Plastic and Climate Change: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
New CIEL study documents how plastic proliferation threatens the climate on a global scale.
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After Standing Rock, Protesting Pipelines Can Get You a Decade in Prison and $100K in Fines
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...The Lost Ones: The Opportunities and Outcomes of White, Non-College-Educated Americans Born In The 1960s
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...Gregory Travis and Marshall Auerback: Anatomy of a Disaster – Why Boeing Should Never Make Another Airplane, Again
Is Boeing itself on a crash course?
Read more...How Deep Is Boeing’s Hole?
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 to Relax Audit Requirements for Small Companies, Thus Facilitating Future Accounting Fraud
SEC proposes relaxing internal control attestation requirements for companies with annual revenues of less than $100 million.
Read more...Why Everyone in the U.S. Who Counts Wants Julian Assange Dead
Keep your eye on what Assange’s real offenses are in the minds of the officialdom.
Read more...Why You Should Back the Sanders/AOC Plan to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%, Re-Launch the Postal Savings Bank
A new bill by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to limit credit abuses and make banking more accessible.
Read more...Student Loan Forgiveness Program Offers False Hope, Rejects 99% of Applications
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...Boeing’s Crapified Safety Culture: Airline Pressured, Overruled FAA Designees, Told FAA Late of Problems, Gave Inconsistent Stories to 737 Max Customers
The longer you look at Boeing, the uglier it gets.
Read more...Will the U.S. Start a War Against Iran?
The US announced plans to park warships on Iran’s doorstep and tries to depict Iran as the provocateur. What gives?
Read more...Boys Go to Baghdad. Men Go to Tehran.
The US now seeks to shut down Iranian exports to zero. Will Iran respond by closing the Strait of Hormuz?
Read more...Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance
The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy
Read more...Good Riddance to CalPERS’ Bill Slaton; Board Changes May (Finally) Lead to Staff Serving Beneficiaries, Not Its Own Interests
Why beneficiaries and California taxpayers should welcome Lisa Middleton replacing Bill Slaton on the CalPERS board.
Read more...Bill Black: Thousands Die, Millions Injured on the Job, and No Businesses Prosecuted
Bill Black describes how OSHA’s few underfunded inspectors can’t do their jobs, and prosecutors don’t prosecute businesses for non-compliance.
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