Get Ready for the ‘Internet Slowdown’
Sep 4, 2014 Next Wednesday, Sept. 10, if your favorite website seems to load slowly, take a closer look: You might be experiencing the Battle for the Net's "Internet Slowdown," a global day of grass-roots action.
The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: R Is for Rentier
Apr 14, 2014 Race to the bottom: A term for dog-eat-dog competition by which countries compete by cutting wage levels so as to produce in the cheapest market, not by raising wages and labor productivity.
China Unveils Comprehensive Pollution Monitoring System
Jan 27, 2014 Measures would require the country’s biggest polluters to report air emissions and wastewater discharges on a more or less continuous basis -- and make the information available to the public.
Volcker Rule Made Meaningless by Abundant Exemptions
Dec 19, 2013 The Volcker Rule has finally been approved by regulators, but with hundreds of pages of exemptions, too-big-to-fail banks have little to fear.
N.Y. Fed Moves to Seal Documents in Ex-Bank Examiner’s Suit
Oct 15, 2013 Carmen Segarra filed a lawsuit against the New York Fed and three of its employees alleging she had been wrongfully terminated last year after she determined that Goldman Sachs had insufficient conflict-of-interest policies.
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives
Sep 19, 2013 Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. Although free of government regulation, these banks are propped up by a guarantee hidden in the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act pushed through by Wall Street. The result is a perverse incentive for the financial system to self-destruct.
Are Cigarettes Cigarettes If They’re Electronic?
Aug 27, 2013 E-cigarettes, those small vaporizers that deliver nicotine to the lungs without fire and smoke, are the apparent future of tobacco, and the FDA is about to respond to the industry with a pack of regulations.
Congress Needs to Read a Book
May 29, 2013 Journalist Robert Kaiser has written a case study of the passage of Dodd-Frank, the legislation that kind of sort of took a shot at maybe re-regulating Wall Street (but not really). He tells Judy Woodruff, "It was upsetting to me as a citizen to realize how few members understood the issues they were dealing with."
Congress Still Puts Out for Wall Street
May 28, 2013 The big banks' influence in Washington has only grown in direct proportion to the harm they have caused to the nation's economy.The Hollowing Out of Government
May 5, 2013 The West, Texas, chemical and fertilizer plant where at least 15 people were killed and more than 200 injured a few weeks ago hadn’t been fully inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985.
