The Execution of the CFPB: Capitalism Survives Another Attempt to Save It
A discussion of Elizabeth Warren’s naivete about the predatory nature of capitalism.
Read more...A discussion of Elizabeth Warren’s naivete about the predatory nature of capitalism.
Read more...Revealingly, Musk makes closing an agency that keeps billionaires like him from cheating ordinary citizens a top priority.
Read more...A wide-ranging talk with Jamie Galbraith on his book, Entropy Economics, which focuses on the neglect of real resources, and recent events.
Read more...On Tony West as intellectual leader and major implementer of the similar Uber narrative-driven strategy and the failed Harris campaign.
Read more...On the high odds of winding up with the Peter Principle of AI implementation in financial institutions, and what to do to prevent that.
Read more...What attack surfaces does DOGE present?
Read more...The death spiral of home insurance in climate afflicted areas has begun. The will and means to tackle underlying issues are sorely wanting
Read more...How shareholder activism, which once helped check self-serving managements, has become the province of hedge fund extortionists.
Read more...NIH funding is a case study of how the Trump wreaking ball will damage medical research and undermine US leadership in medicine.
Read more...Why “make government efficient” and cost cutting programs are close to destined to come up short.
Read more...Trump is adept at using his willingness to be wildly inconsistent to destabilize opponents. But he is unduly fond of using blunt instruments like tariffs that he can impose unilaterally, with insufficient consideration of whether they will work all that well, let alone what bad unintended effects they might generate. What Trump has done so […]
Read more...Struggles over water use and cost are set to intensify as usage outstrips supplies.
Read more...Ideas about how to reduce fire risk in Los Angeles do not appear to go far enough.
Read more...DOGE is dodgy! Who’d have thunk it? Four fast-off-the-block filings seek to bring it to heel.
Read more...A Wall Street Journal column suggests that elite conventional wisdom favors more gutting of medical and home insurance as unduly “socialized”
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