Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Unemployment Claims Hit New Record: 32.9 Million State & Federal. Week 16 of U.S. Labor Market Collapse
The latest unemployment data calls into question the notion that anything more than a techical recovery is underway.
Let the Predation Begin! CFPB Rolls Back Obama-Era Payday Loan Protections
Payday loan abuses are baaack, thanks to a full bore lobbying effort.
Beneficiary Uproar Over CalPERS Fraudulent Investment Strategy Claims in E-Mail Blast
CalPERS latest beneficiary e-mail had misrepresentaions that even the toothless SEC would sanction.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/9/2020
COVID problem states ~ Festival of Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force ~ Trump gets Supreme Court respite ~ Trump and the burbs ~ COVID and multiple system failure ~ Employment situation, wholesale sales ~ Tesla sales ~ Capex ~ COVID transmission in stadiums v. marches ~ Essential workers
Big Pharma Wants to Pocket the Profits From a COVID Treatment You Already Paid For
Why Gilead’s price gouging for its Covid-19 treatment remdevisir is even more egregious than you thought.
Private Equity and the Pandemic: Brace for Impact…Investing (Part II)
Private equity profiteering in prisions and education demonstrates why their enthusiasm for socially responsible investing is a con.
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.
