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Fires, Flooding, and Climate Finance: Is there enough fast-start funding?
The World Resources Institute recently released updated estimates of the “fast-start” climate mitigation and adaption commitments rich nations made to poor countries after the Copenhagen summit. The headline figures are pretty impressive: Developed nat… Continue reading
California Threatens To Pay State Workers With IOUs As Deficit Soars
California state employees and contractors could find their paychecks replaced by IOUs this September, as legislative disputes over the state’s $19 billion deficit threaten to stall the passage of a budget.”The fiscal year began on July 1 and we haven’… Continue reading
Ending Global Poverty Isn’t About Doing Good
To end global poverty, I am wary and weary of people who want to “do good.” How about more people who want to “do smart”? How about more people who want to make smart money in the Oasis Fund, like the Abu Dhabi-based institutional investor that just pl… Continue reading
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There’s a Republican for That…
It’s too easy to dismiss John Boehner, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, David Vitter, Virginia Foxx and even Rand Paul and Sharron Angle as merely a gaggle of crackpots and misanthropes unworthy of being taken seriously. All of them have won Republican p… Continue reading
Weekly Audit: Why Elizabeth Warren Should Head New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium bloggerWith the Wall Street reform bill finally cleared through Congress, activists and intellectuals are pushing hard to make sure that this bill isn’t the last word Congress utters about Big Finance. We need deeper an… Continue reading
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HUFFPOST HILL – JULY 8TH, 2010
Politics rudely interrupted the lead-up to LeBron James’ announcement today. Culprits included Scott Brown, who may decide the fate of the DISCLOSE Act; Sharron Angle, who managed to defend BP and insult rape victims in the same news cycle; and the ent… Continue reading
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"Boiler Room" Busted For Financial Scam
A midtown “boiler room” was broken up by the FBI earlier today.Authorities claim that the finance scammers swindled elderly people out of about $12 million.More… Continue reading
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Nevada GOP Senate Candidates Accuse Each Other Of Breaking Campaign Finance Rules
AP — Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden accused her leading rival Wednesday of violating campaign finance rules, but Democrats said it’s Lowden who has a problem with bookkeeping.The dueling accusations were the latest exchanged in the fierce batt… Continue reading
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Diane Passage’s Stripper Days: Kenneth Starr’s Wife Is Former Scores’ Girl “Chase”
The heat may be on celebrity finance advisor Kenneth Starr, but his wife is also in the spotlight — again.
Diane Passage, a former stripper who now runs in socialite circles, is also named in court papers as having held “a series of ‘no-show’ jobs at sham corporations and burned through money stolen from his wealthy clients.”
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“How Does a Bill Become a Law?” Scandals Required.
Mark Green
Would we today have laws on drug safety, auto safety, campaign finance ceilings — and maybe shortly Wall Street Reform — without Sherri Finkbein, GM’s detective tailing Ralph Nader, Watergate and Goldman Sachs? Are scandals to Congress what oxygen is to life?
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