The Payback: Why Aren’t Black Voters Rewarded by the Party That Depends on Them to Win Elections?
The Democrats don’t do much for black voters, and it’s getting a bit too obvious.
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Banks Wince as Wells Fargo Gets a Harder Than Usual Wet Noodle Lashing from the Fed
The Fed implements some new punishments at Wells Fargo, but this is weak tea when what is needed is rat poison.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Trump’s Financial Arsonists
How Trump’s financial deregulators are arranging more gimmies to banks.
Read more...Highly Experienced Physicians Leaving Medicine Due to Electronic Medical Records
More on the destructive impact of electronic medical records.
Read more...Dutch Police Plan to Take Clothes and Watches from People They Deem to be Dressed Too Well
The Dutch police, claiming to be targeting gangs, has a nasty new asset seizure strategy that sound like it is based on racial profiling.
Read more...New Dept of Justice Guidelines Will Stymie Whistleblowers
DoJ policy will give staff attorneys discretion to thwart legit claims by whistleblowers, thus allowing corporate wrongdoers to skate.
Read more...Puerto Rico’s New Power Struggle: Privatization
Puerto Rico announces plans to privatise its public utility, even though many residents still lack power 4 months after Hurricane Maria.
Read more...Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The ‘Revolving Door’
An update on one of the biggest users of DC revolving doors: health care industry executives.
Read more...CalPERS’ Fiduciary Counsel, Ashley Dunning, Lies to Board to Defend Private Equity Secrecy and Perpetuate Inadequate Supervision of Staff
Yet another example of the culture of casual lying at CalPERS and the deep-seated effort to neuter its board.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twelve: Brad Stone and Bloomberg Continue To Get the Uber Story Badly Wrong
How Brad Stone’s piece about “bad boy” Travis Kalanick is yet another effort to tell the most pro-Uber story possible at this point in time.
Read more...Is the Most Massive, Illegal Paywall in the World About to Come Down?
PACER’s days of massively overcharging and impeding legal research may be about to end.
Read more...Amazon, City Killer?
The unseemly bidding war to have the opportunity to have Amazon ruin your city moves to its finalist phase.
Read more...Draghi’s Membership in Murky G30 Financial Group Under Fire
An official EU compliant about ECB chairman Mario Draghi puts the spotlight on a shadowy influence operation.
Read more...SEC Stymies Plans to Offer Bitcoin Funds Anytime Soon
SEC staff letter raises detailed concerns about offering products based on bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to retail investors.
Read more...Does Bitcoin Have a Future?
Lambert here: Prosecution futures, as Yves has always said. By Marshall Auerback, a market analyst and Research Associate at the Levy Institute. Originally published at Alternet. Is the bitcoin craze another in a series of history’s most infamous bubbles, or is it a genuine harbinger of a new global financial architecture? In spite of recent […]
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