Koch Influence Taints New Tufts-Based Think Thank: The Tentacles of the Mercatus Center
A timely reminder that despite the raging pandemic, Koch interests keep up their efforts to influence politics and academia.
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Has CalPERS Come Clean With Its Board Over Pending $500 Million Carlyle Deal, Tainted by Ownership of Carlyle Shares by Departed CIO Ben Meng?
CalPERS needs to come clean about its Ben Meng mess. A pending Carlyle transaction shows it’s still in cover-up mode.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Three: Uber’s Already Hopelessly Unprofitable Economics Take A Major Coronavirus Hit
The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse.
Read more...COVID-19 Survivors Face Lifetime of Disability
Funny how other countries are willing to acknowledge that Covid-19 can do very bad things without killing you, and not the US.
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: War and Pandemic Journalism
On the political forces that lead governments to minimize pandemic risks and costs and cheerlead faint signs of hope.
Read more...Austria Confirms OPCW Report On Skripal Faking by the British – Vienna Exposes Financial Times Lies and Cover-Up
Revealing a big hole in the official Skripal story.
Read more...Covid-19: To Clean or Not to Clean?
Cleaning vigilance was an early Covid-19 precaution. Have we gone overboard?
Read more...AOC Shellacking of Rep. Ted Yoho Shows How Little Progress Women Have Made
Why AOC’s impressive speech about Ted Yoho’s bad conduct reveals much about the standing of women in America, and not in a good way.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Idolize FDR, but Hate His Policies and the Populists That Supported Him
Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
Read more...Boeing 737 Max Ungrounding Pushed Back Again; WSJ Sources Say Early 2021
Moar bad news for the 737 Max.
Read more...Beneficiary Uproar Over CalPERS Fraudulent Investment Strategy Claims in E-Mail Blast
CalPERS latest beneficiary e-mail had misrepresentaions that even the toothless SEC would sanction.
Read more...Key CIA-Backed Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme
A sordid example of what happens when the CIA is willing to get in bed with just about anyone to advance what it sees as US interests.
Read more...Lots of Brain-Dead Misreporting About the Case-Shiller Home Price Index this Morning
No, Case-Shiller is not yet a reflection of home prices during the Pandemic. Be patient.
Read more...Newspaper Woes Intensify in Covid-19 Era: Widespread Job and Pay Cuts as Ad Revenues Fall
While you were busy worrying about coronavirus, the newspaper business took another body blow.
Read more...Board Member Margaret Brown Sues CalPERS, Board President Over Gang-Style Retaliation for Efforts to Oppose Its Incompetence
Board member Margaret Brown has finally had it with CalPERS’ dirty tricks.
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