December 22, 2016

“It has been ‘Let’s give the façade we are negotiating and complying.’ But there has been no enforcement. We haven’t been serious about compliance.” In Panama, it proves particularly hard to reform offshore banking laws when the president has what his critics refer to as an “offshore cabinet” of lawyers linked to Mossack Fonseca-like firms dedicated to setting up potentially illicit offshore accounts. / The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

“For a short period, it seemed showbiz here was dominated by Mexicans and their local reps.” / roadsandkingdoms.com

President Obama’s Education Department is “actively seeking” to collect on student loan debt payments from for-profit college students/victims that it has already identified as being eligible for relief. / Bloomberg

Related: A GAO report found that tens of thousands of Social Security-receiving senior citizens had their checks garnished due to unpaid student loan debts last year. That number ought to be in the millions in, oh, about 40 years. / consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com

Remembering DARE, the expensive anti-drugs in schools program that didn’t work at all. / Priceonomics

From the Huffington Post: / HuffPost

“I’m a loner. I don’t talk to anyone. I just found this stuff searching web sites. What the real truth is.” A profile of Robert Dear, the white terrorist who shot up a Planned Parenthood in Colorado, and the fear-mongering, right-wing media that radicalized him. / The New Republic