“Why Jon Stewart Should Run for President” | naked capitalism
Yves here. I don’t mean to be mean to Tom Neuburger, but this post gives the strong impression of overexposure to PMC/blue cities types. First, I don’t even remotely see…
The Presentation of Video Evidence in Court Can Hold Sway in Cases Like the Beating Death of Tyre Nichols | naked capitalism
Yves here. Some of the in-depth accounts of the George Floyd trial described the way the prosecutors put great effort into how to use the videos of his death by…
Reuters was first to report that Indian refiners pay traders in dirhams for Russian oil – Reuters News Agency
Business & FinanceEconomy 03 February 2023, 6:03 pm. 1 minute By Reuters News Agency Reuters was first to report that Indian refiners have begun paying for most of their Russian…
Iran And Russia Strengthen Military Ties With New Weapons Deals | naked capitalism
Yves here. Perhaps informed readers will deem otherwise, but the article posted below struck me as an an evenhanded account, by Western standards, of a step forward in the relationship…
The Original Sin of Economics | naked capitalism
Yves here. While this article argues that Christian theology is behind the individualism that pervades mainstream economic thought and provides useful detail, I feel compelled to weigh in on its…
Occupy the SEC Questions Unduly Generous Treatment of Disclosures by Corporate Beneficial Owners, aka Potential Tax Evaders | naked capitalism
More than 10 years after Occupy Wall Street was crushed in a Federally-coordinated 17 city paramilitary crackdown, Occupy the SEC is still going strong. The group received extensive, laudatory press…
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/15/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day In honor of the tool-using Cockatoo: White Cockatoo, Julio Enrique Monaga, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. This cockatoo attempts to be melodious…
An Inconvenient Apocalypse | naked capitalism
Yves here. As you’ll see, authors Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen justify their use of apocalypse to describe the environmental disaster we have brought upon ourselves by using the Bible…
Annual Services Inflation Rages at New Four-Decade High, Monthly Overall CPI Hottest Since June | naked capitalism
Yves here. Despite some technically-accurate effort to depict the rounding-error-level decline in CPI to 6.4% in January from 6.5% in December as easing (for instance, the Wall Street Journal’s U.S.…
CalPERS’ Refusal to Put Clearly Insolvent Long-Term Care Insurance Plan in Bankruptcy Increases Harm to Policyholders and Makes Board and Responsible Executives Liable | naked capitalism
The CalPERS long-term care fiasco continues, with the board and staff taking a course of action that increases harm to policyholders by continuing to bleed them rather than put the…