“Unprecedented wave of mergers and a crippling erosion of the diversity and independence of the US media”
Critical of how U.S. uses soft power and NGOs to “brainwash local people with American values,” prior to interference particularly in LatAm and Caribbean.
The report was published ahead of Biden’s upcoming “Democracy Summit” which starts tomorrow.
It concludes that the U.S. places “too much emphasis on procedural or formal democracy at the expense of substantive democracy and its outcome.”
Rohit Chopra at the CFPB is attempting a delicate pincer movement: crack down on fintech insurgents while also addressing problems that have long plagued conventional banking.
Chopra aims to “restore relationship banking in an era of big data.”
“There isn’t going to be a big green Marshall plan”: @adam_tooze sobering look at COP26.
The consensus crystalizing around a market-led international energy transition is more ironic considering Biden’s revival of direct public investment at home.