Today’s Iran war news: The US-Iran impasse is undeniable to everyone ex Team Trump as Israel balks and the oil cliff comes ever closer.
Read more...The planned central hub for American digital—and dollar— supremacy goes up in flames, but Silicon Valley and Washington refuse to learn anything.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains the dangers and costs of Wall Street’s Ponzi schemes.
Read more...A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.
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...Private equity has its greedy eyes on a huge pot of money: 401(k) funds and their big ecosystem of service providers.
Read more...A well-warranted harsh look at the high cost an overly-large and ever-more-extractive finance sector imposes on society as a whole.
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...A new study finds that it’s not the Congress rank and file that generates insider trading big bucks, only some of the leaders.
Read more...Hoo boy. Russia looks to be using much demonized (by labor and environmental rights advocates) investor-state dispute settlement provisions to pursue Euroclear.
Read more...I want whatever Team Trump is smoking. Their Russian frozen assets plan has achieved impressive new levels of delusion.
Read more...A Tobin tax is a no-brainer for reducing speculation and financial crisis risk. That is reason enough to keep it from being implemented.
Read more...What Wordle play says about markets and bubbles.
Read more...Even with the Putin-Modi lovefest and shared strategic aims, meeting their trade targets will be a heavy lift.
Read more...Due to the shutdown, official economic data has slowed to a crawl. Policymakers, markets, and citizens are turning to private-sector numbers.
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