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.
Read more...Trump’s choices for EPA administrator–Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt– and Secretary of State– ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson–have each worked either for or on behalf of the fossil fuels industry and share a history of considerable scepticism on the subject of climate change.
Read more...The United States Supreme Court this week handed down a narrow insider trading decision this week, clarifying the scope of friends and family liability.
Read more...Nomination of Oklahoma State AG Scott Pruitt to head the EPA signals the intention to unwind Obama administration climate change policies.
Read more...An ignominious decade of UK company registration, illustrated by UK companies formed by Ian Taylor, an old friend from New Zealand
Read more...Remedies have failed to produced growth and lower indebtedness because they’re focused on protecting toxic behavior by banks in Europe’s core
Read more...The Sioux have a decent legal case against Trump Administration efforts to revive the Dakota Access pipeline.
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