Bill Black: How Many Lies Can the WSJ Pack into a Chart on Liar’s Loans?
Bill Black is not happy about the revisionist history on liar’s loans. And separately, this piece is a useful exercise in the critical reading of narratives.
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The Middle East as America’s New Vietnam
There are obvious similarities between the US misadventures in the Middle East and our failed intervention in Vietnam. Yet the comparison is seldom made.
Read more...Krugman’s Cowardly, Dishonest Attack on David Dayen Over Krugman’s Misrepresentation of Sanders’ Financial Reforms
Paul Krugman’s recent posts have been most peculiar. Several have looked uncomfortably like special pleading for political figures he likes, notably Hillary Clinton.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: Six National Security Questions Hillary, Donald, Ted, Marco, etc., Don’t Want to Answer and Won’t Even Be Asked
In the realm of national security, election 2016 promises to be not just a missed opportunity but a complete bust.
Read more...New York Review of Books on How Oligarchs Use Philanthropy to Advance Their Social Agendas (and a Shout Out to NC)
How the 0.1% are using philanthropy as a Trojan Horse for social engineering.
Read more...Gauis Publius: The Clinton Campaign Speaks to the New York Times
The Clinton campaign is too obviously interested in its success over that of the nation. And despite the Sanders surge, it still believes in its inevitability.
Read more...“You Just Need to Be White to Win”
Ads for products to make skin white… and intersectionality.
Read more...The Obama Report Card: The Good, the Bad and the Incomplete
Why are so many people in the soi-disant left who are not career progressives, meaning not part of the Vichy Left, so cautious about calling out Obama’s failures?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Google Sarcasm, or How I (and the Entire Industry) Make a Living
Richter describes what it’s like as a publisher to be subject to the vagaries of Google Adsense.
Read more...5 of the Worst Examples of Biased and Distorted Media Coverage of Education in 2015
It’s not hard to see that the effort to loot, um, privatize education has an attack on teachers as a big part of its strategy…which undermines support for education.
Read more...CalPERS: Stockholm Syndrome and Cowardice on Private Equity Fee Disclosure
I have wanted to leave CalPERS alone. Really. Truly. But they keep asking for attention in the worst possible way.
Read more...Oxford City Football Club and its Onanistic Owner, Thomas Guerriero
Let’s start our latest illustration of how easily a reckless, internationally mobile crook can sidestep national regulators, with a helpful observation by Bess Levin at Dealbreaker in May 2010: Let it be known: if you are not interested in having your supervisor (circle all that apply:) send you videos of himself masturbating, texts about the […]
Read more...Pensions & Investment Editorial Savages Trustees for Failing to Perform Fiduciary Duty Over Private Equity Fees
Pensions & investments, in an astonishingly outspoken editorial, excoriated fund trustees for failing to perform their fiduciary duty and called for sanctions.
Read more...We Won a Fight Against CalPERS Over Its Plan to Ignore Private Equity Risk
A Los Angeles Times headline recapping a board meeting Monday says it all: “CalPERS shelves controversial private equity policy.”
Read more...Debunking “The Big Short”: How Michael Lewis Turned the Real Villains of the Crisis into Heroes
How Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, whether for profit or by accident, has denied the public the truth about what really causes the crisis.
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