Tag: Dodd-Frank Act
Central banks have gone rogue, putting us all at risk
Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could.
The three big lessons we didn’t learn from the economic crisis
The Street’s political clout is as great as ever, which explains why the Dodd-Frank safeguards are now being watered down – clearing the way for another crisis.
Dark matter: Too-big-to-fail hibernates in opaque derivatives markets
What you’re seeing here is a dilemma that market purists never quite resolve: They say they want market transparency, and they oppose government regulation.
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Trickle down, wealth tax, and war
The central advantage to a wealth tax is that it spreads the power to spend wealth throughout the society and thereby can better the society if done in an appropriate way.
Fracking wastewater may trigger earthquakes for decades even after operations cease
"That has some very interesting and I think important consequences for how we understand the hazard posed by oilfield wastewater disposal."
How a trojan horse project to rewrite our constitution could actually happen if Trump...
It’s often said that if Trump is reelected, it’ll be the end of democracy in America. But how could Trump get reelected,...
The taint on Trump
What has our country become? A country that accepts rapists as their leaders?
550,000 acres on fire in Alaska in latest sign of the climate crisis
Alaska's fires show the footprints of climate change in multiple ways.