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A Real Russian Scandal: Yuri A. Dmitriev and Stalin's Great Purge  

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This week, I was involved in putting together this press release regarding historian Yuri A. Dmitriev:

Can Gulag Historian Yuri A. Dmitriev Receive a Fair Trial?

Contact: Elizabeth Childs
Russian.human.rights.alert@gmail.com
+1 (510) 547–2589

Yuri Dmitriev, Russian historian, chairman of the Karelia Memorial Society, and GULAG scholar is on...

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Multiemployer Pension Plans: The Politicking  

by meep

Some multiemployer pensions (MEPs) are failing. Various politicians are trying to step in with very unrealistic bills to "save" the endangered plans, ignoring why some are endangered and others are doing just fine.

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Catch-Up Week: Let's Turn Around Connecticut!  

by meep

First, the very shocking news that taxing rich people more doesn’t work out the way people would like to think it works.

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH)–Connecticut’s state budget woes are compounding with collections from the state income tax collapsing, despite two high-end tax hikes in the past six years....

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Catch-Up Week: Puerto Rico on the Brink (again)  

by meep

I have a huge backlog (been ill lately), so I’m going to be dropping a bunch of related links within posts.

But first, let me thank my referrers:

• This person on the Alberta Outdoors Men Forum (that’s a bit odd)
• Truth in Accounting
• Pension Tsunami
• Wirepoints
• The Other McCain

Thanks,...

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Friday Trumpery: Did You Know Trump is Involved in Real Estate?  

by meep

And did you know that institutional investors, like public pensions, are involved in investing in real estate?

No?

Does Reuters have an EXCLUSIVE for you!

Exclusive: A New York hotel deal shows how some public pension funds help to enrich Trump

WOW!

Let’s read more!

Public pension funds in at least seven U.S....

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Distance Makes It Clearer: Pension Protests in Brazil  

by meep

Violent protests in Brazil? What’s this about?

Brazil waters down pension reform as protests turn violent:

Brazilian President Michel Temer on Tuesday made new concessions to ease passage of an unpopular pension reform bill, leading police unions to try and invade Congress in the latest angry demonstration from a labor group.

The...

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Friday Trumpery: Rich Woman Complains Other Women Aren't Rich  

by meep

Yes, yes, I’m deliberately mis-interpreting Ivanka Trump’s tweet:

#EqualPayDay is a reminder that women deserve equal pay for equal work. We must work to close the gender pay gap! https://t.co/CcwsoBXWdF

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) April 4, 2017

Let’s check out the...

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Friday Trumpery: No Exemptions for State-Run "Private" Pensions [UPDATED]  

by meep

I can’t believe this, a Friday Trumpery post about something fairly substantial that intersects with my bloggy interests! Pensions!

It’s not very exciting, and won’t get much press, because it’s one of those things that nobody gets much worked up about, but the goo goos love as an idea,...

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Pensions at the Supreme Court: Church Plans  

by meep

This is mostly going to be a round up of stories, but a pension-related case made it to the Supreme Court on Monday.

This surrounds “church plans”, but specifically DB pension plans started by various healthcare entities owned/operated by various churches. Church plans are exempt from ERISA, the pension-related...

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Friday Trumpery: DEY TOOK OUR ACTUARIAL JERRRRRBS  

by meep

Yes, I’m being a bit silly.

So one of the big issues from the Trump admin is immigration, especially with regards to the DEY TOOK ERR JERRRRRRRBS aspect.

For the longest time, people assumed these jobs being taken were more of the nasty “jobs Americans won’t do”,...

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