Hoisted From E-mail: “Shock Doctrine Against CalPERS”
Why CalPERS is becoming the target of sustained media attacks.
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Trickle Down Election Economics: How Big Money Can Affect Small Races
Billionaires are targeting key state races.
Read more...Hedge Funds Get More Pushback on Terms as Enthusiasm for Strategy Wanes
Investors are trimming hedge funds’ sails….finally.
Read more...Even Endowments Like Harvard, Former Top Investors in Hedge and Private Equity Funds, No Longer Beat Boring Stocks and Bonds
Even supposedly oh-so-savvy endowments can’t eke superior performance out of private equity and hedge funds any more.
Read more...How Finance Costs Too Much and Fails to Deliver
The costs of looting by the financial services industry are even more staggering than you probably imagined.
Read more...Warren, Sanders, Brown, Merkley, Reed, 4 Other Senators, Ask the SEC to Get Out of Bed on Private Equity
As strange as it may seem, eight Senators ganging up on the SEC over yet another private equity lapse is a sign of a change in the zeitgeist.
Read more...Puerto Rico ‘Rescue’ Bill to Reinforce Colonial Relationship with US
Not surprisingly. Puerto Rico is about to get a big dose of austerity…..which Latvia-style, will push more people with skills to leave.
Read more...Enforcement of Puerto Rico’s Colonial Debt Pushes Out Young Workers
Yves here. This post corrects some of the misleading accounts of the history of the Puerto Rico’s debt crisis and describes how the neoliberal remedy is producing an Ireland-style exodus of the young. By José A. Laguarta Ramírez. Originally published at Triple Crisis At least 23 of the 49 people killed in the mass shooting […]
Read more...Do You Vote Democrat As A Default Position? BIG Mistake!
A list of Congressional Democrats on the Wall Street meal ticket.
Read more...Kentucky Pension Fund: “Like a 3rd World Country with 2 Different Governments Claiming Power”
Kentucky is now practicing pension fund governance at the barrel of a gun.
Read more...HR 5424, “Investment Advisers Modernization Act,” a “Get Out of Madoff and Other Frauds for Free” Bill, Passes Financial Services Committee
HR 5424, intended to make life even easier for potential securities law abusers, got considerable support from Democrats on the Financial Services Committee.
Read more...Hedge Fund Shakeout Continues
The hedge fund industry has been bloodied but is far from bowed.
Read more...Financial Times Exposes McKinsey’s Secret, Conflict-Ridden In-House Hedge Fund
McKinsey’s heretofore secret in-house investment unit has troubling conflicts of interest.
Read more...Investment Case Study: Some Oxford Dons Take Skeptical Look at Yale and Canadian Investment Fads, Um, Models
Believe it or not, a case study on major approaches to investing that is both informative and fun to read.
Read more...Welcome to the Great Australian Scab Grab
Australia is in the grip of the greatest economic scab grab of my lifetime
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