Pluralistic: Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors" (08 Nov 2023)

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Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors": Big gubmint wants to take away your freedom to starve to death in old age.
Announcing The Lost Cause Tour: LA, Stratford, Concord, Simsbury, Toronto, New York and Chapel Hill!
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Pluralistic: Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers (05 Oct 2023)

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Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers: When your pension fund comes for your job, your home, and your funeral.
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Pluralistic: Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism" (27 Sept 2023)

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Intuit: "Our fraud fights racism": Apparently, ripping off Black people with the Freefile scam is a form of reparations.
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Pluralistic: Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States (12 August 2023)

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Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects the people who need it least.
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Pluralistic: Fighting junk fees is "woke" (04 August 2023)

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Fighting junk fees is "woke": Visa and Mastercard want you to pay credit card swipe fees to own the libs.
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Pluralistic: Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors (20 July 2023)

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Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors: Continuation funds are a multi-billion-dollar blackmail racket.
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Pluralistic: A "secure" system can be the most dangerous of all (13 July 2023)

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A "secure" system can be the most dangerous of all: Who we secure FOR – and AGAINST – reveals our true priorities and values.
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Pluralistic: SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money (18 Mar 2023)

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SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money: Also, Silicon Valley is apparently a neighborhood in Manhattan?
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Pluralistic: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists (15 Mar 2023)

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Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists: What they think we think.
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Pluralistic: Higher interest rates increase both the monetary supply and inflation (04 Feb 2023)

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Higher interest rates increase both the monetary supply and inflation: It takes a lot of motivated reasoning to believe otherwise.
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