Mirabile Dictu: Lead Story at Bloomberg Gives a Thumbs Up to MMT
Bloomberg gives a fairminded and reasonably detailed report on MMT.
Read more...Bloomberg gives a fairminded and reasonably detailed report on MMT.
Read more...A first-hand account from the aborted Trump rally.
Read more...Mossack Fonseca and its trail of street protests: they are in it up to their thighs, and HSBC’s Stuart Gulliver has “no idea”.
Read more...Why is the Financial Times running security threat claims from FireEye, an information technology company, that FireEye can’t substantiate?
Read more...When confronted by Black Lives Matter, Sanders gave them the mike. By contrast, Clinton started temporizing and had them removed.
Read more...Krugman has really lost it.
Read more...Repeat after me: hedge funds produce little to no alpha, and contrary to what the Financial Times would have you believe, investors have known that for quite a while.
Read more...Bill Black is not happy about the revisionist history on liar’s loans. And separately, this piece is a useful exercise in the critical reading of narratives.
Read more...There are obvious similarities between the US misadventures in the Middle East and our failed intervention in Vietnam. Yet the comparison is seldom made.
Read more...Paul Krugman’s recent posts have been most peculiar. Several have looked uncomfortably like special pleading for political figures he likes, notably Hillary Clinton.
Read more...In the realm of national security, election 2016 promises to be not just a missed opportunity but a complete bust.
Read more...How the 0.1% are using philanthropy as a Trojan Horse for social engineering.
Read more...The Clinton campaign is too obviously interested in its success over that of the nation. And despite the Sanders surge, it still believes in its inevitability.
Read more...Ads for products to make skin white… and intersectionality.
Read more...Why are so many people in the soi-disant left who are not career progressives, meaning not part of the Vichy Left, so cautious about calling out Obama’s failures?
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