Catch Us on Harry Shearer’s Le Show Today!
We appear on Harry Shearer’s Le Show, discussing private equity and CalPERS. Be sure to tune in!
Read more...We appear on Harry Shearer’s Le Show, discussing private equity and CalPERS. Be sure to tune in!
Read more...We’ll speak with Josh Scheer about the how the Washington Post’s smear against 199 independent news sites is more serious than it might seem.
Read more...In a not-exactly-shocking development of the ongoing Wells Fargo account faking scandal (see our previous coverage here, here and here if you’re late to the party and need a quick catch-up) CEO John Stumpf, fighting a rear-guard action, is making outlandish claims about how, having begun the process of contacting customers who it has cause to […]
Read more...Listen to the stream or download the podcast from our interview with Harry Shearer last weekend. It’s gotten high marks.
Read more...The Billion Dollar Moldova Bank Scam: gateway to the UK’s money laundering mess
Read more...The BBC follows up on the billion-dollar Moldovan bank scam, and Naked Capitalism kicks off a new series on money laundering in the UK
Read more...Nathan Tankus talks to YSI INET about a Grexit and Greece
Read more...Why is it Groundhog Day? Back in 2011, I wrote a seriously messy blog post about dodgy New Zealand FSPs (Financial Services Providers), their dodgy web sites and people and addresses, and the evidently nonexistent oversight of all of this by the NZ Ministry of Economic Development and the NZ Companies Office. To my surprise, […]
Read more...CNN approached us about writing an op-ed on the $8.9 billion BNP Paribas settlement and you can see the article here. This is the first time we’ve written for them and they seemed happy with the outcome.
I’ve been remiss in not making an observation about the settlement.
Read more...Hope you enjoy this chat about private equity on the RT show Boom/Bust from Friday.
Read more...Wow, Obama is really losing it. He can’t even manage a good war scare any more.
Read more...I very much enjoyed this chat on why banker are able to extract such extortionate pay so much and hope you do as well (as in the talk, not the underlying fact set).
Read more...I had fun on this interview…
Read more...I hope you’ll enjoy this chat. Moyers gave Dean Baker and me over a half-hour on his show, so we were able to give a decent treatment of the issues surrounding the mislabeled trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership as well as the ongoing budget battle
Read more...I’ve been violating the Gore Vidal rule of media (“never turn down the opportunity to have sex or be on TV”) but in Vidal’s day, TV was broadcast, with mass audiences and major impact. Trust me, if you blink, you’ll miss the bit where I make a couple of observations in this new RT show.
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