UN to Launch Talks on Treaty to Regulate High Seas
Talks kick off in New York on Tuesday to negotiate a UN treaty on the high seas by 2020; this would extend the existing law of the sea framework beyond each nation’s territorial waters.
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India: Demonetization Debacle
RBI annual report reaffirms demonetization had little impact on ferreting out black money; BJP majority blocks release of scathing parliamentary standing committee on finance report on the policy’s failure.
Read more...White-Collar Criminals Got Off Scot-Free After the 2008 Financial Crisis — and That Helped Fuel President Trump’s Rise
Ten years later, Trump’s rise to power is a consequence of poor governance.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Verizon Throttled Firefighters’ Data As Mendocino Wildfire Burned
Verizon shows that extortion is fundamental to its business model.
Read more...Brexit: EU Takes Hard-Nosed Stance on Financial Services “Equivalence” Deals
Is the EU playing iron fist in velvet glove on the UK’s Brexit pitch for a financial services equivalence deal?
Read more...Could Turkey Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis?
Why the currency crisis in Turkey is a due in part to the failure to take adequate corrective measures after the global financial crisis.
Read more...What Should the EU Do About the Turkish Currency Crisis?
The Turkish lira has been under significant pressure in recent weeks. What is the EU’s exposure to possible crisis in Turkey and how should the EU react?
Read more...Richard Murphy: “First, Let’s Kill All the Accountants” – On Accounting’s Systemic Failure
Why taking accounting for granted is a really bad idea.
Read more...Ten Years After the Crash, Some Progress, But Much More Remains to be Done
A reading of what has changed since the crash and what problems remain.
Read more...Why Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act Will Be Good for Shareholders
Why shareholders are getting a raw deal out of the misguided corporate fixation on “maximizing shareholder value,” and Elizabeth Warren’s new bill is therefore good for them.
Read more...Donald Trump, Gun-Runner for Hire
Not only does America love guns but the Administration really loves gun merchants.
Read more...Plastics: Don’t Microwave, or Place in the Dishwasher
American Academy of Pediatrics highlights health concerns for children from plastics, and recommends reducing use of plastics, and not microwaving them or placing them in the dishwasher.
Read more...Medicaid Officials Target Home Health Aides’ Union Dues
Another attack on union funding.
Read more...The Fracking Industry Is Cannibalizing Its Own Production, Increasing Spill Risks
Fracking companies are drilling too many wells in close proximity to one another, and when they frack the newer wells — known as child wells — those “bash” or “hit” the older wells, cannibalizing production and sometimes damaging the older well. The industry knows not how to solve this problem.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Sixteen: Is Morningstar’s Horrendously Bad Uber Analysis a Preview of Uber’s IPO Propsectus?
Why a Morningstar report on Uber’s IPO prospects does not begin to add up.
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