IRS Probing $100 Billion In Potential COVID-19 Loan Fraud

Private Equity To Be Blocked From Buying Homes? Authored by Matt Stoller via BIG, Based on a vote last week, it seems very likely Congress will ban corporate ownership of most existing single family homes. "People live in homes," said Trump in January. "Not corporations." While Trump has sometimes talked a big game on constraining Wall Street, he generally hasn't followed through. In this case, though, he did. And somehow, a very corporate-friendly legislature came through as well. It's almost impossible to believe, but here's the relevant provision in the 21st Century...

Central Asia Is Escaping The 'Backyard' Label Authored by Ziaulhaq Tanin via RealClearWorld, Three decades after their independence, Central Asia is still often viewed through outdated geopolitical lenses - a region once called "Russia's backyard" and more recently as an arena of competition among Russia, China, and the West. Yet this familiar narrative no longer captures the region's strategic reality. Central Asian states are increasingly using great-power rivalry not simply to navigate external pressure, but to expand their own choices and strategic room for maneuver. This transformation is driven not by a...

The “bottom 99%” aren’t losing to markets: they’re losing to the Cantillon effect.