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Predatory lending practices: harming not helping financial recovery

This is long overdue, predatory lending has been mercilessly preying on the working poor and other financial desperates the past few years. New regulation out of the US Financial Protection Bureau is one of many critical curtailments needed on socially … Continue reading →

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FRONTLINE: ‘Being mortal’

Amid a rapidly aging global population, issues of mortality are increasingly top of mind. And as evidenced when a unanimous Supreme Court (all themselves, over age 50) struck down the criminal prohibition against assisted suicide last week in Canada, social … Continue reading →

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‘Plague of market irrationality’ created by central banks

There is no free lunch or magic fix, there is only temporary deferral, resulting in greater financial and social carnage the longer the irrational policies go on. Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International Economics Research Head Brendan Brown and Skybridge Capital Senior … Continue reading →

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