The Clinton Campaign Continues to Help Trump Ensure That Policy Won’t Matter in This Election
Is the Clinton campaign playing straight into Trump’s lead?
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TSA as Example of Privatization Playbook: Make an Agency Perform Badly By Underfunding It….
A case study of how privatization vultures weaken public agencies so as to turn them into their prey.
Read more...Hensarling’s “Market Regulation” Replacement to Dodd Frank Proves He Does Not Understand Banking
Yves here. Steve Waldman wrote a definitive post in 2009, Capital can’t be measured, on a core issue that Black discusses here. A key section: So, for large complex financials, capital cannot be measured precisely enough to distinguish conservatively solvent from insolvent banks, and capital positions are always optimistically padded. Given these facts, and I […]
Read more...The Supposedly Liberal NY Review of Books Published a Very Strange Review of Chomsky’s Latest
Wading into a dispute over Chomsky’s latest book, Who Rules the World?
Read more...Gaius Publius: Puerto Rico Democratic Party Reduced Primary Votes to 8% of What Was Expected
“Looks like the Clinton-led Democratic Party isn’t even trying to hide this stuff any more. Looks like they don’t think they need to. “
Read more...Democrat Primary Open Thread: California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, and South Dakota
The last Super Tuesday.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Millions Around the World Fleeing from Neoliberal Policy
Hudson tallies the high cost of neoliberal ideology.
Read more...Clinton Loyalist Authoritarianism: Brad DeLong Threatens a Journalist and Economists. Who is Next?
Brad DeLong’s self-assigned role as Team Clinton enforcer reflects poorly on him and the Clinton campaign.
Read more...Why So Many Americans Are Voting Against the Status Quo, in One Chart
This chart shows how much the bottom 90% has lost ground while the top 10% has pulled away.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: How Donald Trump Reveals the March of American Authoritarianism
Trump as a symbol of an America morphing into a visibly less democratic fading empire.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Comparing Debate Styles — Trump, Clinton, Sanders
Why a Trump-Clinton matchup is a Clinton train-wreck in the making, and why Sanders would do well against Trump.
Read more...The Abandonment of Countercyclical Fiscal Policy
Economists bemoan the lack of aggressive fiscal spending after the crisis. Funny how few of them were willing to advocate it when it mattered.
Read more...Gauis Publius: Three Data Points Regarding Clinton’s Email Server and the Law
Clearing up some of the confusion about the Clinton’s exposure in her e-mail server investigations.
Read more...Our Politico Story on Why Clinton Does Not Deserve the Sanders Vote
Clinton is not interested in representing Sanders voters. They’ve gotten the memo and are acting accordingly
Read more...EU’s Politically Biased Tax Haven Blacklist Excludes US and Switzerland
Only small fry get whacked for being tax havens. The big boys get their waivers.
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