Brexit Becomes More Unhinged as Tory Cage Match Intensifies While May Tries (Again) to Blame EU
The latest Brexit snow job reflects the fact that the Tories are a dead party walking.
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CFPB Issues Payday Lending Rule: Will it Hold, as the Empire Will Strike Back
How big a victory is the CFPB’s new payday lending rule for consumers of financial services? And will it hold– as the industry fights back.
Read more...Trump Adminstration Doubles Down on Efforts to Crapify the Entire Health Care System (Unless You’re Rich, of Course)
Sabotaging ObamaCare, gutting Medicaid with “tax reform”, eliminating essential benefits with “association plans”
Read more...Bismarck’s Health insurance And Its Impact on Mortality
The model for today’s health insurance systems was Otto von Bismarck’s compulsory health insurance, introduced in the German Empire in 1884. That’s 1884.
Read more...EU Dashes UK Fantasy of Talking About “Future Relationship,” Meaning Trade, Soon
Yet another Brexit fantasy bites this dust, this one the much-ballyhooed “future relationship” talks.
Read more...Catalonia Versus Spain: Conflict Escalates as Constitutional Court Nixes Independence Declaration Pre-Emptively
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Read more...Sneaky Trump Scheme Guarantees Profits of Coal and Nuclear Power Plant Owners
Trump’s latest giveaway: a massive subsidy to coal and nuclear plant operators via unnecessary and costly electricity backup requirements.
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Read more...Catalonia: Puigdemont Promises Secession in Days as King Censures Officials Acting Outside the Law
Gaming out possible moves by Spain if Catalonia proceeds with its secession plan.
Read more...Trump Says Puerto Rico Debt Needs to be Wiped Out
Trump speaks an inconvenient truth about Puerto Rico. How long before his minders walk it back?
Read more...Catalonia Blinks in Secession Staredown
Despite staging large-scale protests on Monday, Catalonia just revealed it is holding a weak set of cards in it secession efforts.
Read more...The Situation in Puerto Rico: Power, Water, and PROMESA
Puerto Rico’s austerity under PROMESA begets power failure begets water contamination and disease
Read more...How to Preserve Fundamental Rights on the Internet: a Guide
The Spanish government’s crackdown in Catalonia has shown that everyone needs tools to guarantee their fundamental rights online.
Read more...Standoff in Catalonia
Short term, Catalonia and Madrid are at loggerheads. The next phase is likely an escalation of violence as neither side backs down. ,
Read more...Crackdown in Catalonia
The government in Madrid takes even more aggressive moves to shut down an independence referendum in Catalonia already deemed to be illegal.
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