End Upward Pre-Distribution to Rich; SEC Touts Inflated Numbers; Europe TTIP Negotiations Falter

Why We Must End Upward Pre-Distribution to the Rich. Reversing the scourge of widening inequality requires reversing the upward pre-distributions within the rules of the market, and giving average people the bargaining power they need.

SEC Touts Inflated Numbers to Look Way Tougher Than It Is. The Securities and Exchange Commission recorded 755 different enforcement actions yielding $4.1 billion in monetary penalties in 2014, she boasted in a speech this February – “the highest number of cases in the history of the Commission.” But the numbers she cited were “deeply flawed,” according to a study that will soon be published in the Cornell Law Review.

Will TTIP Get Terminated? Negotiations Falter as Europe Balks. A group of more than 55 UK members of parliament (MPs) has signed onto a motion expressing major concerns about the mammoth trade pact, which civil society groups have dubbed a corporate giveaway.