Under Trump, Social Security Resumes What It Once Called ‘Clawback Cruelty’
Yet more punishing the poors, here in the form of unduly punitive clawbacks of accidental Social Security overpayments.
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Climate Change: Insuring the World of Tomorrow
Leading edge conventional wisdom on the role of insurance as climate disasters increase underestimates the severity of the problem.
Read more...“SOTU” Reactions: Business Press Turning on Trump as Tariffs Whack Markets, Look Set to Increase Inflation, Approval Falls and Even Republicans Getting Restive
Despite the Republican applause during Trump’s State of the Union speech, the business press is sounding alarms.
Read more...The GENIUS Act: Setting the Stage for a Federal Bailout When Stablecoins Become Insolvent
Why the GENIUS Act does not live up to its pretenses of making stablecoins safe, thus setting the stage for a Federal bailout.
Read more...DOGE Taketh Away From the Many as Trump Pays Off Crypto Bros With New “Strategic” Fund, Above All, Crypto Czar David Sacks
We warned that crypto was closely aligned with criminal activity. The open grift of the new “strategic” Trump fund proves that case.
Read more...With RFK Jr. in Charge, Supplement Makers See Chance To Cash In
Why dietary supplement fans should be worried about RFK, Jr.’s plan to weaken their already lax regulation.
Read more...New Suit Seeks Clawback of >$4 Billion of Fines and Insider Trading Profits from TD Bank Executives Earned While Running Decade+ Massive Money Laundering Schemes
TD Bank engaged in over a decade of criminal misconduct. A new suit seeks to make its board and executives pay.
Read more...Blackouts Are Becoming the Norm—Can the U.S. Power Grid Be Saved?
The US future of more erratic power supplies comes nearer as officials dither over what to do about a creaky grid.
Read more...EU Consumers Don’t Trust US Goods: A Look into Trump’s Trade Deficit Claims
Why trade deficits can’t always be solved by price, as in tariffs or currency manipulation.
Read more...How Climate Denial is Fueling a U.S. Homeowners Insurance Crisis and Risking a 2008-Style Financial Meltdown
A climate-change-driven insurance and eventual mortgage/housing price crisis is getting momentum. And unlike 2008, price recovery is unlikely
Read more...‘Make America Healthy Again’ by Transforming Animal Agriculture
Will RFK, Jr., tackle the many health-harming the practices around industrial animal farming?
Read more...The Execution of the CFPB: Capitalism Survives Another Attempt to Save It
A discussion of Elizabeth Warren’s naivete about the predatory nature of capitalism.
Read more...‘So Much for Lowering Costs’: Fury Over Musk’s Death Wish for CFPB That Returned Over $20 Billion to Consumers
Revealingly, Musk makes closing an agency that keeps billionaires like him from cheating ordinary citizens a top priority.
Read more...James K. Galbraith Discusses His New Book, Entropy Economics, Plus DOGE, Bitcoin and Tariffs
A wide-ranging talk with Jamie Galbraith on his book, Entropy Economics, which focuses on the neglect of real resources, and recent events.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Four – Tony West’s Calamitous Legacy at Uber and with the Kamala Harris Campaign
On Tony West as intellectual leader and major implementer of the similar Uber narrative-driven strategy and the failed Harris campaign.
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