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Blackstone’s Tony James Touting What Looks Like Hillary’s Scheme to Gut Social Security
Hillary’s mandatory retirement savings accounts are a twofer: a way to replace Social Security over time and enrich private equity and hedgies.
Read more...Salvation Army Slams New Zealand’s Loose Immigration Policy for Hurting Local Workers
Immigration is a hot topic in the antipodes too, for much the same reason as in the US….the impact on jobs and wage rates.
Read more...A Framework for Thinking About Bad Loans
How to determine whether or not to write down troubled loans.
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Read more...Trump, Clinton, Obama and the TPP
How much-derided “populism” has revealed some ugly truths about the TPP, leading Clinton and Obama to try to reposition themselves.
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Read more...New York Pension Regulator Shellacks State for Overpaying for Hedge Fund Underperformance, Enabling Private Equity Fee Secrecy
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Read more...How the Housing Bubble is Remaking Australia’s Class Structure
How the housing bubble is restructuring Australian society. Are the same patterns emerging in your country?
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Read more...We’re Not in a New Cold War – It’s Far Worse
Why the current tensions with Russia are as bad as in the worst periods of the Cold War.
Read more...Why Italy’s Banking Crisis is Spiraling Out of Control
Even by the standards of European kick-the-can-down-the-road exercises, measures to stave of an Italian banking crisis are really slapdash.
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How Naked Capitalism woke me up and got me back to my roots of being an activist.
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Thanks to your generous and speedy responses, we met our second target rapidly. Now on to the third, honoraria for guest writers.
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