CalPERS is no longer being given the benefit of the doubt by the legislature, and can’t handle a request to ‘splain itself.
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Read more...Michael Hudson gives another wide-ranging, tour de force interview. Enjoy!
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Read more...“We want them to go back to” a normal interest rate environment.
Read more...How World-Bank-sponsored microlending produced widespread misery in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: debt collectors use violence.
Read more...If you think the officialdom is getting tough with crypto, there’s even more they can do to tighten the screws.
Read more...Bill Black traces the history of modern American financial fraud starting in this episode with the S&L Banking scandal.
Read more...You can hear the silence about the role of crypto in the Colonial Pipeline and a growing spate of ransom demands.
Read more...Some bank CEOs are telling their workers to return to the office in the next few months. If Covid stay tame, will other companies follow?
Read more...The Q&A from a Michael Hudson talk on money, debt, and economic orthodoxy.
Read more...Michael Hudson gives a long historical account of the role of debt and money as a tool for promoting prosperity and political dominance.
Read more...Why the student loan mess is even worse than you thought.
Read more...The idea of getting rid of a hopelessly captured and largely redundant bank regulator, the OCC, is gaining support.
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