CalPERS refused to abandon its half-baked idea to push beneficiaries to vote by Internet ant phone. The scheme had not only failed to produce its alleged benefits, but it’s also again demonstrated CalPERS’ incompetence and deep commitment to cronyism.
Read more...John Bolton manages the difficult task of making me yearn for the days of Henry Kissinger.
Read more...The LA Times reports that SpaceX, the unicorn startup with a newly minted $30.5 billion “valuation” and dreams of sending humans to Mars shortly, will lay off about 10% of its employees.
Read more...Wreckage of national parks during the shutdown as yet another sign of lack of social cohesion.
Read more...Beware of squillionaires practicing philanthropy…..
Read more...It turns out the often-maligned SEC is much missed as the Federal partial shutdown puts the IPO market on hold.
Read more...Kamala Harris’ supposed big accomplishment, of getting California a better deal in the 2012 mortgage settlement, isn’t anything to boast about.
Read more...The Orwellianly-named Integrity Initiative is bringing international disinformation campaign, road tested in Europe. to the US, in the form of a “political smear unit.”
Read more...The Modi government is trying to stare down large-scale strikes against its labor “reforms” in India.
Read more...CalPERS loses a highly qualified top executive. CEO Marcie Frost’s fingerprints are all over the departure, in a bad way.
Read more...Some Davos musings show that our elites aren’t what they are cracked up to be.
Read more...Handicapping the new year based on early indicators.
Read more...A short tally of some of the damage done by the partial Federal shutdown.
Read more...At the behest of fossil fuel interests, Trump’s EPA seeks to change the way of calculating future benefits of environmental rules and thus undermines 2011 mercury emissions standards — even though power plants have already invested to comply with the rules.
Read more...Another CalPERS PR gambit backfires, revealing yet more problems with CalPERS private equity scheme.
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