Exposing the serious numerical and conceptual flaws of yet another study that uses the trumped-up claim that the Postal Service is trouble to justify dismembering it.
Read more...How police forces are openly taking the position that they are not accountable to democratic processes and how that attitude is translating into policies and actions.
Read more...Objections to the notion of debt-free money.
Read more...What’s at stake: The rise of the extreme right in the latest French election has mostly been treated as surprising or reflecting special circumstances like the November 13 Paris attacks. But a large literature linking extreme right votes to persisting depressed economic conditions suggests that longer run factors are at play.
Read more...How the West is deploying the IMF to fight the nightmare scenario of US geopolitical strategists: foreign economic independence from the US.
Read more...The fact that Scalia argues against affirmative action comes close to serving as proof that it is sound policy, or at least less bad than the alternatives.
Read more...Why England would be better served by leaving the European Union.
Read more...More proof that the Department of Justice is working for Big Finance: it tried to discredit Bill Black’s testimony by calling him a “jihadist”.
Read more...Australian police and Dutch prosecutors do not agree with the Dutch safety board’s claim that they have proven that MH17 was brought down by a BUK missile.
Read more...Pensions & investments, in an astonishingly outspoken editorial, excoriated fund trustees for failing to perform their fiduciary duty and called for sanctions.
Read more...How sentencing “reform” will make it more difficult to prosecute white collar criminals.
Read more...A Los Angeles Times headline recapping a board meeting Monday says it all: “CalPERS shelves controversial private equity policy.”
Read more...How understanding the history of Fannie and Freddie, as well as how unnatural US mortgages are, helps explain why the fight over the future of the GSEs continues.
Read more...The election of businessman Mauricio Macri to the presidency in Argentina signals a rightward turn in the country and, perhaps, in South America more generally. Macri, the candidate of the right-wing Compromiso para el cambio (Commitment to Change) party, defeated Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli (the Peronist party candidate) in November’s runoff election, by less than 3% of the vote.
Read more...To halt the demise of the planet, you can’t rely on the same people who cause it.
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