It’s 2:30 a.m. and I have just returned from five amazing hours in Dewey Square at Occupy Boston. It has been quite an interesting few weeks for the movement and encampment. About a month ago, Occupy Boston went to court to preemptively protect their rights. At first, there was a victory; a judge granted OB [...]
The Special Inspector General of the TARP has just released a report on the government’s role in saving Citigroup from failure. You can read the report here (PDF). If you are short on time, just skip down to the “Conclusions” section on p.47. While it appears that the govt. has profited by the bailout, the [...]
The Supreme Court has just released a very important decision which regards corporate financing of political advertising. Below, I’m embedding and attaching a version of the decision which I have hilighted. Given that the actual document is very long, and would take a few hours to read, I have provided this hilighted version so that [...]
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It’s 2:30 a.m. and I have just returned from five amazing hours in Dewey Square at Occupy Boston. It has been quite an interesting few weeks for the movement and encampment. About a month ago, Occupy Boston went to court to preemptively protect their rights. At first, there was a victory; a judge granted OB [...]