Why Are Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos So Interested in Space?
There are good reasons to be leery of billionaires colonizing a public sector activity like space exploration.
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The Numbers Are In, and Trump’s Tax Cuts Are a Bust
Why Trump’s tax “reforms” didn’t deliver on growth, just on rentierism.
Read more...CalPERS Sleaze Watch: Showcases Criminal Ex-General “Betray-Us” as Keynote Speaker at Offsite
CalPERS demonstrates its lack of interest in ethics and propriety.
Read more...CalPERS’ Hedge Fund With 34% Stake in National Enquirer Parent Alleged To Be “Parking” Rather Than Selling (Updated)
Some funny-looking business with CalPERS desire to be rid of National Enquirer’s parent, American Media.
Read more...Will Democratic Party Superdelegates Prevent a Progressive Nominee in 2020?
This Real News Network interview discusses the threat of superdelegates intervening in the 2020 Democratic party convention.
Read more...Deutsche Bank Highlights a Society at Risk
Why the erosion of personal standards has become a collective risk.
Read more...Hospitals Block ‘Surprise Billing’ Measure In California
Hospitals flex their muscles and the public loses.
Read more...Transfer (Mis)pricing, the Jewel in Every Multinational Enterprise’s Crown
Transfer pricing: How developing countries lose $3 billion every day through an accounting trick that allows corporations to avoid paying tax.
Read more...Trump’s Version of the Iran Accord: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
A clinical look at the Administration’s disingenuous Iran spin.
Read more...Ilargi: Memo to the US – The Winds Are Shifting
Why the US looks like it has a glass jaw.
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses the IMF and World Bank: Partners In Backwardness
Michael Hudson explains how the IMF and World Bank support US hegemony.
Read more...Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe
Lack of geographic mobiliity is a major culprit in the rise of nationalism.
Read more...Congress Sniffing Around Botched McKinsey Studies Depicted as Impairing Intelligence Agencies
McKinsey is in hot water again.
Read more...Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.
Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?
Read more...How a Central Asian Business Empire Dines Out on British Secrecy
Using the UK’s lax corporate transparency and accountability regime, international businesses can, in effect, mask interests and ownership at home.
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