How Crooked is the Oil Market?
Disturbing article. The financialization of the real economy has gone overboard, that’s about the minimum conclusion one can draw. But there is much more to it..
End bankers bonuses?
Nassim Taleb’s ‘Bauhaus (Less is More) solution for the fragility of the financial system. Not the whole solution though..
Large Income Inequality
Has a direct bearing on many aspects of the quality of life..
High-frequency trading at the cost of regular investors
Computerized high-speed trading is increasing market volatility and making it more difficult for regular investors to pick stocks, market experts say. Bring in a financial transaction tax. With high unemployment, […]
Financial market chaos
Isn’t wealth enhancing. More reasons for a financial transaction tax
Back to the 1960s
If we only had those problems..
Tax reduction for companies to jump start the economy?
Not for Cisco. First you creatively let profits appear elsewhere, lowering your overall tax burden to a few percentage points, then you ask for a tax holiday when you want […]
Calvinist people power is getting financial machismo on the run
Made in Holland. Beginning of a trend?
Should deficit cutting begin here?
General Electric, one of America’s largest corporations, doesn’t pay taxes in the US. At all. In fact, they claim a tax benefit of $3.2B…
Why isn’t anyone responsible for the greatest heist in history behind bars?
A must read. Matt Taibbi asking the question. Here is his answer. Disturbing, really disturbing…