Yet another stunning indictment of public pension fund management. If the biggest funds with the best staffs can’t beat a simple Vanguard portfolio, why aren’t more heads rolling?
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Read more...Why preventive medicine is not all it is cracked up to be.
Read more...Why Trump’s claim that the Postal Service is subsidizing Amazon is all wet.
Read more...The great unwashed public has good reason to doubt what economists say about trade.
Read more...Time to look harder at the reasons for rising opioid deaths.
Read more...Not surprisingly, Millennials are not in very good financial shape…..
Read more...How fiat money denialism, also know as austerity and deficit scaremongering, is undermining the public’s ability to tackle pressing challenges like climate change.
Read more...Yes, it is now official: you really are engaged in exploitation when you use Uber or Lyft.
Read more...Why has wage growth been lousy in a supposed recovery? Thank your politicians for fostering the growth of the precariat.
Read more...Astonishingly, climate change accords like Kyoto and Paris ignore the impact of trade. That omission means our collective goose is cooked.
Read more...How the wealthy use deficit scaremongering to keep wages down and stave off calls for more investment and social spending.
Read more...A careful parsing of shale industry performance data indicates that the industry’s claims of productivity gains are overstated.
Read more...How CalPERS’ fiduciary counsel encouraged its board to pressure its actuary to produce more politically-convenient results.
Read more...A useful short list on how commercial and competitive pressures have undermined good scientific practice.
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