New Studies: Do ‘Competitive’ Corporate Tax Cuts Boost Growth?
A new study devastates the widely-touted claim that corporate tax cuts promote growth.
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How CalPERS Lies to Itself and Others to Justify Investing in Private Equity
CalPERS really seems to have convinced itself that the likes of KKR and Blackstone are “partners” in more than just the legal sense. Oops.
Read more...Banks to Have Fed Dividends Clipped to Pay to Fill Potholes; JPMorgan, Bank of America the Biggest Losers
Banks suffer a symbolically important loss as Congress plans to whack their dividends from the Fed.
Read more...America to Working Class Whites: Drop Dead!
On the fallen status of lower-class whites, and the poor prospects for many of their betters.
Read more...“Failed: What the ‘Experts’ Got Wrong about the Global Economy”
An excerpt from CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot’s important new book, Failed.
Read more...Tom Ferguson: Who is Supporting Trump?
Our favorite curmudgeon, political scientist Tom Ferguson, appeared on Real News Network to tease some signal out of the considerable noise on Donald Trump.
Read more...Vulture Capitalists Are the Real Winners of Argentina’s Elections
How Argentina’s former president Kirchner’s loss is vulture fund chief Paul Singer’s big win.
Read more...The TPP And Terri Sewell, The Only Democrat Elected To Federal Office In Alabama
Democrats who voted for TPP Fast Track were not forced to do so by their conservative districts.
Read more...The Power Of Nightmares 3: The Shadows In The Cave (BBC-2004)
Osama Bin Laden’s cave — and Plato’s.
Read more...What Are the Only 3 States That Score Higher Than a D+ in the Corruption Index?
The highest grade (the least corruption) goes to Alaska: C.
Read more...The Power of Nightmares 2: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC-2004)
Introducing the second part of the must-see series by Adam Curtis.
Read more...From G20 to Labour20
Labour20 set forth important goals not just for labor but for the economy and broader society. But does organized labor have the credibility to promote these aims?
Read more...The Power of Nightmares 1: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC-2004)
An Adam Curtis documentary on the similarities between the politics of neo-conservatives, and the politics of Islamist radicals.
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: The Ordeal of Angela Merkel
A chronicle of Angela Merkel’s rise and a catalogue of recent political mistakes which are putting her chancellorship at risk.
Read more...John Helmer: The Classic Rules for Combatting Turkish Aggression
Russia’s commitment to blocking Turkish expansion is being tested. Will Putin step up or make a strategic retreat?
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