How Taxpayers Subsidize AirBnB’s Cheap Prices
How you lose when AirBnB wins.
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Read more...More on Uber’s questionable prospects and the dubious defenses offered by boosters, in this case, “Freakonomics” professor Stephen Levitt.
Read more...Storied short seller Jim Chanos takes a long view of recent political and economic changes, including, of course, the Trump win.
Read more...Gaming out some likely Trump scenarios.
Read more...Deutsche came off well in a mortgage settlement with the DoJ, while Barclay’s decision to fight doesn’t look so smart.
Read more...The Monte dei Paschi domino is finally about to fall. But what does that mean in practice?
Read more...Conflicts of interest are not new to US politics; this paper shows how TARP votes tracked the stock portfolios of member of Congress.
Read more...Florida electricity customers will foot the bill to build natural gas infrastructure surplus to projected demand to benefit power company.
Read more...While Italy’s banking crisis results from business loans gone dud in a shrinking economy, some of the banks were also up to no good.
Read more...Brexit negotiators seem clueless about how to get out of their own way. Here’s why.
Read more...The whinging from entitled Brits over the fact that the EU is playing Brexit hardball is getting annoying.
Read more...Trump plans to take the Palin “Drill, baby, drill” strategy to a new level.
Read more...The pretense that even Monte dei Paschi can be bailed out privately is being abandoned. So how will Italy’s sick banks be salvaged?
Read more...In this Real News Network segment, Bill Black describes why elite banksters will have a free hand if Trump gets his appointees through. Although Black focuses here on just departed Goldmanite Gary Cohn, the Democrats ought to put up a pitched battle over another Goldman alum, Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Treasury Secretary nominee. Mnuchin is unqualified […]
Read more...EPA issues long-awaited report concluding that fracking harms drinking water. The Trump administration is likely to ignore this report.
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