IMF Surcharges: A Lose-Lose Policy for Global Recovery
The IMF seems unable to drop its punitive, self and “client” destructive habits.
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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?
Read more...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
Read more...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?
Read more...Blinken’s Booby Traps – How The US Propaganda Paper Released In Madrid Proposes to Go to War With Russia While Claiming to Do The Opposite
The US seems to think it is too clever by half in dealing with Russia. But some parties close to the action, like Europeans, aren’t so keen.
Read more...Right to Repair: Massachusetts Auto Measure Stalls
Automakers have mounted a legal challenge to Massachusetts auto telematics right to repair statute. Will the Biden administration and the FTC seek to apply data rules and tools to vehicle telematics data?
Read more...The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation
At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.
Read more...Senators Have Re-Introduced the Highly Unpopular EARN IT Bill That Would Scan All Online Messages
The EARN IT Act would authorize a massive new private surveillance system, rolling back important privacy and security features
Read more...Ending Drug Price Gouging: A Regulatory Framework for Pricing of Medicine Innovation
regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development.
Read more...The UK’s Post-Brexit Review of ‘Retained EU Law’ Risks Undermining Democracy
Brexit requires the Government to disentangle domestic law from EU law. The preferred plan is to hand more power to unaccountable ministers
Read more...CalPERS Continues to Grossly Misrepresent Facts and Law to Avoid Disclosing Full Transcript of Improper Board Meeting After CIO Ben Meng Quit; Will Judge Markman Buy It?
True to form, CalPERS general counsel Matt Jacobs is playing fast and loose with the law and facts. Will Judge Markman let him get away with it?
Read more...Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Now It Will Die There
A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet
Read more...Navigating Russia/Ukraine Warmongering Disinformation
Trying to pull some signal out of the considerable propaganda, um, noise, on Russia and Ukraine.
Read more...‘No More Hiding’: Sanders Says Make GOP Vote on Popular Policies
Sanders: “The American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives.”
Read more...The Saker Interviews Michael Hudson
Yves here. Michel Hudson, in this short talk with The Saker, debunks many widespread misperceptions about the dollar, the US economy, and the prospects for fundamental change. I have only a couple of teeny quibbles and a further thought. Hudson discusses private equity buying up single family homes. While that was a very big trend […]
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