Italy Banking Crisis Is Also a Huge Crime Scene
While Italy’s banking crisis results from business loans gone dud in a shrinking economy, some of the banks were also up to no good.
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The Fundamental Flaw in Muddied Brexit Thinking
Brexit negotiators seem clueless about how to get out of their own way. Here’s why.
Read more...British Press in a Tizzy that the EU Will Be Mean to the City of London in Brexit
The whinging from entitled Brits over the fact that the EU is playing Brexit hardball is getting annoying.
Read more...Trump’s Carbon-Obsessed Energy Policy and the Coming Climate Nightmare
Trump plans to take the Palin “Drill, baby, drill” strategy to a new level.
Read more...So Who Gets to Pay for Italy’s Banking Crisis?
The pretense that even Monte dei Paschi can be bailed out privately is being abandoned. So how will Italy’s sick banks be salvaged?
Read more...Bill Black: White Collar Crime Will Have a Field Day Under Trump
In this Real News Network segment, Bill Black describes why elite banksters will have a free hand if Trump gets his appointees through. Although Black focuses here on just departed Goldmanite Gary Cohn, the Democrats ought to put up a pitched battle over another Goldman alum, Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Treasury Secretary nominee. Mnuchin is unqualified […]
Read more...EPA Concludes: Fracking Harms Drinking Water
EPA issues long-awaited report concluding that fracking harms drinking water. The Trump administration is likely to ignore this report.
Read more...Trump Agenda: EPA, State Picks Aligned With Fossil Fuels Industry
Trump’s choices for EPA administrator–Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt– and Secretary of State– ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson–have each worked either for or on behalf of the fossil fuels industry and share a history of considerable scepticism on the subject of climate change.
Read more...Insider Trading: Supreme Court Decision Enables Securities Law Theater
The United States Supreme Court this week handed down a narrow insider trading decision this week, clarifying the scope of friends and family liability.
Read more...Trump EPA Pick: Scott Pruitt as EPA Head Signals Agency Will Ignore Climate Change
Nomination of Oklahoma State AG Scott Pruitt to head the EPA signals the intention to unwind Obama administration climate change policies.
Read more...GT Group’s Protean Ian Taylor in the UK: Reuters’ Special Report on 43 Bedford Street, and More
An ignominious decade of UK company registration, illustrated by UK companies formed by Ian Taylor, an old friend from New Zealand
Read more...Europe’s Crisis Was Caused More By Reckless Lending Than By Reckless Spending
Remedies have failed to produced growth and lower indebtedness because they’re focused on protecting toxic behavior by banks in Europe’s core
Read more...The Standing Rock Sioux Will Be Ready To Take a Trump Challenge to Courts
The Sioux have a decent legal case against Trump Administration efforts to revive the Dakota Access pipeline.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Four: Understanding That Unregulated Monopoly Was Always Uber’s Central Objective
Why Uber’s goal is replacing urban car service with a higher cost, less efficient operation that would extract wealth from the public.
Read more...Donald Trump’s Swamp: Meet Ten Potential Energy and Climate Cabinet Picks and the Pickers
Link-rich summary of backgrounds, connections and biases of ten possible picks for Trump’s climate and energy team, collected in one post.
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