Nomi Prins: Hillary Clinton Will Continue the Big Bank Protection Racket
Hillary Clinton has apparently never met a well-heeled banker she didn’t like….
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“Hilariously Corrupt”: Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt Attacks Elizabeth Warren for Criticizing SEC Inaction; He Did Just That in 2015
Apparently it’s OK for former chairmen like Arthur Levitt to criticize the SEC, but not senators, and above all not Elizabeth Warren.
Read more...Act on Air Pollution, the Silent Killer
Air pollution is a serious problem in Malaysia and other Asian countries, yet official recognition and responses are sorely lagging.
Read more...CFPB’s Project Catalyst Relies on Financial Innovation Fairy to Rescue the Underbanked
The CFPB’s Project Catalyst relies on the financial innovation fairy to produce consumer-friendly financial products rather than regulation.
Read more...Dean Baker: Rigged – How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
Dean Baker explains how market structure, which results from policy choices, legislation, and regulation, serve the rich first and foremost.
Read more...Another Huge Brexit Spanner in the Works: UK Faces Customs Train Wreck With Need for IT Upgrade
The UK faces a customs nightmare as IT systems needed to handle the new volumes and requirements are almost certain not to be ready on time.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Wells Fargo Hasn’t Changed One Iota – Aggressive Cross Selling Baked In
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Read more...China’s Insanely Leveraged Housing Market Will Enter Its Secular Bear Market In 2017
Why China’s fabulously leveraged housing market may finally be on the verge of a long-anticipated implosion.
Read more...How 401(k) Plans Stack the Deck to Get Chump Investors to Sign Up for Doggy Sponsor Funds
Yet more reasons to be leery of 401 (k) plans.
Read more...Bill Black: Bank of England Says Authorities Mustn’t Fine Banks Because Groaf
The Bank of England offers an easily-debunked defense of predatory and fraudulent lending.
Read more...Trump, Clinton, Obama and the TPP
How much-derided “populism” has revealed some ugly truths about the TPP, leading Clinton and Obama to try to reposition themselves.
Read more...New York Pension Regulator Shellacks State for Overpaying for Hedge Fund Underperformance, Enabling Private Equity Fee Secrecy
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Read more...Perfect Hindsight: on Breder Suasso of NZ and elsewhere, Global Transaction Services, of Hong Kong, Georgia (US) and London, mBank and Pekao Bank SA of Poland, and Ceska Sporitelna AS of the Czech Republic
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Read more...Why Italy’s Banking Crisis is Spiraling Out of Control
Even by the standards of European kick-the-can-down-the-road exercises, measures to stave of an Italian banking crisis are really slapdash.
Read more...How Wells Fargo Exemplifies the Drivers of Big Corporate Fraud
The Wells Fargo fake account scandal illustrates why corporate executives conveniently ignore or even engage in fraud.
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