Bill Black and Michael Hudson on Corruption in Finance
A deep dive into why big money players have become critical to big corruption.
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Why Student Debt Is So High
The student loan program is a government-enabled transfer of wealth. How surprising is that?
Read more...In Court Testimony, Climate Scientists Rebuke Montana for Support of Fossil Fuels
The landmark trial marks the first time in US history that kids are testifying in court about the effects of climate change on their wellbeing.
Read more...Human-Caused Warming to Surpass Paris Agreement Limit by 2037, Analysis Finds
Another troubling global warming assessment.
Read more...Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
Edward Snowden describes how surveillace tools have become more powerful in the past decade
Read more...Wall Street Journal Aids Vulture Investors Threatening Second Mortgage Borrowers With Foreclosure….on (Nearly Always) Legally Unenforceable Debt
Mortgage predation is baaack! And the Wall Street Journal aids and abets it by choosing not to undertand the issues.
Read more...The Assisted Dying Debate Is Really About How We Treat the Living
A recent push to legalize assisted dying in France obscures more fundamental problems that plague end-of-life care.
Read more...No Bargain: Big Money and the Debt Ceiling Deal
What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?
Read more...Workers in the South Are Defying History with Union Wins
Union campaigns are scoring more successes in the South despite the high-profile defeat at the Amazon wareouse in Bessemer, Alabama
Read more...The Debt Ceiling End-Game
So what can the Administration do, instead of blink, in the debt ceiling staredown?
Read more...CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Musicco and Son in NBA Playoffs Courtside Seats Next to Billionaire Warriors Owner and Kleiner Perking Partner Joe Lacob. What Gives?
Another case of a CalPERS executive, here Chief Investment Officer Nicole Musicco, making clear they think they are above California law
Read more...New Wave of Asylum-Seekers at US Southern Border as Title 42 Expires
Even the mainstream media acknowledges that an expected surge of immigrants at the US border will push a bad situation into crisis.
Read more...A New Republican Assault on Children: Overturning Labor Laws
Big employers like McDonalds have been caught illegally employing children. Some state want to regulize that. But is this just a GOP affair?
Read more...What is Section 4 of the 14th Amendment, “The Validity of the Public Debt of the United States?”
As the Republicans are digging on raising the debt ceilings, the idea of a constitutional challenge is starting to get traction.
Read more...Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America
Brendan Ballou talks to Rob about his forthcoming book, Plunder, about the growing harmful role of private equity in the US.
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