Tag: hedge funds

The Duke Economics Department: Serving the Real Constituency of New Gilded Age Higher Education, Hedge Fund Managers

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 10, 2017

What’s truly important in higher education is for student journalists to be barred from classrooms so that rich people can feel comfortable saying whatever they want without accountability. Or at least that’s how it is at Duke. For Duke University students interested in learning about hedge funds and the economic forces that drive them, Economics […]

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Who Pays for the Failure of Hedge Funds to Deliver?

By Erik Loomis

On January 3, 2017

The working class of course. In this case, the pensions of Teamsters’ members: Like many pension plans, the Teamsters fund was hurt badly by the steep market decline of 2008. Those overseeing th

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Hedge Funds and Charter Schools

By Erik Loomis

On May 11, 2016

This is an excellent report on how hedge fund managers have been behind the charter school movement since the very beginning. Now they are buying school board seats by overwhelming cities with campaig

Privatizing Africa

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 13, 2015

The rapid privatization of land is Africa is throwing millions of poor farmers off their land. This is thanks to the African middle class, western companies, and large Chinese investors. A second set of culprits, also flying underneath the media radar and unbeknownst to many land rights campaigners in the West, are actually Western-based companies. […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,000 · January 23, 2022
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,000 · January 23, 2022
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,000 · January 23, 2022
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,000 · January 23, 2022