28 links today. Enjoy.
Pentagon’s Sloppy Bookkeeping Means $6.5 Trillion Can’t Pass an Audit (The Fiscal Times)
Tracking Lobbying by Foreign Governments (Mind-boggling lack of transparency, by Demand Progress)
Pentagon Acknowledges US Ground Forces Supporting ISIS Fight in Libya (More non-boots on the ground, The Hill)
With Yemeni Casualties Rising, GOP Senator Looks to Block Big Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia (Foreign Policy)
Russia Starts Planned Exercises in Eastern Mediterranean (WW3 alert, Reuters)
Turkey May Seek Non-NATO Options for Defense Industry Cooperation (Reuters)
Troops Kill 5 Civilians at Anti-India Protests in Kashmir (AP)
More Than a Good Feeling (Great Christopher Hitchens article on the Clinton Foundation from 2009, Slate)
Top Clinton State Department Aide Helped Clinton Foundation (CNN)
Trump Camp Apparently Soliciting Foreign Cash Despite Warnings (The Hill)
“Capitalism Is a Lot More Important Than Democracy,” Says Donald Trump’s Economic Adviser (The Intercept)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Faces a Primary Test (She needs to lose, Wall Street Journal)
Big Alcohol is Working to Undermine Marijuana Legalization (SF Gate)
Has Michael Bloomberg’s Praetorian Guard Moved to Bloomberg News? (Wall Street on Parade)
Aetna to Pull Out of Most Obamacare Exchanges (CNN)
Hunting for Yield? They’re Handing It Out in the Money Market (Wall Street Journal)
DEA Regularly Mines Americans’ Travel Records to Seize Millions in Cash (USA Today)
Stores to Customers: “Cash Not Welcome Here” (CBS News)
Hedge Funds Are Losing Endowments After Exodus of Pensions (Much more of this to come, Bloomberg)
Hedge Funds Face New Blow as $83 Billion Pension Cuts Them Out (Bloomberg)
Owners Flip New Seattle Condos for Big Profit Before They Even Open (Toppy, The Seattle Times)
Prices of UK Homes for Sale See Biggest Fall in 9 Months in August (Reuters)
Federal Reserve Protesters Have Their Hotel Room Reservations Canceled Due to ‘Computer Glitch’ (Wall Street Journal)
Wealth Tax Looms As Greeks Forced To Declare All ‘Assets’ To Tax Authority (Zerohedge)
Next President Faces Possible ObamaCare Meltdown (The Hill)
The Great Affluence Fallacy (I generally find David Brooks unreadable, but I enjoyed this, New York Times)
Lawrence Wilkerson on Trump and Clinton (Really good watch, YouTube)
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
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