Bill Black: Who Said This? A Bank Fraud Quiz
Testing your knowledge of which top Federal officials have been tough and lax on bank fraud.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/7/2018
Todays Water Cooler: NAFTA, Harris, O’Rourke, Sanders, SuperPACs, Pelosi and PayGo, employment, consumer sentiment, wholesale trade, Tesla, Apple, Lyft IPO, Kentucky water, working class voices, ALEC, data-mining twitter
Read more...The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Change and the Economy
The new IPCC Report is overly optimistic about global productivity growth and fossil fuel energy use. More dramatic, immediate action on climate change is needed
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Without Obamacare Penalty, Think It’ll Be Nice To Drop Your Health Insurance? Better Think Twice
The ACA hasn’t made heath insurance more affordable for quite a few people.
Read more...Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
Wishful thinking and tinkering like “green growth” won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
Read more...Links 12/6/18
George Herbert Walker Bush and the Myth of the ‘Good’ Gulf War
Correcting revisionist history about Bush the Senior and the first Gulf War.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/5/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Aluminum and steel tariffs, Beto and Obama, the crowded Democrat field, lame duck power grabs, Bush hagiography, Jeffrey Epstein, mortgages, cobalt, Google, social media, coal, hospitals, single payer, charter school strike, gut bacteria in your brain
Read more...G20: You Can Smell Tear Gas in the Streets as the Oil Industry Squabbles
What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world.
Read more...U.S. Treasury Sanctions Bitcoin Wallets For First Time
The long arm of US law reaches into bitcoin wallets.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/4/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trash and trade, Neera Tanden, Beto 2020, ME-02, NC, WI, motor vehicle sales, LNG, rentals, Google, MasterCard universal identity, clean coal, marijuana legisation, Women’s March, STD, carbohydrates and fat
Read more...The Impact of Inheritance Taxes on the Labor Supply of Heirs
Inheritance tax cuts cost non-currency-issuing governments more than just the lost inheritance tax revenues.
Read more...Michael Olenick: A Quick Look at the Gilets Jaunes Protests. Update: They Won!
An overview of the gilets jaunes movement.
Read more...How Did Public Land Drilling Rights Become Cheaper Than a Cup of Coffee?
A great public land giveaway is in process….and where has the press been?
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