Category Archives: Politics

Trump Never Had a Grand Strategy for China: They Were Just Tariff Tantrums

Trump’s tariff strategy is obviously incoherent, but other approaches like anti-trust to improve the US trade’s position are sorely wanting.

CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: Underhanded, Dishonest Plans to Cut Investment Meetings of Poorly Performing Fund by More Than 50%, Shrink Investment Committee

The first of a two-part series describing the process and substance with which CalPERS staff is trying to engineer a de facto resignation of its board.

CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: “Attempted Coup” via Unconstitutional, Fiduciary-Duty-Violating “Code of Conduct”

Just when you think CalPERS can’t sink any lower, it manages to outdo itself, this time, with an illegal governance monstrosity masquerading a code of conduct.

CalPERS Board Member Theresa Taylor Breached Confidentiality, Board Engaged in Apparent Criminal Violations of Open Meeting Law in Attacks on Pro-Transparency Board Membrs

CalPERS has managed to outdo itself, in a predictably bad way.

De-Facto Annexation of Kashmir Means India as a Secular State is Ending

Some of the implications of India’s annexation of Kashmir.

Who Will Pay for the Huge Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?

Combatting rising seas is a big ticket item, and one beyond the meane even of prosperous cities.

Brexit: According to Script

The commentariat’s Brexit predictions are playing out, sadly.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Death, Critical Thinking, and the Decline of Reporting

Why neither the government nor the press have covered themselves in glory in ‘splaining the death of Jeffrey Epstein.

How New York City Has Worked to Protect People from the Deadliest Disaster: Heat

New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from heat.

Bretton Woods Institutions: Enforcers, Not Saviours?

The two Bretton Woods institutions the have huge credibility deficits due to the policy conditionalities and advice they have dispensed to developing countries in recent decades.

Brexit Breakup

More consternation about Johnson’s possible Brexit moves.

Austerity Has Made People Less Prepared for a No Deal Brexit

The government says it’s preparing for a Brexit crash out. But ten years of spending cuts have made the people of Britain intensely vulnerable to economic shock.

CalPERS Staff Caught Out in Yet Another Power Grab, Tries Gagging the Board With Staff’s “Board Code of Conduct”

The CalPERS board continues to waste time on tinpot tyranny rather than focusing on the challenge of the penion system’s substantial underfunding.

5 Reasons Why Trump’s Venezuela Embargo Won’t End the Maduro Regime

Why the sanctions on Venezuela aren’t all they are cracked up to be.