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Corporate debt could cause the next recession says expert: Source – CNBC (08/15/2018)

Former investment banker and author William Cohan discusses his New York Times story "The Big Dangerous Bubble in Corporate Debt" and why the debt...

Defense Inspector General to Investigate Military’s Toxic Open Burning – Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica (08/15/2018)

Defense Inspector General to Investigate Military's Toxic Open Burning The Department of Defense’s internal watchdog is launching an investigation into the military’s heavily polluting practice...

Technocrats Rule: Democracy Is OK as Long as the People Rubberstamp Our Leadership –...

Technocrats rule the world, East and West alike. We are in a very peculiar ideological and political place in which Democracy (oh sainted Democracy) is...

British Manufacturing Slumps as Bank of England Raises Interest Rates – George Pickering (08/15/2018)

On August 2nd, the Bank of England announced that its Monetary Policy Committee had unanimously voted to raise interest rates. This recent decision by...

Walmart tried to make sustainability affordable. Here’s what happened – Spicer & Hyatt (08/15/2018)

Walmart tried to make sustainability affordable. Here's what happened Can Walmart go green while maintaining its commitment to low prices? AP Photo/Tom Uhlman Andrew Spicer, University of...

In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying...

During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal to cooperate with the tech...