The National Association of Business Political Action Committees (NABPAC), which lobbies on behalf of PACs, believes the problem with America’s system of campaign finance is there’s not enough money in politics.
Read more...Blackstone is a major operator in the Spanish property market. This post discusses the Spanish government’s plans to enact modest protections for tenants by reforming rent laws. Will the government respond to tenant needs, or give way to the private equity firm’s implicit threat to reduce its Spanish property investments? Alas, it looks likely that the government will fail to deliver on its reform pledge.
Read more...Earth to economists: you are a big part of the climate change problem.
Read more...Musings about what Brexit will mean to the British people.
Read more...An update on the meth epidemic.
Read more...Yet another reason to be leery of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Read more...Yet more official climate change denialism…
Read more...The Post Office, its Universal Service Obligation, privatization efforts, how (and possibly why) those efforts are stalled.
Read more...“Fake left” plays directly into the hands of the capitalist elites that they supposedly oppose.
Read more...The costs of Mark Zuckerberg’s hubris keep rising.
Read more...Market dysfunction and class warfare in crowdsourced health care funding
Read more...The Amazon strikes in Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Read more...Quelle surprise: pay to play in Security Council votes.
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