Greenpeace Leak Exposes Big EU-US Rifts, US Thuggishness, in TTIP “Trade” Negotiations
A leak of a major set of TTIP documents may throw a spanner in the works of a deal that is already contested in the US and EU.
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Randy Wray: Progressives Don’t Let Friends Vote Neocon
If you take a hard look at Clinton’s neocon policies, it’s far from obvious that she’s a less dangerous Presidential pick than Trump.
Read more...So Which Eurobank is Having Dollar Funding Problems?
Which Eurobank has led the ECB to tap its dollar swap line with the Fed?
Read more...Has the Time Come to Consider Criminalising Tax Avoidance?
A rare call for getting tougher with a widely practiced white collar crime, tax avoidance.
Read more...Watch Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Phil Gramm Have a Love Fest Over Repeal of Glass Steagall
Watch Bill Clinton heart financiers in 1998 and try to take it back in 2013.
Read more...Should Banks Be Worried About Apple Pay?
Will Apple Pay eat retail payment systems?
Read more...Weak Wall Street Pay Reform Proposals May Have Some Unintended Positive Effects
A long-overdue plan to reform Wall Street pay is seriously flawed but could have a positive effect in spite of itself.
Read more...Why I (Belatedly) Blew the Whistle on the SEC’s Failure to Properly Investigate Goldman Sachs
SEC whistleblower Jim Kidney gives more detail about his experience on the shallow investigation of Goldman and the SEC’s failings generally,
Read more...UK’s Osborne Exempts Members of Parliament, Other “Politically Exposed Persons” From Money Laundering Oversight
The UK exempts Members of Parliament and other Special People from money laundering controls.
Read more...The Rise of the Right Wing Populist: Blame It on the Banks
Contrary to popular belief, the shift to the right is not due to immigration as much as the financial crisis and its aftermath.
Read more...Obama Administration Trying to Throw Massive Secrecy Veil Over Past and Future Pilfering of Fannie and Freddie
Why is the government insisting that a huge stash of Fannie and Freddie records deserve state secret treatment?
Read more...Greece-Troika Train Wreck Shaping Up for July Despite IMF Leak
As hard as it seems to believe, the IMF is shaping up as a less bad actor in the continuing Greece austerity saga. Germany finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, by contrast, seems emboldened by Merkel’s fallen stature, which couldn’t come at a worse time for Greece.
Read more...Bill Black: Andrew Ross Sorkin Makes a Hash of Met Life “Too Big to Fail” Decision
Andrew Ross Sorkin yet again misinforms readers, to the benefit of Big Finance.
Read more...Five Big Banks Get Bad Grades on Living Wills, No One Gets Clean Pass; Admission That “Too Big to Fail” is Alive and Well
The practical and political consequences of no big banks getting a pass on their living wills.
Read more...Bill Black: “Liberal” Economists Cheered the New Democrats’ Deregulation of Finance
A case study illustrating how soi-disant liberal economists pushed the US to the right during the Clinton Administration.
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