Factbox: What’s in Republican McCarthy’s debt-limit spending cut package? Reuters, Andy Sullivan. Items Republicans and McCarthy are pushing for in a debt-limit package. The bill would essentially pair $4.5 trillion…

…former times such debtors might have been put into a debtors’ prison and languished there for years. The process weighs assets against liabilities and allows the debts to be discharged…

…to limit state courts’ free rein lest those insignificant parts of the Constitution infringe upon the sovereign dignity (their words, not mine) of states, by which they mean the sovereign…

In These Times Grupo Santander, the global banking giant, last year took control of Sovereign Bank. The largest bank in the Euro-zone, where it is based, Santander is the world’s…

…Kennedy (states’ sovereign dignity! By which he means state-COURTS’ sovereign dignity) is interpreted in ways that are clearly violative of the Fourteenth Amendment and the original Constitution’s writ of habeas-corpus…

…not a good idea. Another is to balance the risk hating sovereign wealth funds with a US Federal risk loving sovereign wealth fund which invests in alllll risky assets driving…

…who challenged the EPA ruling or instead the sovereign downwind state (who are people only when they want to be), was going to pay the costs to reduce the pollution….

…global financial crisis and then again during the European sovereign debt crisis and the taper tantrum, but not before. Why would the response of emerging market economies to domestic fundamentals…

…of this info is not entirely correct and will need to be checked further. 1. Historically, the judiciary was not an independent branch of government. In monarchies, the sovereign typically…

…sovereign democracy intact. The greatest of civilizations are measured by the strength of their army, the complexity of the structures that they construct, yet history tends to gloss over the…