Is the shortest road to cleaning up bad corporate governance in the EU through New York courts? Bayer is one of a set of test cases.
Read more...Political scientist Tom Ferguson juxtaposes the factions around Biden with how Roosevelt eventually stared down banks and corporatists in the second phase of the New Deal
Read more...First demonstrations across the US, now a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos’ house. Is this more #Resistance or a system-breaking resistance?
Read more...New data on how many lost their health insurance, which often means health care, due to Covid. And the numbers are not getting better soon.
Read more...Why you should not trust the Gates Foundation.
Read more...Another dive, in both senses of the word, into the implications of libertarian ideology.
Read more...The odd idea of replacing generals with AI is getting a hearing.
Read more...The World Bank is trying to rebrand a failed public private partnership scheme as “blended finance”. Developing countries, beware.
Read more...CalPERS made damaging statements to justify withholding information about private loans. That suggestswhat it was hiding is even worse.
Read more...A timely reminder that despite the raging pandemic, Koch interests keep up their efforts to influence politics and academia.
Read more...Failed CEOs succeed in looting their companies on the verge of bankruptcy filings.
Read more...How consolidation in dairy processing has led to overproduction of milk and dumping.
Read more...Local economic data and election results in Weimar Germany shows that more acute austerity led to more Nazi support.
Read more...Some good work on monopoly is marred by the bizarre inclusion of Uber. Its predatory pricing is the result of deep pockets and ideology, not potential market power.
Read more...Renters and landlords need to come to terms in the Covid-19 new normal. But it’s not shaping up to be pretty.
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