Saturday, February 7, 2026
The 50 Biggest US Donors Gave or Pledged Nearly $28 Billion in 2021 – Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Account for $15 Billion of That Total
No, you are not paranoid if you worry about the outsized influence of the Gates Foundation.
Resist Inflation Phobia Coup
Efforts to cure inflation, at least for poorer countries, will prove to be more damaging than the disease.
Occupy the SEC to DoJ: Act on Congressional Mandate, Quit Rubber Stamping Bank Mergers
Occupy the SEC is back! The small group of lawyers, bank compliance experts, and financial services industry product specialists generated an outside reputation with its highly praised, over 300 page comment letter on Dodd Frank. As Law.com wrote: In detailing how they believe the Volcker Rule can be strengthened, Occupy the SEC has written what […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/8/2022
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New Report: Monetary Policy Without Interest Rate Hikes
A fresh report lead authored by Nathan Tankus takes on orthodoxy monetary policy ideas and provides Modern Monetary Theory solutions.
Spain’s Second Largest Lender, BBVA, Escalates Its War on Cash in Mexico
Some banks will do just about anything to try to wean their customers off using physical money, including (in the case of BBVA) charging their customers for withdrawing cash too often.
Quelle Surprise! Covid Burden Falling Hardest on Low Income Workers…But Don’t Expect Any Help
Don’t get us wrong. We really like EPI. But a new piece on Covid’s impact on low income workers has good analysis and out of date proposals.
IMF Surcharges: A Lose-Lose Policy for Global Recovery
The IMF seems unable to drop its punitive, self and “client” destructive habits.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/7/2022
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‘Keep Pushing’: Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading
Will Congress move to ban its members from trading shares of stock while they’re in office?
Michael Hudson: America’s Real Adversaries Are Its European and Other Allies
America has gone off the deep end re Ukraine. It’s pressuring allies to engage in economic self-harm, which is not a relationship-builder
News Flash: CalPERS Invents Time Machine! Not News: CalPERS Again Lies in Suit Over Illegal Secret Board Meeting and Smears Former Board Member Margaret Brown as Diversion
CalPERS digs its hole even deeper in its effort to keep parts of a board transcript secret. What dirt does it contain?
