What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like?
The gangster state’s bust out of Europe is set to accelerate as the EU center embraces its true nature.
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“In 2025, States Will Flip the Script on Taxes to Make the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share”
State-level activists have been building coalitions to implement higher and more extensive taxes on the wealthy. What are their prospects?
Read more...Elite College Money Woes: Wall Street Journal Notes but Underplays the Level of Negligence
A new story on the financial tsuris at even the most elite universities underplays how they’ve made poor investment choices for many years.
Read more...Will Trump Take On the Housing Cartels?
The DOJ case against RealPage for orchestrating a rental housing price-fixing cartel will tell us a lot about the economic direction of Trump 2.0.
Read more...Could Chinese Control Over Strategic Minerals Coupled with US Corruption Cripple the Sputtering US War Machine?
China tightens its grip on materials necessary for US military and its proxies as Washington turns to those who squandered American advantages to fix the problem — or profit from it.
Read more...Why Does the EU Want to Become More Like the US?
Bloc elite aim to double down on anti-labor, pro-market policies under the guise of competitiveness and productivity in order to compete with China.
Read more...The Economics of Medicine: Personal Reflections
More examples of how medicine, at least as practiced in the US, is going off the rails.
Read more...Why America Is Buying up the Premier League – And What It Means for the Future of ‘Soccer’
If Texas-based Friedkin Group’s recent deal to buy Everton goes through, 11 of the 20 Premier League clubs will be controlled or part-owned by American investors.
Read more...Private Equity Pummeled by Higher Interest Rates as Portfolio Companies and Credit Funds Struggle; Use of PIK Loans Now Recalls Late 1980s LBO Crisis
More and more private equity and private credit deals are looking over-extended. How bad might things get?
Read more...Official US Poverty Rate Declined in 2023, but More People Faced Economic Hardship
The arguably better official measure of US poverty says the poor are getting poorer.
Read more...How Responsible Is the Rental Housing Cartel for the Explosion in Homelessness?
Since collusion in pricing and vacancy hit critical mass in 2016, homelessness has soared.
Read more...The Death of the Engineer CEO: Evidence that Short-Termism and Financialization Had Become Ascendant
A look at how some turning points in the history of Corporate America, such as CEO changes of guard, explain how America hollowed itself out.
Read more...“How Does OpenAI Survive?”
Ed Zitron explains in gory detail why OpenAI looks like the mother of all bezzles.
Read more...Urgent Care or ER? With ‘One-Stop Shop,’ Hospitals Offer Both Under Same Roof
Hospitals in several states are partnering with a private equity-backed company to offer combined emergency and urgent care in a single building. But patients may not realize prices vary between the two services — often by a lot.
Read more...Pitchbook Report Attempting to Defend Private Equity Role in Healthcare Suffers from Fundamental, Fatal Analytical Flaw
A recent report from Pitchbook commits data crimes in attempting to depict private equity management of healthcare companies as benign.
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