Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud
Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud.
Read more...Category Archives: Regulations and regulators
Turbulence and Stability in Financial Markets: China in Recent Times
China is a case study of how liberalization of financial markets has never contributed to stability.
Read more...The Decline in Market Liquidity
While the Fed isn’t worried about the fall in market liquidity, experts argue that if investors make abrupt changes in their portfolios, the lack of liquidity could produce a crisis.
Read more...Clinical Trial Transparency Effort Encounters Deafening Silence in US Launch; Agnotology or Anechoic Effect?
A successful initiative in the UK to obtain more registration and publication of clinical trial data has had its US launch utterly ignored , not simply the mainstream media but also the logical suspects in the medical trade press and scholarly journals..
Read more...No, Inflation Doesn’t Erode the Burden of Debts
Inflation doesn’t reduce the burden of debt, rather it may (or may not) accompany a rise in nominal worker income.
Read more...Leading Pension Consultant PCA Shills for Private Equity Firms in CalPERS/CalSTRS Carry Fee Row
Pension consulting firm PCA tells some real howlers in trying to defend the failure of public pension funds like CalPERS to report the “carry fees” they pay.
Read more...David Sirota: Hillary Clinton Is Running Away from Her “Free Trade” Record
Yet again, HIllary Clinton tries to distance herself from her “sell out the middle class” policies, this time on “free trade”.
Read more...Bill Black: Republican Candidates Agree that the System is Rigged for the Rich
The Republican candidates for President all made shameless appeals for even more plutocracy, in particular preferential treatment for the rich.
Read more...China’s Stock Market Collapse
Those who are looking only at Greece and the crazy behaviour of the European Union may well be looking in the wrong direction to identify the next big crisis as it comes.
Read more...New York Department of Financial Services Slams Bank Fixer Promontory Group, Hitting it in Its Profits and Reputation
A decision by the New York State Department of Financial Services appears to be finally crimping the wings of this powerfully placed bank fixer. Promontory is being denied access to information that effectively locks it out of a large swathe of consulting work that is important to its business.
Read more...Republican Rank-and-File Lines Up Against Financial Regulation
Let us not kid ourselves that the Democratic party is also for the most part out to gut financial regulation.
The only reason that there is more space between Congressional Republicans and Democrats than usual is the pro-business, pro-bank “blue dog” wing of the Democratic party has gotten deservedly slaughtered in the last two Congressional elections for selling out what used to be the American middle class. So the more progressive-minded survivors are a bigger faction on a relative basis than they once were.
This Real News Network interview with Bill Black covers both a critical slice of the history of financial regulations (or more accurately, its rollback) as well as some of the current dynamics.
Read more...The Challenges of the Greek Crisis
An overview of how the Greek crisis is stressing international institutions as well as (sadly and predictably) Greece itself.
Read more...More on the Systemic Risk of Bank IT Systems
Why financial firm IT is a bigger and more imminent source of systemic risk than you might think.
Read more...Gaius Publius: One Way to Ease the Worldwide Water Crisis — End Privatization
“We have 15 years to avert a full-blown water crisis.” Why stopping privatization of water will help.
Read more...Dodd Frank’s 5th Anniversary Passes, But Should We Celebrate?
This Real News Network segment gives a detailed assessment of what Dodd Frank did and did not accomplish.
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