Second Circuit last week narrowed the reach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but will not redirect the DoJ to focus on enforcement of more significant violations that occur closer to home.
Read more...A conversation with Chris Hedges about his apocalyptic new book America: The Farewell Tour (Simon & Schuster, August 2018).
Read more...Inept political maneuvering by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned what was a longstanding controversy in Canada over Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project into a complete and utter quagmire.
Read more...Why the Fed is, rather late in the game, concerned about monopsony power.
Read more...Talks kick off in New York on Tuesday to negotiate a UN treaty on the high seas by 2020; this would extend the existing law of the sea framework beyond each nation’s territorial waters.
Read more...To diversify from the euro-debt-crisis, the biggest Spanish banks pushed deeply into Emerging Markets. Now, they’re in a new crisis.
Read more...RBI annual report reaffirms demonetization had little impact on ferreting out black money; BJP majority blocks release of scathing parliamentary standing committee on finance report on the policy’s failure.
Read more...Vanautu is in the vanguard of commonwealth states moving to ban single-use plastic items, which are choking marine life, slowly poisoning fish (and those who eat them), and negatively affecting tourism.
Read more...Life along Woonsquatucket, and what “a screw loose” really means.
Read more...Trump’s NAFTA deal means a few additional crumbs for labor at a time when most U.S. manufacturing capacity has already been offshored or destroyed by militarization.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA autos and dairy, China trade, Florida’s Gillum, Google ranking, Mark Penn, Glenn Greenwald, Papal legitimacy crisis, consumer sentiment, insider journalism, little languages
Read more...Co-ops can and do create more cooperation, which in turn can reform capitalism.
Read more...ocial media players like Facebook and Twitter increasingly informational town squares yet still carry themselves as private companies.
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