Bills Criminalizing Pipeline Protest Arise in Statehouses Nationwide
Comprehensive overview of eight state-level initiatives promoted by oil and gas industry lobbyists to criminalize pipeline protests.
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Taxcast: The #LuxLeaks Tax Deals – Still No investigation? Plus Amazon’s $0 Federal Tax Payment
This month’s Taxcast focuses on why the LuxLeaks deals are getting a free pass, the financialization of aid, and Amazon’s tax machinations.
Read more...Why a Focus on “Fake News” and Facebook Misses the Internet’s Real Problems – and Solutions
MP’s new ‘fake news’ report largely ignores other platforms like Google and YouTube, and surveillance capitalism itself – and risks sending regulation in the wrong direction.
Read more...Don’t “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards
Why the Schumer/Sanders bill on stock buybacks isn’t a very good instrument for improving labor rights and work standards.
Read more...How Energy Efficiency Delivers Green Dividends in Red and Blue States
Promoting and rewarding energy efficiency is popular even in conservative states, and is an important way to get the green ball rolling and have some near-term impact.
Read more...A Study in Professional Power: Why Do the Big 4 Accountants Survive?
How the Big 4 accountants cemented their position and why that matters.
Read more...Pelosi Advisor Proposes Non-Binding Arbitration as Road to Lowering Drug Prices
Team Dem contemplates non-binding arbitration as a fix for high drug prices. Help me.
Read more...India Forces Amazon to Choose Between Operating e-Commerce Platform and Selling Goods on that Platform
New rules just came into effect in India that force Amazon to remove products for sale through vendors in which they have an equity stake, meaning Amazon must choose between whether it wants to control the platform, or sell its products. It cannot do both.
Read more...Reining in Leveraged Lending
Yves here. This article pre-supposes that readers understand that most leveraged lending is taking place as a result of private equity, via two routes. First, private equity funds use a great deal of borrowed money when buying companies. One of the biggest sources is so-called leveraged loans, which are normally originally made by banks, but […]
Read more...Cisco Joins Other Tech Giants in Calling for a Federal Privacy Law
Cisco joins other big tech companies in calling for a federal privacy law. This is a blatant attempt to shutter what Louis Brandeis called the “laboratories of democracy” – states, such as California, that pioneer new policies to protect their citizens.
Read more...More on “Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?”
More on how CalPERS will get its pockets picked in its newfangled private equity scheme.
Read more...Bernie Sanders’ “Raise the Wage Act” Would Make Life Better for 40 Million Americans: Analysis
A new Economic Policy Institute report also debunks the myth that raising the federal minimum wage primarily helps teenagers working for spending money
Read more...Italy Guns For Glass-Steagall-Type Law to Break Up Banks, Cut Bailout Costs for Taxpayers
Italy pushes for some bold banking reforms….but how far can it get given the wobbly state of its banks and ECB hostility?
Read more...Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?
CalPERS is at it again…this time in the form of its private equity architect John Cole showing the world that he is way over his head.
Read more...The Real Reason Stock Buybacks Are a Problem
Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders propose what are actually modest restrictions on corporate stock buybacks to force their to give workers higher priority.
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