Republicans to Use CRA to Roll Back ‘Midnight’ Rules and Benefit Oil Companies
Next week, Congress will begin to use the Congressional Review Act to roll back recently-issued federal rules; oil and other companies will benefit.
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Bill Black: Not 4 Sale – Why the Corrupt, Worker-Hating New Democrats Must Be Purged
Why the corporate and finance funded, labor-loathing New Democrats have been a disaster for the party and America and need to go.
Read more...America’s Coming Water Affordability Crisis
A symptom of pressure on water quality and supply: over 40 million American citizens may be unable to afford water in the next five years.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Judge Reveals Shady Side of Crushed Aetna-Humana Merger, Banks to Lick their Wounds, Aetna to Get Pummeled
Yesterday, a federal judge blocked Aetna’s $34-billion acquisition of Humanam, citing concerns that their combined pricing power would raise costs to consumers.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Mnuchin as Sears Director Oversaw Asset Stripping, Underfunding of Pension; Faces Conflict as Treasury Secretary
Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin only got his hair messed up a bit at his Senate confirmation hearing.
Read more...Compensating the “Losers” of Globalization
There is little agreement on how government should respond to the challenge posed by “losers” from globalization.
Read more...Ending Too Big to Fail
Yves here. Remember the explosion of press coverage last year when incoming Minneapolis Fed member and former Goldmanite and Treasury official Neel Kashkari announced his intent to develop a plan to end the “too big to fail” problem. He not only was going to devote Minneapolis Fed researchers to his program, but solicited broad based […]
Read more...How CalPERS’ Fiduciary Counsels Sabotage Good Board Governance and Quash Dissent
How CalPERS went from being a leader in good governance to being a train wreck, and now fixates on stymieing itsl one effective board member.
Read more...North Dakota Governor: DAPL Likely to Get Easement Once Trump Is President
Trump is likely to give DAPL, the Dakota Access Pipeline, an easement despite Army Corps of Engineers’ objections.
Read more...How To Balance Sovereignty and Integration in a Voluntary EU
Why is the EU project in trouble and what might be done to fix it?
Read more...Debate Over Health Care Yet Again Omits Elephants In the Room: Excessive Costs Due to Terrible Incentives and Pricing, Administrative Costs, Pharma Looting
Health care in America is broken and the press and pundits seem desperate to paper over how bad it is.
Read more...The Destructive Power of Preemption: How Congress Can Use It to Bar State Action on Climate
How federal preemption of environmental rules can stymie the plans of California and other states to ignore Trump’s policies.
Read more...More Brexit Delusion: City Issues Wish List That the EU Already Rejected
When you’d thought the British had reached the limits of outlandishness on the Brexit front, they manage to outdo themselves.
Read more...House Passes Koch Brothers-Backed REINS Act that Weakens Gov’t Regulatory Agencies
How the stealthy REINS Act would hamstring all Federal regulators.
Read more...How Do Americans Get Rich? (And Stay Rich?)
A deep dive into the sources of rich Americans’ wealth.
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