Tories, Trapped by Their Red Lines, Again Blame EU as Clock Runs Down
Assume the brace position. A hard Brexit is looking more likely.
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Money: The High Cost of Betrayal
The misrepresentation of how the US money system works is worse than mere economic malpractice, which is already pretty common.
Read more...Why CalPERS Private Equity Outsourcing Beauty Show Is Arbitrary and Capricious
More evidence that CalPERS is making a hugely important and costly decision in a cavalier, even reckless, manner.
Read more...All Guns, No Butter: Military Contractors as Welfare Queens
The Trump budget is particularly shameless in providing more pork to the military despite the absence of any genuine pressing need.
Read more...Corbyn’s Brexit Challenge: From the Frying Pan into the Fire?
Unfortunately, Corbyn finally stepping into the Brexit fray looks like different cherry picking and potentially even more political upheaval.
Read more...Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon: Lowering the Nuclear Threshold and Other Follies of the New Nuclear Posture Review
New Pentagon Nuclear Posture Review makes nuclear war more likely, as a logical extension of policies launched by Trump’s predecessor.
Read more...Supreme Court Narrows Dodd-Frank SEC Whistleblower Protections
Supreme Court’s whistleblower protections decision may lead employees to call the SEC rather than risk an internal corporate complaint.
Read more...Beat the Right Wing Framing: How to Make the Case for a Better, Fairer Economy
The right has been winning the PR wars on economic issues. A major UK research project has some ideas for how to turn that around.
Read more...Inside the Trump Admin’s Fight to Keep the Keystone XL Approval Process Secret
The Trump Administration has been withholding documents in the ongoing suit against the Keystone XL pipeline.
Read more...How Much Do New York Times Reporters Use Anonymous Sources?
An analysis of David Sanger’s work at the New York Times in 2017 gives a sense of how much reporters crib from anonymous “official” sources.
Read more...Tories Double Down on Brexit Fantasies as EU Again Says “Nein”
Yet another Groundhog Day in Brexit land…
Read more...Trump’s Bogus Infrastructure Plan Takes the U.S. Further Down the Road of Rentier Capitalism
The public-private partnerships Trump proposes are a sick neoliberal joke.
Read more...Treasury Proposes Dubious, Untested Chapter 14 Bankruptcies for Too Big to Fail Banks
Treasury released an ideologically-driven proposal to change Dodd Frank’s resolution authority.
Read more...New JAMA Study Shows that Electronic Health Records Do Not Reduce Administrative Costs
New study on the EHR debacle shows that our multiple payer system creates the complexity that prevents cost-saving and makes EHRs so hard to implement
Read more...Do Russiagate Skeptics Go Too Far?
A Russiagate debate.
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