Banks and Landlords Have To Pick Up the Costs of the Pandemic To Come to Forestall a Depression
Why banks and landlords (and the health care industry) need to pay their share of coronavirus costs.
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Let’s Crush the Woke Plutonomy! An Interview + Review of The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
How the ordering of the world to suit the 1% – also known as plutonomy – has generated long-overdue “populist” pushback.
Read more...Porkfest! Tallying How Much the Pentagon Really Costs
Yes, sports fans, Pentagon spending is even worse than you imagined.
Read more...The Candidate’s Dilemma: “I Call on My Opponents To Stop Calling on Me To Drop Out.”
Why lazy thinking on Dem candidate odds is wrong.
Read more...Why Is Trump Trying to Kill a Small Agency with a Big Impact on Public Safety?
Quelle surprise! Trump is out to terminate an independent agency that has stepped into the EPA’s void.
Read more...CalPERS’ Dishonest Response to Representative Jim Banks Regarding Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng and CalPERS’ Chinese Investments
Rep.Jim Banks pressed CalPERS on dodgy Chnese investments. CalPERS gave Banks a free shot via flagrant lies, but will Banks catch on?
Read more...Is Bloomberg Buying the DNC? If So, What Does He Plan to Do With It?
A closer look at Bloomberg’s attempted takeover of the DNC.
Read more...New Mexico Attorney General Sues Google Over Kiddie Privacy
New Mexico AG Hector Balderas sues Google for violating children’s privacy under federal and state statutes. Don’t be evil indeed!
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: Pseudo-Events as a New Normal
Are pseudo-events the bread and circuses of the Information Age?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Subprime Credit Card Delinquencies Spike to Record High, Past Financial-Crisis Peak, as Other Consumers Relish the Good Times. Why?
The concern is not for banks or investors in subprime-credit-card backed securities. But what does this bifurcation tell us about consumers?
Read more...How To Roast the Planet with Good Intentions: The Climate Equity Act
A new bill illustrates how not to tackle climate change.
Read more...Private Equity’s War to Preserve Surprise Billing
Sadly, private equity has beaten back legislation to curb surprise biling.
Read more...Why No Retired Generals Oppose America’s Forever Wars
How generals promote top-level groupthink.
Read more...To Tackle Inequality, We Need To Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From
How to combat cultural beliefs that justify extreme inequality.
Read more...CalPERS’ Election Rigging: Pushing for Most Costly, Insecure Online and Phone Voting Despite Abject Failure, Why? To Help SEIU Influence Election
CalPERS remains unwilling to run clean and secure elections. One has to wonder why.
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