Mark Ames: Credit Suisse Decries Russian Inequality After Playing Leading Role in Creating It
Credit Suisse criticizes Russian inequality after having profited handsomely from playing a big role in creating it.
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Wolf Richter: Private Equity in the Thick of Bricks and Mortar Retail Implosion
The distress at traditional retailers has been made much worse by private equity asset stripping rendering them fragile.
Read more...Fintech Puts Payday Lending Old Wine in New Bottles
“Fintech” provider Lyric Financial is out to take advantage of financially unsophisticated musicians. Hipness is part of the ruse.
Read more...Health Care “Reform” by Insiders Who Benefit from the Status Quo: Media Fails to Report Conflicts of Interest
Quelle surprise! The press regularly presents highly paid, well-connected health care insiders as independent voices on “reform”.
Read more...13 Questions That Expose Charter School Falsehoods
The sales pitch made by charter school boosters does not hold up to scrutiny.
Read more...Against False Arrogance of Economic Knowledge
The shortcomings of economic reasoning are well known, yet mainstream practitioners embrace and defend them.
Read more...It’s Time to Regulate the Gig Economy
Depicting the gig economy as ‘sharing favours’ creates a parallel dimension, where chores are form of leisure, with no relation to ‘work’.
Read more...Why You Can’t Have a Shorter Workweek
A recap of the numerous, internally inconsistent arguments as to why workers can’t have a shorter workweek.
Read more...The Caymans: Reputation, Rhetoric, and Reality
How the Caymans compare to other secrecy jurisdictions.
Read more...Big US Banks Make Laughable Excuses for Preserving Failed Universal Bank Model
Count on the banks to keep trotting out tired excuses for their too-big-to-faill ways.
Read more...How the Greediest Charter School Operators Loot Taxpayers Via Real Estate Deals
An interview with professor Preston Green, whose study found that the most aggressive charter school operators are using Enron-like tactics.
Read more...United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Fail
The reporting on United’s aggressive removal of Dr. David Dao has been misleading and also neglected the depth of management lapses.
Read more...Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Investigation Whitewashes Glaring Risk Management Failures
Wells’ law firm Sherman & Sterling issues a tough-sounding report on the fake accounts scandal that is really a coverup for its board.
Read more...John Michael Greer, James Howard Kunstler, Chris Martenson, Frank Morris, and Dmitry Orlov Discuss Trump, the Inequality Taboo and Other Hot Topics
A lively panel with provocative and colorful views.
Read more...Trump Can’t Save Coal
Why Trump isn’t bringing coal jobs back.
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