Tom Ferguson: Who is Supporting Trump?
Our favorite curmudgeon, political scientist Tom Ferguson, appeared on Real News Network to tease some signal out of the considerable noise on Donald Trump.
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Harvard Professor Josh Lerner Gave Weak and Internally Contradictory Plug for Private Equity at CalPERS Workshop
Harvard’s Professor Josh Lerner gave CalPERS what was presumably a pep talk for investing in private equity that was so contradictory as to amount to a case against it.
Read more...CalPERS Debunks Private Equity: Executive Summary
Announcing a series that shows how CalPERS’ efforts to defend its private equity program through a workshop for its board backfired.
Read more...CalPERS Hired a Fiduciary Counsel Accused of Serious Misconduct Over More Than a Decade, Including Kickbacks, Failure to Disclose Conflicts of Interest
CalPERS’ board has hired a fiduciary counsel, Robert Klausner, who has been associated with scandals for over a decade, the latest in Jacksonville, Florida.
Read more...Ilargi: The Great Fall Of China Started At Least 4 Years Ago
Why China’s slowdown and exported deflation started far earlier than most pundits and analysts would have you believe.
Read more...How Pursuing “Competitiveness” Crushes Labor and Lowers Growth
Why pursuing national “competitiveness,” as in squeezing labor pay and rights, does not produce the promised benefit of more growth.
Read more...Wait: Maybe Europeans are as Rich as Americans
Many Europeans argue that when you adjust nominally higher American incomes for how much we spend from our own pockets on healthcare plus the longer hours we work, we aren’t better off.
Read more...Martin Wolf on the Low Labor Participation as the Result of the Crapification of Jobs
Why are more and more prime age people refusing to take jobs on offer?
Read more...China’s Raging Bond Bubble Exposed
Yet another China risk warning.
Read more...Rajiv Sethi: Race and Police Bias – Threats Perceived When There Are None
Sethi takes issue with a New York Times article that took the astonishing view that combatting bias would have little impact on the rate of police killings of blacks.
Read more...Failure of Globalization and the Fourth Estate
“Free Trade,” the banner of Globalization, has not only wrecked the world’s economy, it has left Western Democracy in shambles.
Read more...Joe Firestone: Fiscal Myths of Campaign 2016
Most of the world, and most notably the United States, is in the grip of fiscal myths fostered by the ideology of neoliberalism. It’s time to debunk them.
Read more...5 of the Biggest Acts of Corporate Hypocrisy in America
Socialism for the rich is inherently hypocritical….but which forms of corporate truth-distortion are the most brazen?
Read more...How Monsanto Solicited Academics to Bolster Their Pro-GMO Propaganda — Using Taxpayer Dollars
Contrary to what most consumers believe, the pro-GMO research that was presented as independent was paid for by Monsanto.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: The Fog of Intelligence, or How to Be Eternally ‘Caught Off Guard’ in the Greater Middle East
An in-depth look at the US’s big-ticket intelligence apparatus that can’t shoot straight in the Middle East. A bug or a feature?
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