Nomi Prins: Trump’s Financial Arsonists
How Trump’s financial deregulators are arranging more gimmies to banks.
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Patient Dumping: A “New” Cost Savings Strategy for Hospitals
Some hospitals have put indigent patients out on the street, clad only in hospital gowns, something that was previously unthinkable.
Read more...UK Consternation Over EU Not Accommodating City of London in Brexit…Just As It Said It Would Not Do
The UK financial services is being told “no” yet again….will the message finally sink in?
Read more...The International Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump
The Trump Administration sees no value in international economic institutions or cooperation, abandoning the role of steward of the system.
Read more...UK Political Pressures Rise….Because EU Does Exactly What It Has Been Saying It Would Do on Brexit
When you think the UK has made as much of a mess of Brexit as it possibly can, it manages to do even more.
Read more...Fallout from Carillion Collapse Hits KPMG
Carillion collapse demonstrates Big Four auditing firms are not only too big to fail, they’re too big to replace.
Read more...Trump Administration Rolls Back Protections for Migratory Birds, Drawing Bipartisan Condemnation
Team Trump cuts environmental protections yet again, this time at the expense of migratory birds.
Read more...Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The ‘Revolving Door’
An update on one of the biggest users of DC revolving doors: health care industry executives.
Read more...Mastercard Pushes Biometrics, Banks Follow
Mastercard and other financial services providers are aggressively promoting biometrics. Where are the vaunted EU privacy regulators?
Read more...Rail Workers Acquitted in Trial on Deadly Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster
A jury acquitted front line workers in the horrific Lac-Mégantic “bomb train,” but the higher-ups have not been held to account.
Read more...Solar Import Tariff: Pain Without Benefit
On the not-well-thought-out solar tariff.
Read more...Another Brexit Casualty: The Channel Tunnel, aka Eurostar
Why the impact of Brexit on Eurostar will literally be a train wreck.
Read more...Draghi’s Membership in Murky G30 Financial Group Under Fire
An official EU compliant about ECB chairman Mario Draghi puts the spotlight on a shadowy influence operation.
Read more...SEC Stymies Plans to Offer Bitcoin Funds Anytime Soon
SEC staff letter raises detailed concerns about offering products based on bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to retail investors.
Read more...Does Bitcoin Have a Future?
Lambert here: Prosecution futures, as Yves has always said. By Marshall Auerback, a market analyst and Research Associate at the Levy Institute. Originally published at Alternet. Is the bitcoin craze another in a series of history’s most infamous bubbles, or is it a genuine harbinger of a new global financial architecture? In spite of recent […]
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