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Jan D. Weir is a lawyer who has advised international corporations, banks and accounting firms. He has taught business law at the University of Toronto, and is the co-author of The Critical Concepts of Canadian Business Law (6e) Pearson. Follow him for updates on laws that affect inequality @JanWeirLaw and at and
Medium.com.
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Friday, September 11, 2020
How Trump Hurts Workers and Wins Their Votes A review of the most recent way Trump's deregulation policies for Wall Street will harm the salaried classes by a mechanism they will likely never realize.
Friday, September 11, 2020How Trump Hurts Workers and Wins Their Votes A review of the most recent way Trump's deregulation policies for Wall Street will harm the salaried classes by a mechanism they will likely never realize.
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Thursday, June 18, 2020
Banking Apartheid, Debt Slavery, and Financial Lynching: Why People Riot Most Black People Live in an economic pressure cooker worrying daily about how to pay the rent for their families to avoid the increasing homelessness. That's no accident: The bankers and real estate agents have successfully subverted any and all government programs to help the Black community achieve home ownership, and the government regulators assist by turning a blind eye to their tactics.
Thursday, June 18, 2020Banking Apartheid, Debt Slavery, and Financial Lynching: Why People Riot Most Black People Live in an economic pressure cooker worrying daily about how to pay the rent for their families to avoid the increasing homelessness. That's no accident: The bankers and real estate agents have successfully subverted any and all government programs to help the Black community achieve home ownership, and the government regulators assist by turning a blind eye to their tactics.
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Friday, May 29, 2020
More Reasons Why the COVID Crisis Will Be Worse Than the 1930s Well before the pandemic-crisis struck, analysts were sounding warnings that corporate debt had reached such dangerously high levels that a normal downturn in the business cycle would see many corporate bankruptcies. But the analysts did not count on the rescue by the COVID-19 stimulus package. Now, just as in 2008, the wealthy are going to cream off most of the stimulus package.
Series: Covid Crisis (1 Articles, 1273 views)
Friday, May 29, 2020More Reasons Why the COVID Crisis Will Be Worse Than the 1930s Well before the pandemic-crisis struck, analysts were sounding warnings that corporate debt had reached such dangerously high levels that a normal downturn in the business cycle would see many corporate bankruptcies. But the analysts did not count on the rescue by the COVID-19 stimulus package. Now, just as in 2008, the wealthy are going to cream off most of the stimulus package.
Series: Covid Crisis (1 Articles, 1273 views)
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Thursday, May 21, 2020
Will Biden Be Better? We Now Have an Indication Even though both Clinton and Obama had promised to end the increasing economic inequality that had begun in the 1970s, they both failed in that regard paving the way for Trump. They relied on economic advisers whose policies always ensured the preservation of the upward transfer of wealth. One of these economist advisers counselled both Clinton and Obama with serious harm to the working class. Amazingly, and despite the well d
Thursday, May 21, 2020Will Biden Be Better? We Now Have an Indication Even though both Clinton and Obama had promised to end the increasing economic inequality that had begun in the 1970s, they both failed in that regard paving the way for Trump. They relied on economic advisers whose policies always ensured the preservation of the upward transfer of wealth. One of these economist advisers counselled both Clinton and Obama with serious harm to the working class. Amazingly, and despite the well d
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Here's Why the Covid Crisis Will Be Worse Than the 1930s We are not experiencing one crisis caused by the Corona virus calamity, but four. The other three are hidden under it. They remain largely undetected in the mainstream media. They are about to surface for, as that intrepid investor Warren Buffet once quipped, "It's only when the tide goes out that we see who has been swimming naked." The first unseen cause discussed.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020Here's Why the Covid Crisis Will Be Worse Than the 1930s We are not experiencing one crisis caused by the Corona virus calamity, but four. The other three are hidden under it. They remain largely undetected in the mainstream media. They are about to surface for, as that intrepid investor Warren Buffet once quipped, "It's only when the tide goes out that we see who has been swimming naked." The first unseen cause discussed.
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Sunday, April 19, 2020
Cashing In On the Covid Crisis The rich use economic meltdowns for massive upward transfers of wealth. Here's how the corporate executives prepared their corporations to be able to plead need for a bailout and scoop up the COVID 19 stimulus money.
Sunday, April 19, 2020Cashing In On the Covid Crisis The rich use economic meltdowns for massive upward transfers of wealth. Here's how the corporate executives prepared their corporations to be able to plead need for a bailout and scoop up the COVID 19 stimulus money.
