Uber’s Woes Mount: California Strips Driverless Cars’ Registration, Losses Rise, VAT Charges Loom
Uber has a bad week.
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Italy Announces Sketchy Plan to Bail Out Monte dei Paschi
The Monte dei Paschi domino is finally about to fall. But what does that mean in practice?
Read more...Flint Water Crisis: Michigan AG Pursues Felony Indictments Against Former Emergency Managers
Felony indictments of managers promise some accountability in the Flint Water Crisis. Will this extend up the political chain of command?
Read more...Student Loan Crisis Increasingly Snares Seniors’ Social Security Benefits
Rising student loan defaults by older borrowers leads some to see Social Security benefits garnished, pushing some below the poverty line.
Read more...Trump Administration May Use Global Magnitsky Act Human Rights Authority to Advance Foreign Policy Goals
Pending US and UK Magnitsky measures target individuals for human rights violations and corruption via visa denial and other sanctions.
Read more...Conflicts of Interest Not New to the Age of Trump: Many Politicians Voting for the TARP Bailout Protected Their Own Wealth
Conflicts of interest are not new to US politics; this paper shows how TARP votes tracked the stock portfolios of member of Congress.
Read more...Customers Foot Bill for Florida Utilities to Build ‘Unnecessary’ Gas Infrastructure For Excess Profit
Florida electricity customers will foot the bill to build natural gas infrastructure surplus to projected demand to benefit power company.
Read more...The Fundamental Flaw in Muddied Brexit Thinking
Brexit negotiators seem clueless about how to get out of their own way. Here’s why.
Read more...My Favorite Ten Podcasts (with Yves on “This is Hell,” Talking about “Fake News”)
This year I “discovered” podcasts….
Read more...The Econocracy: An Interview with Cahal Mora
The new book Econocracy describes how economics training discourages critical thinking, overreaches, overpromises, and underdelivers.
Read more...Investment in Early Childhood Education Yields Substantial Gains for the Economy
Yes, Virginia, more education for the lower orders really does pay off.
Read more...British Press in a Tizzy that the EU Will Be Mean to the City of London in Brexit
The whinging from entitled Brits over the fact that the EU is playing Brexit hardball is getting annoying.
Read more...The Story That Russia Does Not Want You to See: The Rosneft Share “Sale” as a Sham Transaction
The widely-reported sale of a 19.5% stake in Rosneft to Glencore and Qatar looks like a sham transaction.
Read more...Trump’s Carbon-Obsessed Energy Policy and the Coming Climate Nightmare
Trump plans to take the Palin “Drill, baby, drill” strategy to a new level.
Read more...So Who Gets to Pay for Italy’s Banking Crisis?
The pretense that even Monte dei Paschi can be bailed out privately is being abandoned. So how will Italy’s sick banks be salvaged?
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