Wolf Richter: Google Sarcasm, or How I (and the Entire Industry) Make a Living
Richter describes what it’s like as a publisher to be subject to the vagaries of Google Adsense.
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5 of the Worst Examples of Biased and Distorted Media Coverage of Education in 2015
It’s not hard to see that the effort to loot, um, privatize education has an attack on teachers as a big part of its strategy…which undermines support for education.
Read more...CalPERS: Stockholm Syndrome and Cowardice on Private Equity Fee Disclosure
I have wanted to leave CalPERS alone. Really. Truly. But they keep asking for attention in the worst possible way.
Read more...Oxford City Football Club and its Onanistic Owner, Thomas Guerriero
Let’s start our latest illustration of how easily a reckless, internationally mobile crook can sidestep national regulators, with a helpful observation by Bess Levin at Dealbreaker in May 2010: Let it be known: if you are not interested in having your supervisor (circle all that apply:) send you videos of himself masturbating, texts about the […]
Read more...Pensions & Investment Editorial Savages Trustees for Failing to Perform Fiduciary Duty Over Private Equity Fees
Pensions & investments, in an astonishingly outspoken editorial, excoriated fund trustees for failing to perform their fiduciary duty and called for sanctions.
Read more...We Won a Fight Against CalPERS Over Its Plan to Ignore Private Equity Risk
A Los Angeles Times headline recapping a board meeting Monday says it all: “CalPERS shelves controversial private equity policy.”
Read more...Debunking “The Big Short”: How Michael Lewis Turned the Real Villains of the Crisis into Heroes
How Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, whether for profit or by accident, has denied the public the truth about what really causes the crisis.
Read more...The Power Of Nightmares 3: The Shadows In The Cave (BBC-2004)
Osama Bin Laden’s cave — and Plato’s.
Read more...The Power of Nightmares 2: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC-2004)
Introducing the second part of the must-see series by Adam Curtis.
Read more...The Power of Nightmares 1: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC-2004)
An Adam Curtis documentary on the similarities between the politics of neo-conservatives, and the politics of Islamist radicals.
Read more...The GXG Markets Fallout (II): Editwars and FOIA fights
GXG Markets is gone but the dirty dealings continue
Read more...The TPP and State Sovereignty: A Toothless Preamble, Weak Code of Conduct, Secret Proceedings, and a Tobacco Carve-Out That Might Not Carve Out
TPP’s ISDS chapter is far worse than you would think, given press coverage.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A DOJ Lawsuit Against Exxon, a “Slam Dunk” to Win, Would Threaten Investors and Possibly Executives
Why the Department of Justice will have a lot of ‘splaining to do if it does not file a case against Exxon.
Read more...Mussolini-Style Corporatism, aka Fascism, on the Rise in the US
While the new neoliberal economic order is not a replay of fascism,, there is a remarkable amount of inhibition in calling out the similarities where they exist.
Read more...Internet Advertising and the Publisher Conundrum: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Although most readers may not recognize it, Naked Capitalism rejects a lot of advertising. Have a look at what you are spared.
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