CalPERS’ CEO Marcie Frost’s Misrepresentations Regarding Her Education and Work History During and After Her Hiring
Another apparent case of employment fraud at CalPERS, this time with CEO Marcie Frost as the perp.
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73 Years After Atomic Bombing of Japan: Nuclear Threat More Immediate Than Ever
In this Real News Network interview, conducted to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the second atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki, historian Peter Kuznick reflects on how the nuclear threat is more immediate now than at any other time since the 1950s.
Read more...Wilkerson: Don’t Trust Trump, Bolton to Deliver US-North Korea Peace
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and Real News Network host Aaron Mate mix it up a bit more than usual on the topic of North Korea.
Read more...Some Notes on North Korea
Trying to get past the groupthink on the North Korea summit.
Read more...Bill Mitchell: QE Failed in Japan
A short and devastating proof that QE was a bust in Japan.
Read more...Hoisted from E-Mail: Brexit, Security, and the UK’s Coming Poodledom
Adding to the tally of how the UK will come out a loser thanks to Brexit.
Read more...Japan’s Tight Labor Market Generates Deflation…
Puzzling over Japan’s super low unemployment with continued deflation.
Read more...Ilargi: The Curious Case of Missing the Market Boom
A skeptical look at a defense of stock market valuations.
Read more...Rumors of Japan’s Imminent Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Why you should not believe media accounts that depict Japan as a basket case in the making.
Read more...Who Will Take America’s Place in Asia?
A look at America’s misguided Asia policies.
Read more...Can Europe Be Saved from Populism?
Two economists offer recommendations on how to defend Europe from an upsurge of populism. Unfortunately, their ideas give cause for pause.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Trump Promises “Fast Trains,” Japan’s Railway Stocks Soar
Trump and Abe send signals over Japan involvement in developing US high-speed rail– good news for stalled California project?
Read more...There Is No “Independent” Foreign Policy Choice for Australia
In the absence of that countervailing force, then, if we elect to turn away from the US and ANZUS then what we are most likely going to achieve is to accelerate the rise of a new imperial order.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Central Banks Quietly Backing Out of Negative Interest Rate Policies (NIRP)
Are central banks finally beating a retreat on their failed NIRP strategies?
Read more...The Global War on Cash – Lessons from History
Introduction Regular readers will be fully up to speed on the Reserve Bank of India’s botched attempt at a handbrake turn style demonetisation thanks to Jerri-Lynn Scofield’s thorough coverage (see here, here and here for more background on this sorry tale). But the Indian government’s attempt at implementing a strategy of moving an economy away from physical cash […]
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