An update on the latest twists and turns in the astonishingly long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems case.
Read more...An assessment of the wildfire smoke emergency in the US, and a warning that more is inevitable.
Read more...Cataloguing some of the less-well recognized ways that Alan Greenspan did tremendous harm to the financial system and citizens at large.
Read more...On of Trump affordability ideas, of limits on big investor ownership of single family homes, is moving forward even though it won’t do much.
Read more...Shadow banks, rebranded as anodyne “non-bank financial institutions” are larger than ever and pose a threat in a new financial crisis
Read more...How the financialization of housing destroys the societal fabric and why we need to make housing public infrastructure—like schools or libraries.
Read more...In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financiers.
Read more...The SEC, in its munificence, is planning to allow more retail investors to be fleeced by private equity.
Read more...The plaintiffs seeking to claw back funds from misbehaving finance titans like KKR and Blackstone continue their winning streak.
Read more...Mapping the contagion fever chart of how a Trump financial meltdown might unfold.
Read more...The money to support well-paid American jobs exists—it’s just being hoarded by the rich.
Read more...The Wall Street Journal worried about the giddy mood at the annual structured industry conference. But is where to look for the next crisis?
Read more...In a step forward for long-suffering Kentucky Retirement Systems (now Kentucky Public Pension Authority) beneficiaries, attorneys for so-called Tier 3 Plaintiffs beat back a scheme by Attorney General Russell Coleman to settle claims against private equity kingpins KKR and Blackstone on the cheap…oh, and completely drop claims against their top partners, here the famed Henry […]
Read more...Trump wants to revive his 2017 plan to curb a private equity tax abuse, the so-called carried interest loophole. Is he likely to succeed now?
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