Student Loans, Meet Greece: Extend and Pretend Bond Maturities
Shed a crocodile tear for investors in student loans: they are sometimes discomfited by short-lived downgrades when loan maturities are pushed out.
Read more...Shed a crocodile tear for investors in student loans: they are sometimes discomfited by short-lived downgrades when loan maturities are pushed out.
Read more...The standoff in Venezuela has reached a worrying juncture, with negotiations falling apart, side deals emerging and regional states rolling out new sanctions on Caracas.
Read more...Bloomberg goes to some lengths to toady to China. And his commercial motives are much more obvious than Trump’s were with Russia.
Read more...A round-up on the Iraqi parliaments resolution calling for our troops to leave, plus the idiocy of elite policy-makers, of both parties.
Read more...Team Trump keeps soldiering along with its pro-corporate agenda.
Read more...Why companies find it profitable to provide crapified customer service: this is by design, rather than reflecting incompetence.
Read more...Another KHN scoop on how the FDA has been hiding reports of bad outcomes with medical devices, in this case, ones for heart disease.
Read more...Heatlh care CEOs are a prime example of executive feather-bedding.
Read more...Private equity is moving in a big way into elder and child care services in the UK. Patients and parents beware.
Read more...Sanders commissioned a GAO report on how high student debt levels and lousy wages translate into poor economic prospects for young people.
Read more...The IMF is backing a tax reform bill in Ecuador that will enable capital flight and further austerity.
Read more...How health insurers discriminate against rural communities.
Read more...While you were distracted by impeachment theatrics, Trump creates more obstacles to keeping Social Security disability benefits
Read more...Virginia Supreme Court allows Koch influence to remain undisclosed; the decision has yet to attract much media attention.
Read more...California governor Newsom’s rejection of PG&E bankruptcy plan forces the company to present an alternative before Tuesday.
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