FT Alphaville Credits Our Richard Smith for Busting GXG Markets, “European Scam-Central”
Richard Smith’s relentless gumshoe work has put a rancid fraud-enabler, GXG Global Exchange Group, out of business.
Read more...Category Archives: Media watch
The GM Labeling Law to End All Labeling Laws
Campaigners for the Orwellianly-named “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015” falsely demonize those who want GM labeling as anti-science.
Read more...Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud
Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud.
Read more...Our Bloomberg OpEd on Public Pensions’ Failure to Stand Up to Private Equity Stealing and Other Abuses
Bloomberg runs our op ed on how private equity investors have been so feckless that they deserve to lose their accredited investor status.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go? War, Vietnam and Today
How shocking images of the Vietnam war helped stoke the antiwar movement of the 1960s, and how we’ve since become inured to them and the horrors of war generally.
Read more...Clinical Trial Transparency Effort Encounters Deafening Silence in US Launch; Agnotology or Anechoic Effect?
A successful initiative in the UK to obtain more registration and publication of clinical trial data has had its US launch utterly ignored , not simply the mainstream media but also the logical suspects in the medical trade press and scholarly journals..
Read more...Media Hypes Praluent, the Next Expensive “Blockbuster” Not Yet Shown to Benefit Patients
Another example of the corruption of science: the press falls all over itself hyping Praluent, a new cholesterol-lowering drug with remarkably inconclusive clinical trial data behind it. As Roy Poses points out, “The clinical benefit of the drug was not evident in this trial.”
Read more...What is the IMF?
By Nathan Tankus, a writer from New York City. Follow him on Twitter at @NathanTankus International political economy is filled with an alphabet soup of organizations that govern all different areas of economic life. Journalists and other commentators tend to talk about these organizations like they have singular positions and immutable opinions. They do not. Instead […]
Read more...IMF Staff Attempts to Spread Discord Over Greek Bailout to IMF Board
Nathan Tankus reports on the latest developments in the IMF staff’s growing war against a deal. Can they succeed in sowing dissent?
Read more...Private Equity Shills Resort to Ludicrous Arguments to Try to Deflect “Carry Fee” Reporting Scandal
The scandal over CalPERS’ failure to track “carry fees” has the industry worried enough that it is offering up ludicrous rationalizations.
Read more...Comparison of Greek and English Version of Kathimerini Scoop on Varoufakis Parallel Currency Plan
Filling in some details on a bombshell report about a call that Varoufakis had with hedge fund managers about a parallel currency.
Read more...CalSTRS Doubles Down in Private Equity Carry Fee Reporting Scandal
Memo to CalSTRS: When you are in a hole, stop digging.
Read more...New York Times DealBook Underplays Misconduct By Regulatory Fixer Promontory, Under Investigation by New York Department of Financial Services
Promontory Group, which plays a major role in helping financial firms tilt the regulatory playing field in their favor, is about to get a long-overdue comeuppance.
Read more...Private Equity Carry Fee Scandal Spreads to CalSTRS After NC Points Out Connection
A carry fee reporting scandal that started at CalPERS has spread to CalSTRS as California Treasurer John Chiang says he’ll ask questions.
Read more...Say It With Me: Lagarde Is NOT Threatening To Scuttle Bailout Deal
The endless march of misreporting on the IMF and Lagarde’s statements continues.
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