading Abuses at Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Other Big Players

Mirabile dictu! More seriousness from the SEC!

This Doctor Thought She Could Navigate US Health Care. Then Her Autistic Son Needed Help.

Another example of how the US health care system fails patients that could be treated.

Peasants Marginalized by Big Farms

Why big farms are often not better.

Arbitration Antics: Warren, Porter, Press Regulator to Explain Yet Another Way Wells Fargo Found to Game the System

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep Katie Porter press regulator for answers as to how Wells Fargo apparently gamed the arbitration system.

How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment”

A new global economic system has to be based on a key principle of Bretton Woods: multilateralism

What Are Taxpayers Spending for Those ‘Free’ Covid Tests? The Government Won’t Say.

The officialdom is not giving straight answers to simple questions about how much it spent procuring those “free” Covid tests.

Resource Limits to American Capitalism & The Predator State Today

James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of the US from industrialism to his so-called predator state: finance-led, military-centered corporatism

Ocean Summit Launches Today in France

The Ocean Summit launches today in France, a long overdue effort to grapple with marine regulatory issues, including climate change and plastics pollution.

The 50 Biggest US Donors Gave or Pledged Nearly $28 Billion in 2021 – Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Account for $15 Billion of That Total

No, you are not paranoid if you worry about the outsized influence of the Gates Foundation.

Resist Inflation Phobia Coup

Efforts to cure inflation, at least for poorer countries, will prove to be more damaging than the disease.

Quelle Surprise! Covid Burden Falling Hardest on Low Income Workers…But Don’t Expect Any Help

Don’t get us wrong. We really like EPI. But a new piece on Covid’s impact on low income workers has good analysis and out of date proposals.

IMF Surcharges: A Lose-Lose Policy for Global Recovery

The IMF seems unable to drop its punitive, self and “client” destructive habits.

‘Keep Pushing’: Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading

Will Congress move to ban its members from trading shares of stock while they’re in office?

Michael Hudson: America’s Real Adversaries Are Its European and Other Allies

America has gone off the deep end re Ukraine. It’s pressuring allies to engage in economic self-harm, which is not a relationship-builder

News Flash: CalPERS Invents Time Machine! Not News: CalPERS Again Lies in Suit Over Illegal Secret Board Meeting and Smears Former Board Member Margaret Brown as Diversion

CalPERS digs its hole even deeper in its effort to keep parts of a board transcript secret. What dirt does it contain?