Trump Reiterates Support for a New Glass-Steagall Act, But It Will it Pass Congress?
This Real News Network interview discusses where Trump and his allies stand on reviving Glass-Steagall.
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More Evidence School Choice Hurts Student Performance
More proof that “school choice” as in vouchers, is about profiteering and ideology rather than better education.
Read more...Mark Ames: The FBI Has No Legal Charter But Lots of Kompromat
The extra-constitutional, thuggish history of the FBI.
Read more...Board Candidate Asks Whether CalPERS Is Cooking the Books to Fatten Bonuses
CalPERS board candidate Margaret Brown finds a lot not to like in the way CalPERS continues to play fast and loose with figures.
Read more...Some Public Pension Funds Taking on Outsized Private Equity and Hedge Fund Fees
Public pension funds might finally be getting over their unhealthy co-dependent relationships with private equity and hedge funds.
Read more...New Jersey’s Flooding Crisis Hits Low-Income People Hardest
New Jersey’s flooding problems as a microcosm of what is to come.
Read more...The Financial Crisis That Spawned Austerity, Corporatized the Democratic Party and Gave the World Donald Trump
Why New York City’s fiscal crisis was a watershed event.
Read more...As Clinton Blames Comey & Russia, Authors of “Shattered” Expose Aimless Campaign
One of the authors of the Clinton campaign expose Shattered describes some of the ways in which the campaign undermined itself.
Read more...How Financialization and the “New Economy” Hurt Science and Engineering Grads
How the “new economy” devalued science and engineering degrees.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Trump – A Nation in Crisis, Again
Trump’s opponents are using the Comey scandal to up their efforts to force Trump out. Is this likely to succeed?
Read more...Illinois Bill Targets Carried Interest Loophole
The Illinois, New York and Connecticut legislatures are end-running the Feds by going after the carried interest loophole.
Read more...In Bleak Prognosis, Italy’s Financial Regulator Threatens EU with Return to a “National Currency”
European officials continue to dither while Italy’s banks burn.
Read more...International Arbitration Is the Way to Settle the UK’s Brexit Bill
Arbitration would be a good way to resolve the thorniest Brexit issue, of settling the tab. But politics seem to preclude a sensible outcome.
Read more...Ilargi: Comey and the End of Conversation
Political and media reactions to the Comey firing show that American democracy is becoming dangerously factionalized.
Read more...Will Trump’s Firing of FBI Director James Comey Be His Saturday Night Massacre? (Updated)
James Comey is out. What does this mean for Trump?
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