Oppose Turkish Persecution of Academics for Peace
Please sign a petition against persecution of academics in Turkey.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Links 3/16/16
Mathew D. Rose: Chancellor Merkel Victrix
Merkel took a big setback in Sunday’s regional elections, but what do they portend?
Read more...Why a Serious Oil Rebound Is Not Coming Soon
Why the oil price recovery is still a way away.
Read more...Civilian Control of the Military is Over, Welcome to Civilian Subjugation
Civilian control of the military? Time to disabuse yourself of that quaint notion.
Read more...Links 3/15/16
How the Cutthroat Walmart Business Model Is Reshaping American Public Education
Walmart has played a huge role in promoting and funding the charter school movement and plans to expand much further.
Read more...How Much International Tax Evasion is There?
More experts are working up estimates of the magnitude of cross-border tax evasion, and the amounts involved are considerable.
Read more...Mikhail Lesin’s Corpse Press-Ganged for Infowar by Victoria Nuland
Why is the US government trying to suggest foul play in the death of Mikhail Lesin, after the hotel security, police, and medics at the time said otherwise?
Read more...Former Citi Vice Chairman Robert Rubin, Target of DoJ Investigation, is Too Big to Jail
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released a raft of documents from its 2010 investigation, including interviews with senior government officials like Alan Greenspan, Hank Paulson, and Sheila Bair, as well as other individuals deemed to be prominent like Warren Buffett and subprime short-seller Steve Eisman. It’s hard to see the justification for keeping information from […]
Read more...Mirabile Dictu: Lead Story at Bloomberg Gives a Thumbs Up to MMT
Bloomberg gives a fairminded and reasonably detailed report on MMT.
Read more...An Eyewitness Report from the Thwarted Trump Rally
A first-hand account from the aborted Trump rally.
Read more...Nicholas Shaxson: Why “National Competitiveness” is Like Ice Cream
Beware of accounting firms playing with numbers to push tax competitiveness, as in tax breaks.
Read more...Links 3/13/16
Hoisted From Comments: American Education, Then and Now
A query to readers with children in or who have very recently graduated from public school: has education stagnated, as experts suggest, or is it getting worse?
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