Carmakers and California Agree on Emissions Rules
Carmakers agree to comply “voluntarily” with California’s tightened emissions standards – thus thwarting Trump plans to rollback proposed nationwide rules.
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Roundup Roundup: Judge Slashes Punitive Damages Award in Glyphosate Lawsuit
A third judge reduced the eye-popping punitive damages award in a glyphosate lawsuit; Bayer faces a plethora of pending cases and potential huge liability.
Read more...Brexit: Boris Johnson’s Impossibility Theorem
No one is blinking in the Brexit staredown.
Read more...Trump Promised Massive Infrastructure Projects—Instead We’ve Gotten Nothing
Even budget hawks ought to embrace infrastructure spending, since those projects typically produce $3 of tax revenues for every $1 spent when there’s a backlog, as we clearly have in the US. So what is Trump’s excuse?
Read more...Nobel Economist Angus Deaton: Inequality is Destroying Democratic Capitalism
Angus Deaton argues that the present level of inequality is a threat to “democratic capitalism” but contends that historically, even more severe inequality has been reversed.
Read more...The Politics of CEOs
Quelle surprise! CEOs back parties with an eye to increasing their own power.
Read more...“We Wargamed the Last Days of Brexit. Here’s What We Found Out.”
Yves here. It seemed fitting to post again on Brexit, if nothing else to commemorate, if that’s the right word, Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister of the UK Wednesday afternoon. It’s not a good omen that the EU has felt compelled to debunk Johnson’s campaign claims about Brexit that have been taken up again by […]
Read more...Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg’s Fake Accounts Ponzi Scheme
Why Facebook may be a bigger fraud than Enron.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Seeks to Cut Private Equity Down to Size
Elizabeth Warren’s bill to end private equity abuses targets a wide range of bad practices.
Read more...John Helmer: MH17 Evidence Tampering Revealed by Malaysia – FBI Attempt To Seize Black Boxes; Dutch Cover-Up of Forged Telephone Tapes; Ukrainian Air Force Hid Radar Records; Crash Site Witness Testimony Misreported
The Malaysian government has come out against the findings of the JIT in the MH17 crash, charging US, Urkainian, and other offiicials with lying and engaging in evidence suppression and tampering.
Read more...Robert O. Paxton’s “The Five Stages of Fascism”
Extracts from the work of Robert O. Paxton, with an assessment of the stage our political system has arrived at under the Trump administration.
Read more...Syriza, R.I.P.
The rule of the “radical left” Greek party Syriza came to an end earlier this month after it had abandoned its promise of reform.
Read more...Trump’s Peace Plan and the Future of Palestine
Trying to cut through the noise of Trump’s Palestine deal-making efforts.
Read more...“The Ten Brexit Questions No-One’s Giving a Straight Answer To”
A short Brexit update and some questions on the state of Labour.
Read more...CalPERS’ Long-Term Care Policy Train Wreck – Is Bankruptcy the End Game?
CalPERS’ long-term care policy mess is even worse than industry norms, which is saying quite a lot.
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