Monday, August 05, 2024

Pension Funds Are Hooked on Private Equity, No Matter the Risks

Is It Time For Federal Regulation Of The Tax Preparer Industry? New Insights From Legal And Empirical Developments


To understand events around the world today, one must think in terms of the class struggle.

This sentence sounds like something that could be written by a doctrinaire Marxist. But it is nonetheless true. Much of the current tension in America and in many other democracies is in fact a product of a class struggle. It’s not the kind of class struggle that Karl Marx wrote about, with workers and peasants facing off against rapacious capitalists, but it is a case of today’s ruling class facing disaffection from its working class.

Donald Trump is a symptom of a new of class warfare raging at home and abroad


Ex-PwC chief Tom Seymour rewrites history


The Luke and Tom show: Inside the undoing of PwC For the first time, the Financial Review tells the story from the perspective of the people inside PwC and the Tax Office


Pension Funds Are Hooked on Private Equity, No Matter the Risks Bloomberg


Erdogan Says Turkiye Could ‘Enter’ Israel To Help Gazans Sputnik. Erdogan has been all hat, no cattle but he might settle on a lower-risk way to assist.

 

“Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires” by David Chaffetz Asian Review of Books


Inside the Harvard Business School Ponzi SchemeNYT



China Ponders Creating a National ‘Cyberspace ID’ The Register

 

Why the left should care about privacy Current Affairs 


Why many nonprofit (wink, wink) hospitals are rolling in money WaPo


Where are the world’s millionaires and how is wealth divided globally? Al Jazeera

 

Bosses regain the upper hand in hiring FT

 

Top pilots’ union sounds alarm as regulators consider smaller crew sizes Guardian

 

The spectacular rise and surprising staying power of the George Foreman Grill The Hustle 


The Murder of Ismail Haniyeh Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post


Israel’s spies take their revenge FT


Israel Has a History of Killing Hamas Leaders Who Are Trying To Secure Ceasefires Mehdi Hasan, Zeteo


Yemen’s Houthi leader warns of severe consequences for Israel over Hamas chief’s assassination Anadolu Agency


Haniyeh killing in Iran risks dragging US into war it says it doesn’t want Al Jazeera


For Big Companies, Felony Convictions Are a Mere Footnote WSJ


WhatsApp Mutual Aid Grassroots Economic Organizing


The problem of busy work activism Chloe Humbert, Teams Human