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The author argues for the widespread use of market values when assessing bank conditions, prompt corrective action by regulators, limiting deposit insurance protection to ensure market discipline, and shifting the political equilibrium.
It should perhaps come as little surprise that when it comes to protecting the right to pay in cash, the UK government prioritises freedom of choice for businesses (to reject cash) over freedom of choice for citizens (to use it).
Republicans announced the veto override effort just hours after the elementary school shooting in nearby Nashville.
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By Deborah James / Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Executive Summary This report shows how Big Tech companies are working to constrain the ability of EU democratic bodies to regulate their activities in the public interest through “trade” agreements, which are binding and permanent. Digitalization is the defining economic transformation of our time. […]
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March 18 DC peace march almost completely blacked out in US corporate media.
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By Greg Palast / CounterPunch Last week, a Texas pol, Ben Barnes, confessed that he was personally involved—and therefore an eyewitness to–high treason: The Ronald Reagan campaign’s successful secret deal with the Iranian government to hold 52 Americans hostages so that Reagan could defeat Jimmy Carter. Reagan’s skanky deal worked. In 1980, Carter’s failure to […]
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The ongoing effort to investigate and ban TikTok is not about our privacy, but about fueling more aggression against China.
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How much is "information sharing" between mega property management companies driving the rise in housing costs?
- by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
On Tuesday this week, just 24 hours before a meeting of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), committee members received a motion tabled by the leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, proposing the withdrawal of Labour’s endorsement of the Member of Parliament for Islington North, and Starmer’s predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn. The tabling of the motion […]
Writer Dionne Ford dives deep into her ancestry and confronts the complexities of being a Black woman in America with the blood of both the enslaved and the enslaver.
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