Analysis Shows How Surging Stock Buybacks Bolster Case for Corporate Tax Hike
The magnitude of corporate cash going to stock buybacks suggests reversing the Trump tax cuts poses little real economy risk.
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Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
The Elon Musk $48 Billion stock-option package and its implications for the EV transition
Read more...Private Equity Becomes Roach Motel as Public Pension Funds and Other Investors Borrow As Funds Remain Tied Up
Oopsie! Private equity firms are hanging on to investor money for an unseemly amount of time! What to do?
Read more...Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide
Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.
Read more...“Dollar Doomsters Have Got It All Wrong”
Why reports of the [imminent] death of the dollar are greatly exaggerated.
Read more...Israel Boosterism Keeps Israel Bonds Afloat Even as Some Top Global Investors Exit
Israel bonds, an important element of Israel’s war financing, are coming under attack.
Read more...Private Equity Seeks to Foist Companies It Can’t Sell on Employees
Oh noes! Private equity is finding it hard to find buyers for all those deals it bought when interest rates were low!
Read more...Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Seek Repayment from KKR Entities of Misappropriated $137 Million Plus Interest and Punitive Damages, Totaling $771 Million….Oh, and An Accounting Too
The Tier 3 Plaintiffs in the long-running public pension case, Kentucky Retirement Systems, are fast off their marks with a blockbuster filing.
Read more...The Arsenal of Genocide: The U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza
Naming and shaming the weapons systems and manufacturers who are profiting from the slaughter in Gaza.
Read more...Game Finally On! Judge Denies Key Motions to Dismiss in Kentucky Retirement Systems Litigation, Subjecting KKR, Blackstone, PAAMCO, and Top Financiers Henry Kravis, George Roberts, Steve Schwarzman, and Tomlinson Hill to Discovery
The much-delayed Kentucky Retirement System cases are finally moving forward, causing heartburn to some top names on Wall Street.
Read more...“Living in Netanyahu’s America” – In More Ways Than One
The economic components that have served as the dehumanizing foundation to Israel’s current “plausible” genocide share many similarities with poor Americans and migrant laborers who are treated as disposable in the US.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Rich Are Different!
A discussion of how the rich got to be that way and why their justifications for their advantaged status don’t stand up to much scrutiny.
Read more...Consumer Boycotts Can Inflict More Pain on Israel-Backing Companies than Divestiture
A look at some of the courses of action to impose costs on Israel and its backers, here, economic costs.
Read more...How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation and biodiversity loss.
Read more...China’s Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs): Ponzi Finance on Steroids
How China’s local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) became China’s most complex economic challenge.
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