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Public-Private Partnerships Fad Fails

After the failure and abuses of privatization became apparent, public-private partnerships have since been promoted to mobilize private finance for the public purpose. PPPs have socialized costs and losses while ensuring private financial gains.

Bill Black: Ocasio-Cortez & Sanders Introduce Bill to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gregory Travis and Marshall Auerback: Anatomy of a Disaster – Why Boeing Should Never Make Another Airplane, Again

Is Boeing itself on a crash course?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Public-Private Partnerships Fad Fails

Bill Black: Ocasio-Cortez & Sanders Introduce Bill to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%

Plastic and Climate Change: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet

After Standing Rock, Protesting Pipelines Can Get You a Decade in Prison and $100K in Fines

The Lost Ones: The Opportunities and Outcomes of White, Non-College-Educated Americans Born In The 1960s

Gregory Travis and Marshall Auerback: Anatomy of a Disaster – Why Boeing Should Never Make Another Airplane, Again

How Deep Is Boeing’s Hole?

SEC to Relax Audit Requirements for Small Companies, Thus Facilitating Future Accounting Fraud

Why Everyone in the U.S. Who Counts Wants Julian Assange Dead

Why You Should Back the Sanders/AOC Plan to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%, Re-Launch the Postal Savings Bank

Boeing’s Crapified Safety Culture: Airline Pressured, Overruled FAA Designees, Told FAA Late of Problems, Gave Inconsistent Stories to 737 Max Customers

Will the U.S. Start a War Against Iran?

Boys Go to Baghdad. Men Go to Tehran.

Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance

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