…we take a step back from the churn of all the reporting we are being hit with every day about what Trump is doing. The White House is on a…

…now. Last week, Kevin Hassett, a top economic official at the White House, said they “will continue to study” options to remove Powell. I am convinced that any careful study of Fed…

…citizenship. Here is the 5th Amendment “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury,…

…had no control over corporate actions lost their jobs when the firms collapsed after wrongdoing and charges. Any Big Corp can be TBTF. “[S]imply charging a company with a crime…

…minimum – high minimum wages often approach median level in other economies). Oakland won’t educate its way out of poverty and crime. Catch 22: political scientist Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, from neighboring…

…to mention women’s unpaid labor or community activism or crime or family breakdown. All of these important things are not measured. And the attempt to correct it, natural capital, if…

…data is from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, but it’s laid out in a conveniently sortable table with a linked Google spreadsheet at this Guardian page. Steve…

Krugman’s leeches analogy today spurs me to comment: If the police department in your town is doing a bad job and the crime rate is high, the obvious solution is…

…increase the potential for, and volume of, crime. At the same time, banks’ and Big 4 firms’ lobbying for laws and regulations that reduce transparency is likely to have resulted…

…sees no difference between committing a crime—tax evasion—and consciously choosing to not employ every tax dodge conceivably available in order to barely skirt the line of legally. And he thinks…