By issuing its new memorandum the Justice Department is tacitly admitting that its experiment in refusing to prosecute the senior bankers that led the fraud epidemics that caused our economic crisis failed.
Read more...Some extracts from Crane Brinton’s Anatomy of Revolution, considered.
Read more...Last year, the Huffington Post published the definitive take on the Congressional Black Caucus’ frequent sellouts to Wall Street, and how Maxine Waters has attempted to shut it down. Their public image as the conscience of the Congress belies a coziness with bank lobbyists and an open willingness to do their bidding. Ten CBC members […]
Read more...By Don Quijones, of Spain and Mexico. Originally published at Wolf Street Tough times for Mexico’s very richest. A couple of weeks ago, I reportedthat Carlos Slim, once the world’s richest man and the undisputed Big Boss of Slimlandia, as Mexico has come to be called, lost $7 billion in the first seven months of 2015. But […]
Read more...Senior private equity professionals at CalPERS do not understand the economics of private equity funds, raising questions about the staff’s competence.
Read more...It is beginning to dawn on the top echelon that too much inequality is not good for them.
Read more...GMOs have had a hard time in Mexico.
Read more...This post illustrates how dominant the neoliberal paradigm has become all over the world, and how it fails to acknowledge, much the less address, the well-known failings of markets, such as externalities.
Read more...Expect water wars to become more common and deadly.
Read more...A discussion of the practical and policy implications of failing to measure household labor and production.
Read more...Northern California activists opposed to the land and water use practices of the wine industry are stepping up their efforts.
Read more...Breaking out the magic markers to code Hillary and #BlackLivesMatter.
Read more...A survey of edible forest projects, techniques, and implications.
Read more...Demonstrating why Menzie Chinn stated, “The ALEC economic outlook ranking is, in my assessment, a manifestation of faith based economics.”
Read more...How the US has developed military muscle at the expense of brainpower.
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