Rob Urie: No Exit – How Obama’s Bank Bailouts Produced Trump
Profiling the Democratic Party’s doom loop, starting with the Obama “get out of jail free” cards to financiers after the crisis.
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Private Equity Is Coming for Your 401(k)
Private equity has its greedy eyes on a huge pot of money: 401(k) funds and their big ecosystem of service providers.
Read more...The Finance Curse Is Killing Britain
A well-warranted harsh look at the high cost an overly-large and ever-more-extractive finance sector imposes on society as a whole.
Read more...‘This Is Your Money’: Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion
The affordability crisis includes the cost of being cheated, which due to the weakening of the CFPB alone is a handsome sum.
Read more...Why Futuristic, Tech-Centered ‘Smart City’ Projects Are Destined To Fail
Why the smart city idea regular falls short of its hype.
Read more...How Vulnerable is the US Electrical Grid to Winter Outages?
A look at the shaky state of the US electric grid and how it came to be in such sorry shape.
Read more...ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − Accused of Violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th Amendment Rights − Are Testing Whether the Constitution Can Survive
A law professor recaps ICE and DHS violations of the Constitution in Minnesota alone and their import in reversing Federal oversight.
Read more...Why American Life Expectancy is Falling Behind Globally, Falling Apart by State
The features of American life, policy, and economics are stalling out and even shortening life expectancy and what we can do to change it.
Read more...The US of AI: How Energy Laws and Oversight Are Being Trashed to Benefit the Broligarchy
Billionaire tech libertarians have long sought “freedom cities” free from government oversight. It increasingly looks like they’re going to get a “freedom country” instead.
Read more...3 Trump Administration Health Policy Changes That Will Worsen Care for the Elderly
One Trump rule rollback alone will kill an estimated 13,000 nursing home residents a year. Welcome to what passes for health care in the US.
Read more...1 Year Into Trump 2.0, the Social Security Administration Is in Disarray
If you are so unfortunate as to need assistance from the Social Security Administration, good luck with that.
Read more...Move Fast and Break Everything: Crypto and the Democrats
How the Democrats brought crypto back from the dead after the FTX collapse and how weak oversight harms consumers and produces systemic risk.
Read more...Fed’s Standing Repo Facility (SRF) Drops to Zero, from $75 Billion on the Last Balance Sheet as Yearend Liquidity Turmoil Dissolves
Unpacking the much-ado-about-nothing over year-end use of the Fed’s pet liquidity-providing mechanism, its standing repo facility.
Read more...Deaths by Liposuction Still Fail to Stop Ads Promising ‘Dream Body’ With Minimal Risk
Liposuction deaths at a private-equity-backed spa chain, after other liposuction deaths, fail to elicit responses like curbs on advertising.
Read more...AI and Systemic Risk
The popular press is whistling past the graveyard of AI systemic risk even as heavyweight experts warn more needs to be done.
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