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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This day in history: 2013
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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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Pluralistic: Why the Fed wants to crush workers (19 Jan 2023)

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Why the Fed wants to crush workers: Fall of Rome speedrun.
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Pluralistic: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill (22 Dec 2022)

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Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill: Crashing airplanes and starving old people.
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Pluralistic: 15 Nov 2022 Tracers In the Dark

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Tracers in the Dark: Andy Greenberg's gripping true crime tale of cryptocurrency forensics.
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Pluralistic: 24 May 2022

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HSBC: "Who cares if Miami is underwater?": Scenes from the "Moral Money Summit."
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Pluralistic: 23 May 2022

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SPACs were hugely successful (for banks): But you lost your shirt.
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