Washington Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications of Being Russian Propaganda Plants
McCarthyism lives! A site with no credentials and no evidence has smeared over 200 sites, including ours, as Russian stooges.
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Tweeting Brexit: Narrative Building and Sentiment Analysis
Twitter can be considered a novel type of elite media that enables agenda setters to communicate directly with other agenda setters and a politically active part of the public
Read more...Suspected 5th Columnist Streetwise Professor Knocks Blockchain… But Defends Elites
Why are self-styled progressive economists like the Streetwise Professor criticising Blockchain boosters but making excuses for our elites?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Come on Moody’s, Spare Us These Falsehoods: That $1.3 Trillion “Overseas Cash” Is Already in the US
Moody’s turns into tax lobbyist for its biggest corporate clients.
Read more...Bill Black: Wall Street’s Apologist-in-Chief Mansplains Regulation to Senator Warren
The New York Times’ Roger Lowenstein is so convinced of Wall Street’s and the SEC’s virtue that he can’t even be bothered to get facts right.
Read more...Validating Wikileaks Emails [Just The Facts]
Why the claim that Wikileaks e-mails were doctored looks to be false, and journalists are falling down on the job in not checking themselves
Read more...Perfect Hindsight: on Breder Suasso of NZ and elsewhere, Global Transaction Services, of Hong Kong, Georgia (US) and London, mBank and Pekao Bank SA of Poland, and Ceska Sporitelna AS of the Czech Republic
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Read more...Hoisted From E-mail: “Shock Doctrine Against CalPERS”
Why CalPERS is becoming the target of sustained media attacks.
Read more...Wells Fargo’s Management by Magical Thinking Comes Up Short in the Cover-Up Category
The more the press digs into the the sordid details of the Wells Fargo fake account scandal, the more rancid the stench.
Read more...Deutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at
Deutsche Bank’s $10Bn: the shell company back story
Read more...The Newspaper Ad Collapse: Bad News for Readers
A look at the data on the decline of newspapers.
Read more...Big Banks’ Blockchain: Boondoggle?
Ethereum’s Big Bank Blockchain consortium: trying to look behind the hype
Read more...What Can We Do to End the Isolation of Whistleblowers?
It would be sad if the answer turned out to be “nothing”!
Read more...Bill Black: Thomas Friedman’s Big Idea for Hillary – Embrace Wall Street and Deregulation
Help us, Tom Friedman is at it again…
Read more...Instant Payment Services – Payer Beware
How the New York Times does its readers a huge disservice by not telling them that so-called “instant payment services” are anything but that.
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