How Monsanto Solicited Academics to Bolster Their Pro-GMO Propaganda — Using Taxpayer Dollars
Contrary to what most consumers believe, the pro-GMO research that was presented as independent was paid for by Monsanto.
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Exclusive: Are the SEC’s Mary Jo White and Her Husband Teaming Up to Gut Corporate Disclosure and Make It Harder to Fight Fraud?
The heart of the SEC’s mission is disclosure, providing enough information to investors so they can make reasonable choices about stock and bond offerings. Without disclosure you don’t really have an SEC, and you put investors – and potentially the whole economy – at risk. But the commission is striving to hit that self-destruct button, by allowing new rules that would make it much easier for companies to hide their activities. And it’s highly likely that this reaches all the way to the office of SEC Chair Mary Jo White.
Read more...Jeff Connaughton: On to Iowa and New Hampshire
Former lobbyist, White House and Senate staffer Jeff Connaughton explains how Naked Capitalism had an impact after the crisis and continues to do so today.
Read more...Occupy the SEC Condemns Securities Lawyers for Bullying the SEC, Demanding Preferential Treatment for Clients
A video shows how the very premise of the SEC’s role, and that of regulations generally, is under intense assault by the private bar.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: Should the US Federal Government Invest $4-$6 Trillion Per Year on Climate Protection? (Part 2 of 2)
Further discussion of why the excuses to do nothing or too little on the climate change front don’t hold up to serious scrutiny.
Read more...Former Chief Investment Officer Slams CalPERS, CalSTRS, Other Funds for Doing Nothing When Told Blackstone Was Cheating Them
More on the appalling dereliction of duty of pension fund officials when they failed to act after Blackstone told them it was cheating them.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: Should the US Federal Government Invest $4-$6 Trillion Per Year on Climate Protection? (Part 1 of 2)
Why the excuses to do nothing or too little on the climate change front don’t hold up to serious scrutiny.
Read more...After NC, Media Coverage of CalPERS and CalSTRS Private Equity Fee Lapses, California Treasurer John Chiang Calls for Legislation
California Treasurer John Chiang takes a big step forward by demanding legislation for much greater disclosure of private equity fees and costs
Read more...The UK’s Money Laundering Mess (I)
The Billion Dollar Moldova Bank Scam: gateway to the UK’s money laundering mess
Read more...Payday Lenders Pay Off the System So They Can Keep Ripping Off Borrowers
Paying a visit to payday lenders at one of their conferences.
Read more...The Financial Sector is Too Big
Has the financial sector become too large, absorbing too many resources, and enhancing instabilities?
Read more...Clinton Outdoes Tsipras in Kolotoumbas with Her Reversals on TPP, Bank Regulations
The big problem with Hillary is it is hard to believe she stands for anything other than her desire to exercise power. Her latest bout of opportunism only reinforces that notion.
Read more...SEC Gives Blackstone $39 Million Wet Noodle Lashing Over Private Equity Abuses
The SEC is up to its usual kabuki, of pretending that a mere cost-of-doing business punishment for a firm that has engaged in widespread abuses amounts to a serious effort at enforcement. The gap between misconduct and SEC action is particularly striking in the case of private equity. In May 2014, former SEC examination chief […]
Read more...Privatization, Charters & High-Stakes Tests: Arne Duncan’s Education Legacy
The remaking of public education continue, and not in a good way. A Real News Network interview helps keep tab on this struggle over America’s future.
Read more...The Billion-Dollar Moldovan Bank Scam, Scottish Limited Partnerships, and the UK’s Anti-Money-Laundering Mess
The BBC follows up on the billion-dollar Moldovan bank scam, and Naked Capitalism kicks off a new series on money laundering in the UK
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