John Helmer: What is the Price of Suppressing the Truth in the Info War Against Russia?
Most people don’t think too hard about the fact that there is a price for secrecy, and when the truth is dangerous, the price is high.
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The Awful Press Coverage of Lew and Lagarde That Fueled Delusion Wednesday
By Nathan Tankus, a writer from New York City. Follow him on Twitter at @NathanTankus Part of the difficulty of writing in detail about the Greek crisis is how awful the reporting is. Headlines often say misleading or outright lies, backed up by articles that are usually somewhat less misleading but require strong parsing to […]
Read more...Bill Black: LIBOR – History’s Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget
Reporting on the Libor criminal trial in the UK ranges from lame to non-existent.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Clinton Campaign Notices the Sanders Campaign, or How to Read the Media
Unexpectedly strong poll momentum and event turnout for Bernie Sanders has the Clinton campaign starting to get concerned.
Read more...Obama in Retreat Thanks to Elizabeth Warren-Led Opposition to Plan to Appoint Another Corporate Stooge as SEC Commissioner
Elizabeth Warren has stymied the nomination of yet another corporate stooge to an important regulatory post, that of SEC commissioner, at least if the howling from Wall Street is any guide.
Read more...The Times’ Condescending Attitude Toward Bernie Sanders
We’ve been giving some attention to the Bernie Sanders campaign because it is serving the important function of moving what the media regards as acceptable political discourse to the left. And as a sign that Sanders is moving up in the world, the Grey Lady has published an oh-so-carefully dismissive profile
Read more...Sacramento Bee Reports on CalPERS’ Fee Lapses
CalPERS is in even more hot water as the influential Sacramento Bee raises its eyebrows about CalPERS’ lack of attentiveness about fees.
Read more...John Helmer: Financial Times Makes Igor Zyuzin a Hero for Standing Up to Putin
A case example of how Financial Times Moscow bureau reporters give advertorial promotion an oligarch applying to the City of London to raise debt and equity finance, buying London and country real estate; and deterring investigation of their business with British libel law firms.
Read more...Bill Black: Roger Cohen Laments his Inadequate Schadenfreude Because the Greeks Don’t Suffer Enough
Bill Black shreds a remarkably rancid anti-Greek screed.
Read more...New Brunswick: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Found a Really Soft Touch
By Richard Smith It’s high time for an update on this vast fraud story, which has, near its core, Bryan Cook and Thomas Yi, of bogus international investment bank London Capital. Here’s a synopsis of the story so far at NC, and the global press coverage that has ensued. First, there was “Is Power8, Sponsor of […]
Read more...John Helmer: Chatham House Rule — Propaganda is What Comes Out of Other People’s Mouths, and Pockets
The West is apparently worried about a propaganda gap with Russia, and the solution is truth-telling, provided by Chatham House for a price.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Questions Fed Beige Book “Rosy” Take on “Recovery”
Is the august Wall Street Journal hinting that the “recovery” has no clothes?
Read more...Bill Black: Sorkin on the Street’s Surge of Suicides – Ignoring the Obvious
Predictably, it never occurred to Andrew Ross Sorkin that being put in impossible ethical positions could be a cause of some of of Wall Street’s recent suicides.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Sinking the Sanders Campaign Beneath a Wave of Silence
Sanders can win, and that’s one of the reasons the press is going to try to sink him.
Read more...Dick Fuld Continues to Exhibit Advanced Case of Wall Street CEO Derangement Syndrome
It appears that having the financial crisis analogue to the captain of the Titanic carry on in the stereotypical super-entitled Wall Street CEO manner was too much for the tender sensibilities of CNBC.
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