National Audit Office Warns of Brexit Customs IT Train Wreck….Nine Months After Naked Capitalism
Yet another big Brexit disaster in the making.
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Monetary Sovereigns, Monetary Subjects: Modern Money & The Criminal Legal System
On the connection between money, and in particular monetary sovereignity, and the criminal justice system.
Read more...Single Market Maze Contains Clues to Complex Brexit Puzzle
Brexit boosters have sidestepped the issue of reconstituting trading arrangements, a major lapse.
Read more...Bill Black: The CFPB Arbitration Rule is Pro (Honest) Businesses
The CFPB takes a modest but important step to rein in fraud against consumers, which has banks hoppin’ mad.
Read more...All Politics is Local: Why the Odds Are Against TrumpUncare (BCRA, BCRA + “Consumer Choice,” and AHCA)
The odds of passing BCRA, BCRA plus the Cruz Amendment, or ObamaCare repeal.
Read more...Lee Camp: Enjoy the Trump Show While Wall Street Pillages the Country
Trump’s Wall Street allies are pleased that the press isn’t paying much attention to market froth and rising debt as he pushes deregulation.
Read more...More Brexit Backpedaling, UK May Relent on ECJ Red Line for “Transition Period”
Yet more Brexit bad news just before Theresa May is set to present her Great Repeal Bill.
Read more...Aiding and Abetting Trump as Tweeter-in-Chief
The media fixation with Trump’s tweets is leading them to shirk real reporting on what Trump is up to.
Read more...Why You Should Never Use a Supply and Demand Diagram for Labor Markets
Showing how using default models for labor markets is a dumb idea.
Read more...18 States Sue Betsy DeVos to Reinstate Rules Protecting Students from Predatory Private Colleges
More pushback against Betty DeVos’ support for educational profiteering.
Read more...Some Remarks on MMT & Marxism in Light of David Harvey’s “Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason”
How Marxists can make use of the MMT framework rather than falling for neoliberal dogma about money and debt.
Read more...Poverty, Crime and Causality
A Swedish study has some novel findings on the relationship between crime and poverty.
Read more...Instead of Trying to Sabotage the Trump-Putin Meeting, Democrats Should Support Vital Proposals
The dangers of Democrats continuing to foment hostilities with Putin.
Read more...Lee Camp: Have No Fear – Trump Is Lying Us Into War Just Like All The Presidents Before Him
The Donald is completely conventional in having the media assist him in fomenting war on trumped-up grounds.
Read more...US Senate Strikes for Russian Equality – The Oligarchs Targeted in New Sanctions Bill
Parsing the details and the logic of the Senate sanctions against Russia and in particular, its oligarchs.
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