Investment Implications of the Rise of the New Lumpenproletariat and Political Shocks
How rising numbers of the new lumpenproletariat, meaning contingent and least-paid workers, are reshaping economies and politics.
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Uncovered California: Why Millions Have Fallen Into Health Care Gaps
How Covered California, the best Obamacare implementation in the US, still falls well short of its promise.
Read more...More Doubts About Brexit Fantasies
The UK still appears to be ignoring the EU’s negotiating boundaries on Brexit.
Read more...Sanders Delegation Plotting in Public and Secretly to Shake Up Democratic Convention
Many Sanders delegates are planning rearguard actions at the Democratic convention.
Read more...Michael Hudson: US-NATO Border Confrontation with Russia Risks Nuclear War and Loss of European Partners
On the rising nuclear war risk due to NATO-Russia confrontation.
Read more...Will Italian Banks Tear Down Europe?
Will Italian banks be the detonator of a political and economic crisis?
Read more...Louis Proyect: Misusing German History to Scare Up Votes for Hillary Clinton
Distorting German history so as not just to equate Trump to Hitler but also to equate the left with Weimar socialists.
Read more...Angela Merkel Rap Video
Angela Merkel has arrived. She now has a rap parody.
Read more...Michael Hudson: William Goetzmann’s Money Changes Everything – A Travesty of Financial History Which Bank Lobbyists Will Applaud
Why William Goetzmann’s Money Changes Everything is unadulterated Austrian twattle.
Read more...Warren, Sanders, Brown, Merkley, Reed, 4 Other Senators, Ask the SEC to Get Out of Bed on Private Equity
As strange as it may seem, eight Senators ganging up on the SEC over yet another private equity lapse is a sign of a change in the zeitgeist.
Read more...How Treasurer Chiang’s Designee Grant Boyken Duped CalPERS’ Board to the Detriment of Taxpayers and Beneficiaries
How California Treasurer John Chiang’s deputy, Grant Bokyen, snookered CalPERS’ board to facilitate gutting a private equity reform bill.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Picking Up James Comey’s Pieces — What He Did, What He Should Have Done & Why
On the logic, such as it was, of FBI chief James Comey’s decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for her e-mail chicanery.
Read more...OC Register: CalPERS Expected to Show Multi-Billion Loss for Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2016
CalPERS at best laid a big goose egg for its 2015-2016 results. It remains in denial about its return prospects, to the detriment of beneficiaries and taxpayers.
Read more...Louis Proyect: Rooting for the Bulls
Bullfighting and the running of the bulls as symbols of Spain’s feudal past, and why they persist.
Read more...Congress Exposes That DoJ Overruled Recommendation to Indict Money Launderer HSBC Over Too Big to Fail Worries
Why money-launderer HSBC got off so easy in 2012: it had lots of official help.
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