The ‘laranja’ business, as seen in Iraqi Kurdistan
financial industry
Posted inEconomic Policy
Terms and Conditions Need Not Apply
‘Buy now, pay later,’ the latest fashion in consumer debt, is even worse than credit cards.
Posted inBooks
How High Energy Prices Emboldened Putin
Rupert Russell’s new book shows how the financialization of commodity prices worsens volatility and destabilizes geopolitics. It couldn’t be more timely.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
New Reform Bill Reinforces Authority for Postal Banking
But the only way it’s going to happen is if Postmaster General Louis DeJoy agrees to it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The SEC Must Avoid Legitimizing Carbon Offsets
These are nothing more than financial trickery that lets polluters shirk responsibility.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Another Possible Stock Trading Loophole
Members of Congress would be allowed to continue trading industry funds under the two leading stock trading ban bills in Congress.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Putin’s Invasion and the Privatization of Political Power
Rather than pressuring oligarchs to get Russia to stand down, we must look at the system that props up oligarchical power.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Real Reason Republicans Are Blocking Biden’s Fed Nominees
It has to do with Sen. Cynthia Lummis and special Wyoming-chartered depository institutions that take cryptocurrencies.
Posted inEconomic Policy
What Happened, Ms. Yellen?
How the Treasury has become the graveyard of progressive financial regulation
