Proving how deep intransigence runs among public pension fund staff, PennPSERS trustee Katie Muth is suing to find out what the fund owns.
Read more...Yet another way hapless citizens get hit with unwarranted and abusive medical bills.
Read more...A worrisome case study of helpless and inaction in New York City tenants.
Read more...How media oligarchs have been moving French voters, and with them, mainstream parties, to the right.
Read more...The U.S. botches its India diplomacy as it fails to comprehend Delhi’s understanding of the new realities of the emerging multipolar world.
Read more...Gang of three Democratic senators thwart confirmation of David Weil to key Labor Department post.
Read more...A comment on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule “Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization”, aka stock buybacks.
Read more...You can’t quite say the IMF is the root of all evil. But it sure made a lot of bad situations worse.
Read more...Michael Hudson continues his political and financial analysis of the war in Ukraine.
Read more...Attempting to clear some of the fog around the Russia counter-sanction of requiring rouble payment for gas by “unfriendly nations.”
Read more...For years, the U.S. and U.K. governments embraced the concept of nudges to change social behavior. Then came Covid-19.
Read more...More on the “soon to be with us” sanctions-induced diesel shortage, along with EV battery woes.
Read more...Sanders takes on the supposed US competitiveness-boosting COMPETES Act as corporate grifting.
Read more...How the growth of a billionaire class is the result of policy choices.
Read more...The IEA last week proposed 10-point plan to curb oil use. Alas, it’s unlikely that current U.S. regulators and political leaders. will provide any more than lip service to these and other long overdue measures.
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