Jim Chanos: The Golden Age of Fraud in Finance
Famed short seller Jim Chanos discusses the ever-rising role of fraud in the US financial system and his views of China.
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The Government Makes a Profit on Defaulted Student Loans
The Federal government’s unheard of profits on defaulted student loans confirms that the scheme is predatory. And defaults are set to rise.
Read more...Public Pension Funding Average Now Below 50%, Yet Beneficiaries and Press Stay Mum
That light at the end of the public pension fund tunnel is the headlight of the underfunding train bearing down on them.
Read more...‘Absolute Hypocrisy’: GOP Unveils Bill to Make Trump Tax Cuts Permanent While Howling About Debt
The point of the debt ceiling melodrama is to give fiscal hawks another whack at budget-cutting. Tax increase are therefore off the table.
Read more...CalPERS’ Refusal to Put Clearly Insolvent Long-Term Care Insurance Plan in Bankruptcy Increases Harm to Policyholders and Makes Board and Responsible Executives Liable
CalPERS continues to behave badly.
Read more...ChatGPT Is a Data Privacy Nightmare. If You’ve Ever Posted Online, You Ought To Be Concerned
More reasons to regard ChatGPT as CheatGPT.
Read more...Evidence-Based Medicine for the Modern Age of Artificial Intelligence
Evidence-Based Medicine remains a subfield of Big Pharma marketing and conventional neoliberal economics.
Read more...He’s B-a-a-c-k! Fauci, the Gangster Who Couldn’t Jab Straight Bids for Control of the Next Generation of (Nasal) Vaccines
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Read more...“Yes, Britain Is Corrupt. But It’s a Lot Worse Than You Think”
The press talked up the UK’s drop in the Corruption Perception Index. But the UK has long been an engine of corrupt conduct around the world.
Read more...AI = BS
Don’t. Don’t. Don’t believe the hype.
Read more...Did Your Health Plan Rip Off Medicare?
KHN has released details of 90 previously secret government audits that reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors
Read more...Twitter and Google Behaving Badly
Examples of Google becoming more obvious about manipulating search results.
Read more...Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits
Following complaints, Oregon’s Public Utility Commission is investigating NW Natural’s meter testing program and billing practices.
Read more...SBF’s Substack Shows He Will Always Be in Our Face
Sadly, even prison is not likely to rid us of this turbulent financier, SBF.
Read more...‘Industry’ and the State (Twitter Files 11 & 12)
A wealth of new detail about the Twitter-government partnership.
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