Category Archives: Ridiculously obvious scams

Michael Hudson: Looking Forward to 2021

Micheal Hudson gives a sobering 2021 forecast.

Google Rigged Its Own Advertising Auction In Favor of Facebook for a Price (and What That Means for the So-Called Free Market)

Google fiddles with the weights and measures of commerce.

Mayberry v. KKR Is Back as Attorney General Intervention Approved, Beneficiaries’ Counsel Files Third Amended Complaint

The latest on the seemingly never-ending Kentucky Retirement Systems case, Mayberry v. KKR.

Larry Wilkerson: No Evidence of Massive Russian Hack

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says so far the anti-Russia hysteria about an alleged hack looks like the phony claims about WMD in Iraq.

4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout

Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as vaccine distribution begins.

Larry Summers’ Opposition to $2000 Covid Payments Confirms Our Classic: “Why Larry Summers Should Not Be Permitted to Run Anything More Important than a Dog Pound”

Larry Summers is at it again.

Someone Should Ask Biden Cabinet Candidate Ursula Burns If She Supports Child Labor in Africa

Ursula Burns, a candidate for Commerce Secretary, is a director of Nestlé, which defended its use of child labor before the Supreme Court.

A Tale of Two Elections: U.S. and Bolivia

US sanctimoniousness about the importance of elections respecting popular will does not apply outside our borders.

Congress to Pass $17 Billion Bailout of Airlines, to Top Off Prior Bailout

Airlines are back at the trough while more and more Americans go hungry.

An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]

The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation.

DoorDash Delivery Workers Would Need to Toil for Two Days to Buy a Single Share of Their $60 Billion Company

A look at how DoorDash exploits its workers, and how they and some legislators are seeking to change that.

Jamie Galbraith: How Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers Reinforce a Destructive, Debunked Mainstream Paradigm to Support Deficit Spending

To defend deficits, Furman and Summers relied on debunked theories, thus preserving destructive mainstream economic ideas.

Medicare Blues

Medicare is not looking good.

CalPERS Employees Beware: Don’t Fill Out Non-Confidential Survey Jiggered to Falsely Boost Executive Bonuses

Memo to CalPERS employees: If you see staff or vendors profiteering, call a lawyer. You could win a financial award and stop the abuse.

Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth on Democrats Trying to Please Too Many Money Masters at Once

The Democrats will soon decide which campaign promises will be ignored or walked back. Sandernistas, brace yourselves.