CalPERS needs to come clean about its Ben Meng mess. A pending Carlyle transaction shows it’s still in cover-up mode.
Read more...Retired General Dennis Laich gives some insight into America’s permanent war policy.
Read more...As lower and middle income Americans slide into dire straits thanks to Covid-19, political pressure is building. But are Americans capable of rebellion?
Read more...Rant, annotated.
Read more...Covid-19 is increasing inequality in educational outcomes, and that problem isn’t going away any time soon.
Read more...An examination of libertarian thinking, based on the work of one of its strong-form proponents, Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Read more...CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost does not appear to have a good grasp of the conflict-of-interest rules that apply to her role.
Read more...Democrats wake up awfully late in the game to the importance of protecting the Post Office from looting, um, privatizing. Are they too late?
Read more...Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.
Read more...CalPERS is bizarrely unable to control its bad impulses.
Read more...The 24th San Quentin inmate died Friday of COVID-19 complications, an inevitable consequence of Calironia’s misguided transfer policy.
Read more...A high level, if flawed, critique of democracy American style.
Read more...No news on the stimulus front is very very bad news.
Read more...CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng has left abruptly. If you’ve been paying attention, this isn’t a total surprise.
Read more...An inadequate second stimulus is guaranteed. The only question is “how inadequate”?
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