Category Archives: Banana republic

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 But a new piece on Covid’s impact on low income workers has good analysis and out of date proposals.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?

Blinken’s Booby Traps – How The US Propaganda Paper Released In Madrid Proposes to Go to War With Russia While Claiming to Do The Opposite

The US seems to think it is too clever by half in dealing with Russia. But some parties close to the action, like Europeans, aren’t so keen.

Right to Repair: Massachusetts Auto Measure Stalls

Automakers have mounted a legal challenge to Massachusetts auto telematics right to repair statute. Will the Biden administration and the FTC seek to apply data rules and tools to vehicle telematics data?

The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation

At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.

Senators Have Re-Introduced the Highly Unpopular EARN IT Bill That Would Scan All Online Messages

The EARN IT Act would authorize a massive new private surveillance system, rolling back important privacy and security features

Ending Drug Price Gouging: A Regulatory Framework for Pricing of Medicine Innovation

regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development.

The UK’s Post-Brexit Review of ‘Retained EU Law’ Risks Undermining Democracy

Brexit requires the Government to disentangle domestic law from EU law. The preferred plan is to hand more power to unaccountable ministers

CalPERS Continues to Grossly Misrepresent Facts and Law to Avoid Disclosing Full Transcript of Improper Board Meeting After CIO Ben Meng Quit; Will Judge Markman Buy It?

True to form, CalPERS general counsel Matt Jacobs is playing fast and loose with the law and facts. Will Judge Markman let him get away with it?

Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Now It Will Die There

A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet

Navigating Russia/Ukraine Warmongering Disinformation

Trying to pull some signal out of the considerable propaganda, um, noise, on Russia and Ukraine.

‘No More Hiding’: Sanders Says Make GOP Vote on Popular Policies

Sanders: “The American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives.”