Biden Administration Urged to Take More Aggressive Steps to Relieve Medical Debt
The Biden Administration has yet to take comparatively easy steps to reduce medical debt abuses.
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Why Student Debt Cancellation Is Reasonable, Not Radical
Discuss: “The right has narrowed the parameters of discussion on student debt forgiveness. Biden is not fighting back aggressively enough.”
Read more...Secret Power and the Persecution of Julian Assange
Stefania Maurizi’s “Secret Power: Wikileaks and its Enemies” chronicles Wikileaks’ publications and the dehumanization of Julian Assange.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai on Dollar Imperialism
A deep dive on the development of the dollar system.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Two: Losses Top $33 Billion But Uber Has Avoided The Equity Collapse Most “Tech” Startups Experienced
An update on Uber financial fakery and continued lack of bona fide profits.
Read more...Jim Chanos: The Golden Age of Fraud in Finance
Famed short seller Jim Chanos discusses the ever-rising role of fraud in the US financial system and his views of China.
Read more...One Texas Judge Will Decide Fate of Abortion Pill Used by Millions of American Women
Abortion foes have opened another potentially big front with an attack on the FDA approval status of an “abortion pill” medication.
Read more...Jared Holst: The Criminal Value Chain
Police reform schemes avoid addressing the causes of criminal activity, most of all poverty. But that would mean giving nice things to people
Read more...In Rural America, Right-to-Repair Laws Are the Leading Edge of a Pushback Against Growing Corporate Power
After years of efforts to advance right-to-repair rules, farmers are starting to get traction.
Read more...The Government Makes a Profit on Defaulted Student Loans
The Federal government’s unheard of profits on defaulted student loans confirms that the scheme is predatory. And defaults are set to rise.
Read more...The Irish Question
Brexit fudged the question of the Irish border. The Tory “Ultras” that pushed for a hard Brexit are still loaded for bear on this matter.
Read more...Reversing 30 Years of Damage from the Clintons, the DOJ Closes A Price-Fixing Loophole Wide Enough to Drive a Truck Through
Why are you paying so much for everything? DOJ admits that decades-old carveout allowed even non concentrated industries to effectively build cartels to coordinate prices and wages
Read more...Occupy the SEC Questions Unduly Generous Treatment of Disclosures by Corporate Beneficial Owners, aka Potential Tax Evaders
Occupy the SEC objects to portions of supposed corporate transparency regulation that hide more than is called for.
Read more...The Presentation of Video Evidence in Court Can Hold Sway in Cases Like the Beating Death of Tyre Nichols
Video is tricky, even when the user isn’t trying to spin its audience.
Read more...CalPERS’ Refusal to Put Clearly Insolvent Long-Term Care Insurance Plan in Bankruptcy Increases Harm to Policyholders and Makes Board and Responsible Executives Liable
CalPERS continues to behave badly.
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