The Global Financial Crime Wave Is No Accident
Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange recognized.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 11/23/2018
Water Cooler: Open thread
Read more...Taking an Inventory of Senator Bernie Sanders’ Town Halls in 2017 and 2018
How many Town Halls has Sanders done? What were they about? Are there implications for 2020?
Read more...Wolf Richter: 438 Stocks on the NYSE Have Already Plunged 40%-94% from 52-Week Highs
Bloodletting beneath the surface. Big name stocks, too. Here they are.
Read more...Links Thanksgiving Day 11/22/18
Uncertainty and Legal Institutions: The Impact of the Brexit Vote on EU Law Application in the UK
How Brexit is already affecting UK jurisprudence.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/21/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Read more...Why Thanksgiving Is My Favorite Holiday
Thanksgiving is America’s most convivial holiday
Read more...Debunking One “Global Cooling” Argument
A quick kneecapping of some deliberate misconstruction on the global warming front.
Read more...‘A Staggeringly Bad Idea’: Pelosi Pushes Tax Rule That Would ‘Kneecap the Progressive Agenda’
Nancy Pelosi proposes a tax rule that would shackle Democrats by requiring a supermajority to raise taxes on the bottom 80% of the population, thus effectively stymieing their ability to enact any major new spending programs.
Read more...Links 11/20/18
Michael Hudson: “Moral Hazard” vs Mutual Aid – How the Bronze Age Saved Itself from Debt Serfdom
Bronze Age societies forgave agricultural debt to keep cultivators working on their land, able to pay taxes and work in the military and on public projects. Lenders were seen as greedy and exploitative.
Read more...The Fracking Industry’s Wastewater Injection Well Problem
The fracking industry has a wastewater disposal problem and finds itself in a pick your poison situation, with no good alternatives. Americans will continue to bear the environmental costs of the nationwide fracking experiment.
Read more...New York Media Touts Private Equity Obamist Deval Patrick as Presidential Candidate
Why is the media covering up that Deval Patrick became wealthy via asset-stripping at Bain Capital?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/19/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs, Biden, Beto, election shenanigans, AOC, DSA, callout culture, housing market, e-commerce, Elon Musk, Carlos Ghosn, Tim Cook, Medicare for All, constitutional law, SEIU, brainwaves
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