Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders introduce legislation: they call it Loan Shark Prevention, which would allow post offices to act as banks and cap interest rates at 15%, but credit card companies claim it would hurt the poor.
Read more...New CIEL study documents how plastic proliferation threatens the climate on a global scale.
Read more...Five states have enacted draconian laws after protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline generated national attention and inspired a wave of civil disobedience.
Read more...This column shows that white, less-educated Americans born in the 1960s are worse off than the generation born 20 years previously, based on wage changes, increased medical costs, and shorter life expectancy. This disparity could be worth as much as $132,000.
Read more...Is Boeing itself on a crash course?
Read more...A favorite saying of famed short seller David Einhorn is, “No matter how bad it looks, it’s worse.”. This appears particularly true of Boeing these days.
Read more...SEC proposes relaxing internal control attestation requirements for companies with annual revenues of less than $100 million.
Read more...Keep your eye on what Assange’s real offenses are in the minds of the officialdom.
Read more...A new bill by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to limit credit abuses and make banking more accessible.
Read more...The infamous HAMP program, which the Administration revised so many times on the fly as to give incompetent and mendacious mortgage servicers air cover for failing to modify mortgages, at least had a stealth purpose. As Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said to the SIGTARP’s Neil Barofsky, it was to foam the runway for banks by […]
Read more...The longer you look at Boeing, the uglier it gets.
Read more...The US announced plans to park warships on Iran’s doorstep and tries to depict Iran as the provocateur. What gives?
Read more...The US now seeks to shut down Iranian exports to zero. Will Iran respond by closing the Strait of Hormuz?
Read more...The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy
Read more...Why beneficiaries and California taxpayers should welcome Lisa Middleton replacing Bill Slaton on the CalPERS board.
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