Bill Black: Thomas Friedman’s Big Idea for Hillary – Embrace Wall Street and Deregulation
Help us, Tom Friedman is at it again…
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How Much Do Shady Financial Practices Cost You, Exactly?
The average U.S. household loses over $100,000 to destructives activities of bankers and financiers
Read more...Study: Top Bank Execs Saw the Crisis Coming and Sold Their Company’s Shares
So much for the “whcouddanode” theory of the crisis.
Read more...Dodgy New Zealand Companies: Mapping Their Global Footprint Since 2009
New Zealand’s scam companies: a map of their global footprint
Read more...How California Targets Poor People of Color for Profit
California cities take a page from the Ferguson playbook: targeting poor minority group members people for fines, in this case traffic fines.
Read more...Louis Proyect: Misusing German History to Scare Up Votes for Hillary Clinton
Distorting German history so as not just to equate Trump to Hitler but also to equate the left with Weimar socialists.
Read more...Michael Hudson: William Goetzmann’s Money Changes Everything – A Travesty of Financial History Which Bank Lobbyists Will Applaud
Why William Goetzmann’s Money Changes Everything is unadulterated Austrian twattle.
Read more...Did the New York Times Really Need to Let Jamie Dimon Crow About the Measly Raise He Is Granting Employees?
Jamie Dimon throws JP Morgan workers some crumbs.
Read more...How Private Credit Rating Agencies Reinforce Global Economic Instability—and What We Can Do About It
A look at a fundamental point of failure in our financial system, rating agencies, and potential remedies.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Picking Up James Comey’s Pieces — What He Did, What He Should Have Done & Why
On the logic, such as it was, of FBI chief James Comey’s decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for her e-mail chicanery.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! SEC’s “Make the World Safer for Fraudsters” JOBS Act Does Little to Help Companies Raise Money
As we predicted, the JOBS Act is a flop. Here’s why.
Read more...The Cambridge Capital Controversy, or Why Microeconomics is All Wet
Why the Cambridge capital controversy is important yet almost never acknowledged: it’s too damaging to too many pet theories.
Read more...John Helmer: Armchair General Sells Australian Involvement in Ukraine….On Behalf of Arms-Maker-Funded Think Tank
An effort to enlist Australia as an ally of NATO in Ukraine reveals the reach of the military-industrial complex, as well as its methods.
Read more...Why Don’t Americans Take More Vacations? Blame It on Independence Day
Independence Day’s roots as an “Americanization” PR project to increase acceptance of immigrants who competed with native-born workers.
Read more...Why Private Equity Does Not Outperform
A new article gives a concise and readable debunking of the myth of private equity outperformance.
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