Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders introduce legislation: they call it Loan Shark Prevention, which would allow post offices to act as banks and cap interest rates at 15%, but credit card companies claim it would hurt the poor.
Read more...Public policy nudges devised by fans of behavioral scientst Richard Thaler might not be all that they are cracked up to be.
Read more...Is Iran in the midst of a “strategic surge”?
Read more...New CIEL study documents how plastic proliferation threatens the climate on a global scale.
Read more...Five states have enacted draconian laws after protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline generated national attention and inspired a wave of civil disobedience.
Read more...Another fiasco: charter schools in Louisiana.
Read more...Is Boeing itself on a crash course?
Read more...Many public pension funds are in a very deep underfunding hole, and too many are resorting to high fee investment strategies that at this point in the cycle are costly hopium. Gordon Hamlin, a pro bono advier to public pensions, sets forth a strategy for the most deeply underfunded state pension, the Kentucky Retirement System.
Read more...Why the US needs to embrace an industiral policy to combat climate change.
Read more...The UK looks likely to welcome to pass the Assange hot potato to Sweden….which could turn out to be a lucky break.
Read more...Why the US and China are gridlocked on trade.
Read more...SEC proposes relaxing internal control attestation requirements for companies with annual revenues of less than $100 million.
Read more...A discussion of using bank lending as a way to tackle climate change.
Read more...Keep your eye on what Assange’s real offenses are in the minds of the officialdom.
Read more...Lambert gingerly enters the worlds of gaming and Republican politics.
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