Gaius Publius: The American Flag and What It Stands For
Parsing the symbolism of the American flag.
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CalPERS Doubles Down on Its Illegal Election, Makes “Absurd” Claim That It Is Above the Law
CalPERS refuses to change its election procedures to comply with California law, and has doubled down on ridiculous justifications instead.
Read more...Tax Sausage Making Begins, But Will Republicans Be Happy With the Result?
Tax “reform” is going to produce more Republican infighting and a bill that falls short of expectations. Pass the popcorn.
Read more...CalPERS Can’t Even Figure Out How to Count Ballots in Accordance With Its Own Election Regulation, Let Alone Comply With California Law
CalPERS keeps digging its election hole even deeper.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Schäuble Leaves but Schäuble-ism Lives On
Wolfgang Schäuble’s legacy as German finance minister lives on, and not in a good way.
Read more...Wall Street Got a Bailout, Why Not Puerto Rico?
How Puerto Rico has gone from an economic disaster area to a humanitarian crisis in the making.
Read more...Wall Street and City of London Getting Nervous About Catalonia
Yves here. Neither side appears willing to back down in the battle of wills over the Catalonia independence vote set for this Sunday, October 1. The English language press has described how the Spanish government has declared the election to be illegal and Mariano Rajoy’s government has moved to try to shut it down, for […]
Read more...Health Care Debate: Sanders vs. Graham, Cassidy, and Klobuchar
As a debate, it wasn’t even close.
Read more...Jared Bernstein Shows the Costs of Not Understanding Sovereign Currencies
Jared Bernstein, like his fellow fauxgressives, endorses deficit hysteria instead of policies based on how our money system works.
Read more...EU Immigration – A Gateway Drug
Citizens have become far more sensitive to the perceived and real costs of immigration. Ignore those concerns and risk losing power.
Read more...Gentrification
Gentrification is less of an accident than you might have been led to believe.
Read more...UN Calls for Crackdown on Illicit Wildlife Trafficking
UN resolution calls for use of financial investigation techniques, among other measures, to crack down on illicit wildlife trafficking.
Read more...CalPERS Board Candidate Margaret Brown Objects to Unconstitutional, Non-Secret, Insecure, Unauditable Election; Vendor Handling Phone and Internet Voting Criticized for Incompetence, Exaggerating Security of On-Line Voting
CalPERS’ election procedures would embarrass any self-respecting banana republic.
Read more...Don Quijones: The Steep Price of Disaster in Mexico
Although the death toll is far less than the ’85 earthquake, Mexico now faces rebuilding with no insurance and little government aid.
Read more...John Helmer: Washington Post Misses Manafort’s Real Crimes
WaPo takes solid evidence of Paul Manafort’s real crime of fraud and transforms it into evidence of a fake one.
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