The Pentagon’s Budgetary War on Accountability
Why the Pentagon always has the money it needs, and a lot more too.
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SEC Conference Features Former Official Calling for Fraudsters to be Protected from Career Harm
No matter how bad you think things are at the SEC, you routinely find out that they are worse, as a recent conference revealed.
Read more...CalPERS Invests in Toll Road Even Though Those Deals Consistently Lose Money
CalPERS ventures into the looting of local populations via investing into a famous toll road-gone-bad deal that has been restructured.
Read more...Bill Black: Mankiw’s Mythical Ten Commandments of Theoclassical Economics
Examining Maniw’s core myths, um, principles, and how they are dangerously misleading.
Read more...Hedge Funds Want a Pony, Um, Permanent Capital, as More Investors Exit
Hedge funds are trying to sell a (sort of) new idea, that of permanent capital. But why on earth would anyone in their right mind buy it?
Read more...Bill Black: Greg Mankiw’s Unprincipled Economics Indoctrination
Exposing Greg Mankiw’s basic economics textbook as an exercise in dogma.
Read more...Democratic Establishment’s Thuggish Power Grab at Nevada Convention
The Democratic party establishment shows its true colors in Nevada.
Read more...Ian Fraser: Just How Corrupt is The UK?
Never mind the “fantastically corrupt” Afghanistan and Nigeria. What about the UK?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions
Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Corporate Convention: “Comcast Presents … The Democratic Party. Welcome to Philadelphia.”
The Democratic party convention will put its big-money soul on tawdry display.
Read more...Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Put End to Mandatory Arbitration for Consumer Loans, Credit Cards
Ding, dong, the witch of mandatory arbitration is (on its way to being) dead.
Read more...Bill Black: Free Markets Mean Zero Economic Profit – or a 99% Profit Markup
How “free market” ideology produces companies like Valeant, which Warren Buffett’s partner Charlie Munger called a “sewer,” “corrupt,” and “criminal.”
Read more...Gaius Publius: Politico – Less than 1% of the Hillary Victory Fund Benefited State Parties
The Hillary Victory Fund exposed as a campaign-finance-law-breaking money laundering operation.
Read more...Andrew Ross Sorkin Helps Obama Airbrush His “Economic Legacy” with Obsequious Exclusive Interview in the New York Times
Obama’s “economic legacy” contextualized.
Read more...Greg Palast on How the New York and US Elections are Being Stolen
Greg Palast describe the rationale and methods for deep-sixing registered voters.
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