SCOTUS Refuses To Overturn Decision To Block North Carolina Voting Restrictions
In another victory for voting rights, the Supreme Court today split 4-4 on a request from North Carolina to grant a...
Monthly Archive: August 2016
Fed Graph Of Future Fed Funds Rate Only Hurts Their Credibility
Sometimes you really have to wonder what is going on at the Fed. They recently released their projections for the Fed...
Confusing Moves Indicate Fissures In Iranian Leadership
I am not expert on Iranian internal politics but it does seem like there must be some kind of internal battle...
Industry Contaminates And Taxpayers Foot The Bill
Two unrelated items in the NY Times today show once again that taxpayers continue to have to pick up the tab...
End Of An Era For Grandstand Court At US Open
Yesterday marked the end of an era. It was actually supposed to have ended last September, but we were thankfully given...
Median Household Income Rose In 2015
It looks like 2015 was finally a good year for middle class incomes. Early estimates are that the median household income...
Trump May Be Paul Ryan's Undoing
Donald Trump may end up becoming Paul Ryan’s undoing, despite Ryan’s continued backing of Trump. A remote possibility would be that...
Virtually No One Will Ever Go To Prison For Financial Crisis Fraud
If there was any better indication that there is something seriously wrong with our economic and legal system in this country,...
EU Fight For Tax Fairness Opposed By Ireland And US
Antitrust enforcement has been a lot stronger in the EU than here in the United States over the last couple of...
TPP Is Not A Trade Deal – It's A Corporate Power Play
The Huffington Post has a long article on one particular aspect of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the huge new trade...