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...Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud.
Read more...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...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...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...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...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...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...The scandal over CalPERS’ failure to track “carry fees” has the industry worried enough that it is offering up ludicrous rationalizations.
Read more...Filling in some details on a bombshell report about a call that Varoufakis had with hedge fund managers about a parallel currency.
Read more...Memo to CalSTRS: When you are in a hole, stop digging.
Read more...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...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...The endless march of misreporting on the IMF and Lagarde’s statements continues.
Read more...By Nathan Tankus, a writer from New York City. Follow him on Twitter at @NathanTankus Earlier this week I did a detailed analysis of the way the media misreported Lew and Lagarde’s statements last week regarding Greece. Yesterday this type of misreporting reared its ugly head again when an update to the Debt Sustainability report […]
Read more...Most people don’t think too hard about the fact that there is a price for secrecy, and when the truth is dangerous, the price is high.
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