Private equity profiteering in prisions and education demonstrates why their enthusiasm for socially responsible investing is a con.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
NY Department of Financial Services Fines Deutsche Bank Over Jeffrey Epstein Abuses; Where Are the Feds?
Deutsche Bank revealed again as being overly accommodating to clients who play fast and loose….this one Jeffrey Epstein.
Will the E-Money Boom Make the UK a Hub of Money Laundering?
Quelle suprise! E-money is facilitating financial fraud. And the UK’s FCA is unduly accommodating.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/8/2020
~ COVID problem states ~ Electoral college map shifts ~ Biden’s typefaces ~ Trump to drop out? Not what he says ~ The Great Assimilation™ (and kreplach) ~ Vote by mail ~ Robot cars ~ Unto dust shalt thou return ~ Airborne SARS-COV-2 ~ Epstein’s lead-lined bathroom ~ Cat-bee photos ~
“Warren’s Eviction Bill Is Economically and Politically Savvy”
Why Warren’s eviction bill, which calls for a one-year eviction freeze, does not go far enough to save homeowners, tenants, and businesses.
Private Equity and the Pandemic: Brace for Impact…Investing
Private equity wants investors to believe that it can do good. The damage it has done through its health care industry profiteering says otherwise.
Brexit: Running Down the Clock?
Brexit is not going much of anywhere, and it still isn’t clear if this is by accident or design.
After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy?
Teachers are again in the middle of a political fight, this one over the perceived need to reopen US schools pronto.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/7/2020
COVID-19 problem states, New York ups quarantine ~ Biden’s path to failure ~ Sanders post mortem ~ Trump’s curiously silent internal polling ~ “A pitiful, helpless giant” ~ Lincoln Project ~ Employment, housing ~ COVID treatment improves ~ Zombie artic fires ~ Reparations ~ Forms of happiness
COVID-19 ‘Please Tell Me My Life Is Worth A LITTLE Of Your Discomfort,’ Nurse Pleads
A nurse speaks from one of the Covid-19 mask battlegrounds.
Key CIA-Backed Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme
A sordid example of what happens when the CIA is willing to get in bed with just about anyone to advance what it sees as US interests.
Universities in a Mess Over Upcoming Year; Some Reopenings Meeting Fierce Resistance
Universities face an anxious and meager school year.
Time for the West to Embrace Chinese Industrial Policy, Not Eliminate it
Yves here. We’ve pointed out that the US does have an industrial policy, even if it comes out by default through which groups manage to extract the most subsidies. Favored sectors include housing, the defense-surveillance complex, financial services, higher education, oil and gas, and niche interests like sugar. So the umbrage about China (and Japan […]
