GOP Wants To Criminalize Exposing The Crimes Of Private Companies
Republican legislatures apparently never bother to read the Constitution, or, if they do, they certainly seem to ignore it. Restrictions on...
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Hurricanes' Devastation Could Reduce 3rd Quarter GDP by 1%
As we see Irma devastating the west coast of Florida today, Bill McBride points out a Goldman Sachs economic note that...
Big Pharma Now Using Tribal Law To Protect Their Patents
Allergan is the maker and patent holder for Restasis which is used to treat chronically dry eyes. It is a billion...
ATF Is Yet Another Rogue Federal Agency
When I was a younger guy, back in the 1980s, it was the DEA that was the rogue agency of the...
Why Are We Still Allowing Outrageous Amounts Of Opioid Prescriptions?
Haven’t we seen this all before? According to the Sacramento Bee, there were five California counties where the number of opioid...
Trump Is Corrupt And Republicans In Congress Are His Accomplices And Enablers
History will record Donald Trump as the most corrupt President since Warren Harding in the 1920s. From the petty, such as...
Equifax Hack Highlights Massive Failure Of Private Sector
Equifax admitted yesterday that it had been hacked over the period from the middle of May to July of this year...
Crazy Days At The Fed
It’s been a wild few days for the Federal Reserve. First there was the disappointing August employment report that put its...
NAFTA Renegotiations Don't Look Like A Trump Rewrite
One of the problems with the Trump era is that his and his party’s dysfunction manages to create so many daily...
Should Federal Disaster Aid Be Tied To Some Minimum Levels Of State Taxation
Let me state right off the bat that I support a clean bill for emergency relief for Harvey, Irma, and, if...