A Quick Note About Additional FTX Sleaze
Some shady FTX behavior that hopefully won’t be lost in the shuffle of new revelations.
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FTX: New Ex-Enron CEO Finds “Complete Absence of Trustworthy Financial Information,” $3.3 Billion Loans to SBF, Customer Deposits Not Recorded on Balance Sheets; Confirms Software Backdoors, Auto-Deleted Communications
FTX is an even bigger mess than someone with a creative streak might have imagined.
Read more...Not Every Robin = Spring and Not Every Story About Moving Away from the Dollar Is Well Founded
A small illustration of why some of the stories about reducing dollar dependence are misguided.
Read more...Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Were Up to No Good, Including Their Customer Agreement
In the unlikely event you have any doubt, Sam Bankman-Fried and his merry band of FTX rogues look mighty dishonest.
Read more...Oil Executives Warn G7 Price Cap Could Lead To Stranded Tankers
The more you look at the G7 Russian oil price scheme, the worse it appears.
Read more...How Workers and Pro-Union Politicians Team Up for Fair Trade
The US gets out of bed to go after some illegal foreign trade subsidies. Sadly this sort of thing does not happen very often.
Read more...The Public Shouldn’t Pay for Drugs Twice
Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but drug companies profit. We need a new R&D model to stop this rentierism.
Read more...A Brief History of the Mortgage, From Its Roots in Ancient Rome to the English ‘Dead Pledge’ and its Rebirth in America
The backstory of what is now arguably the most widely-used form of lending in principal terms, the mortgage.
Read more...U.S. Companies Now Charge Ex-Employees for Their Training
Training clawbacks as yet another wage theft scam.
Read more...Is Breaking Things the Best Way Forward for Climate Activists?
From SUVs to gas pipelines, sabotage is on the rise as the climate crisis deepens – but does it work?
Read more...EU Imposes Secondary Sanctions on Russian Steel in Eighth Sanctions Package. Is Türkiye the Target?
the EU using an obscure steel secondary sanction to whack Türkiye?
Read more...Supreme Court Grapples with Animal Welfare in a Challenge to a California Law Requiring Pork to Be Humanely Raised
By David Favre, Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and Co-Founder of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Republished from The Conversation. Should Californians be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals that are raised in other states if products from those animals are to be sold in California? The […]
Read more...Is ‘Seize Now, Sort It Later’ Itself an Assault on Liberty?
In a novelist’s world, there’d be two attacks on liberty, and the public would be led to see one of them.
Read more...Kentucky Retirement Systems Lawsuit Targets New York Fixer Regina Calcaterra for Alleged Bid Fixing
What passes for the elite in this country is normally immune from prosecution or even career harm if they follow their monetary interests: curry favor with the right people, never cross anyone important unless the potential payoff is worth it. Morals be damned. We may have the gratifying spectacle of someone who openly, as in […]
Read more...Tories Create a Hostile Environment for Gypsies and Travellers
Tory policy and legislation on Gypsies and Travellers deprives them of a place to live and targets them with criminal penalties.
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