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The Saudi Aramco IPO: What You Need to Know

After years of teasing, the moment has finally arrived: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (hereinafter dubbed "MbS" or "the Clown Prince") has announced the Saudi government's intention to float a stake in Saudi Aramco. As you no doubt already know...

How to Worship Your Government

"The President of the United States is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven." Thus spake Pat Robertson during the recent brouhaha over Syria, where the unthinkable notion that the US might actually pull out of a war zone instead of sending more troops in began to...

Upon Meeting A Friend for the First Time

It's hard to believe that I've been collaborating with James Evan Pilato on New World Next Week—our weekly news update series—for 10 years now. It's even harder to believe that, after all these years of talking about a real-world meet up with James, it finally came to...

The World’s Largest (Democratic!) Biometric Prison

Whenever they talk about India and its "inevitable" rise to world economic dominance, establishment hacks like Thomas "Iraq War booster" Friedman always seem compelled to note that the country is "the world's largest democracy." They might want to talk to the...

The Best of The Corbett Report

A lot of people have asked me to post a "Best of The Corbett Report" list so they can get a handle on the vast amount of material in the corbettreport.com archives. Although this list is necessarily partial and arbitrary, it provides a window into the type of work...

The Ratings Game: How the Banking Mafia Operates

Five years ago in the pages of this very column I examined "The Ratings Game: Rating agencies as weapons of economic warfare." In that article I explained how the major credit rating agencies—Standard & Poor's (S&P), Moody's, and Fitch Ratings—act as adjuncts...