Germany and IMF in Staredown Over Greek Debt Relief
The IMF and Germany have staked out irreconcilable positions on Greece. Who will blink first?
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Hall of Shame: HUD Finally Forces Private Equity Buyers of Distressed Mortgages to Give Real Modifications After Years of Complaints Now That HUD Chief is on Clinton VP List
HUD finally acts on a festering problem, apparently to improve the odds of HUD chief Julian Castro getting a plum Clinton Administration post.
Read more...Bill Black: Mankiw’s Mythical Ten Commandments of Theoclassical Economics
Examining Maniw’s core myths, um, principles, and how they are dangerously misleading.
Read more...After Distancing Herself From Bill Clinton’s Economic Policies, Hillary Wants Him as Mr. Economic Fix It
Like the Bourbons, the Clintons appear to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
Read more...Democratic Establishment’s Thuggish Power Grab at Nevada Convention
The Democratic party establishment shows its true colors in Nevada.
Read more...Ian Fraser: Just How Corrupt is The UK?
Never mind the “fantastically corrupt” Afghanistan and Nigeria. What about the UK?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Which US Companies Stockpile the Most Profit “Overseas?” But Where the Heck is the Money?
ebunking the mythology of overseas “profit”.
Read more...Trump Slams US Wars in the Middle East
Despite his considerable flaws as a candidate, Trump is making a serious case against US policy in the Middle East.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: “Obama’s Hiroshima Visit Is Shaping Up To Be a PR Disaster”
Our instinct that Obama’s “look forward, not back” approach to his Hiroshima visit would not go over well in Japan is panning out.
Read more...Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions Accelerating
New rules by the US Treasury to curb corporate inversions haven’t done enough to slow the rising tide.
Read more...Clinton Policies Have Hurt Women
Clinton preaches trickle-down feminism, which just like trickle-down economics, serves only the interests of those at the top of the food chain.
Read more...Satyajit Das: “Stay in the Name of Reform” – The Fed and ISDA’s Derivative Bankruptcy Initiative
Why a proposal to “stay” derivatives termination in the event of bank bankruptcy is inconsequential and avoids bigger questions about the use of derivatives and failure to rein in risks in this market.
Read more...Democrat Hedge Fund Investors Underwrite Political Networks to Privatize K-12 Public Education
Who says Democrats and Wall Street don’t get along? Hedge funds promote a war on teachers’ unions to boost school privatizations.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions
Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.
Read more...As Clinton Looks Vulnerable, Event Risk Favors Trump (and Sanders)
When Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, you could almost hear the glee from Camp Clinton. Lambert called the tweets from her supporters “giddy”. The pundits saw Advantage Clinton in her presumed lock on women, blacks, Hispanics, as well as the divide of red versus blue states working in her favor. Yet the body […]
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