Brexit Makes Labour Exploitation More Likely in the UK
Negotiations on a future Brexit deal have barely started, yet EU workers across the UK are already finding themselves more vulnerable.
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Nomi Prins: A Decade of G7 Central Bank Collusion – and Counting..
Why central bank snake oil and financier-favoring interventions have done great harm to ordinary people.
Read more...How Much Is Google Willing to Gamble in Its Staredown With the EU Competition Commissioner?
Google is in a tougher spot with its EU antitrust ruling than the press has generally acknowledged. It will make an initial response today.
Read more...Another Privatization Fail: 5 Things You Don’t Know About School Lunches (but Probably Should)
School lunches: yet another area where the privatization fairy has failed to perform a miracle and cut costs while raising standards.
Read more...Trump Treasury Dept Renews Modest Real Estate Anti-Money Laundering Regs
Trump’s Treasury Dept renews and modestly extends real estate money laundering reg– which fails to address the scope of dirty money issues.
Read more...Financial Regulatory Rollback Proceeds
No new legislation is necessary for financial regulatory rollback to proceed. Enforcement priorities fail to target Wall Street.
Read more...Fiduciary Rule: Helps Not Hurts Wall Street, So Full Rescission Unlikely
WSJ says fiduciary rule helps Wall Street, so rescission unlikely. But still may be better for retail investors than previous status quo.
Read more...In First 6 Months Under Trump, Polluters Already Paying Lower Fines to EPA
EPA enforcement of federal clean air and clean water laws drops off, yielding lower fines; trend looks only likely to accelerate.
Read more...“The Changing of the Guard:” The Prescient 1980 Book That Foretold the Democrat Love Affair With Neoliberalism
How up and coming Democrats in the 1970s and 1980s decided being wannabe Republicans was a path to power.
Read more...Private Equity Flouts State Regulations by Buying Medical Practices
State regulators have ignored private equity firms buying medical practices when many states bar non-MDs from owing them.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Financial Firm Fines Are Way Down Under Trump
The latest sighting on how financial firms are getting off easy, yet have the bad taste to complain about their paltry punishments.
Read more...Wolf Richter: How Banks Hurt the Real Economy – FDIC’s Hoenig to Senate
The FDIC’s Tom Hoenig takes up the thankless task of shellacking the latest self-serving whinge from Jamie Dimon.
Read more...What the US “Health Care Reform” Debate Did Not Address
A sobering compendium of the factors responsible for the rot in the US health care system.
Read more...Payday Lending and the CFPB: Another Pending Cordray Fail
CFPB director Richard Corday’s failure to push for a payday lending rule earlier means we’ll see no rule, for the indefinite future.
Read more...Bill Black: Subprime Auto Loan Defaults on the Rise
Black discusses subprime auto lending and the failure of federal banking regulators to regulate– a problem that didn’t originate w/ Trump.
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