September 14, 2025
Global Pension Tension: September 2010 Submitted by Leo Kolivakis on 09/14/2010 08:54 -0500
As you can see, global pension tension is heating up all around the world. This is all part of the “new normal” which basically means get ready to work longer and get a lot less during your golden years. On that cheerful note, I will get back to my vacation and enjoy this beautiful island.
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September 14, 2025
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs failed to inform 6 million soldiers and their families of an agreement enablingPrudential Financial Inc. to withhold lump-sum payments of life insurance benefits for survivors of fallen service members, according to records made public through a Freedom of Information request.
The amendment to Prudential’s contract is the first document to show how VA officials sanctioned
September 11, 2025
A Free Market Is Not Possible Without Strong Laws Against Fraud Many economists are now starting to question long-held assumptions that bubbles don’t matter, that huge amounts of leverage are good, and that the Federal Reserve has mastered monetary policy. They are starting to read Minsky and other forgotten economic theorists. And Austrian economists are gaining a wider audience. As I wrote in March 2009: T
September 11, 2025
Executives with criminal records slip through FHA crackdown, documents show By Brian Grow Center for Public Integrity Sunday, September 12, 2025
A crackdown on reckless mortgage lenders by the Federal Housing Administration has failed to root out several executives with criminal records whose firms continue to do business with the agency in violation of federal law, according to government documents, court records
September 09, 2025
Visualizing The Propaganda “Error Term” Behind The Bureau Of Labor Statistics
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/09/2025 10:31
Today’s announcement by the BLS that it decided to flat out estimate nearly a third of all initial jobless claims (courtesy of several large outliers) due to a “clerical holiday” which resulted in a major beat to estimates, caught many offguard by just how tenden
