Former CalPERS Board Designee Calls for Board to Terminate CEO Marcie Frost for Resume Fabrications and Ongoing Lies
A prominent former CalPERS insider demands that the Board fire CEO Marcie Frost over her lies about her education.
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Revolving Doors and Regulatory Capture
Looking at the costs of and some possible responses to regulatory capture.
Read more...Marcie Frost’s Poor Job as CalPERS CEO – Gutting the Audit Function
CalPERS is undermining the performance of its audit unit, a critical control function. The fact that CEO Marcie Frost either doesn’t care, or is not even on top of things enough to know, is yet another sign of her incompetence.
Read more...Marcie Frost‘s Poor Job as CalPERS CEO – Incompetence in Human Resources, One of Her Supposed Areas of Expertise
Marcie Frost’s track record as CEO of CalPeRS is not a pretty one.
Read more...State AGs to Step Up Enforcement Against Tech Companies?
The WSJ reported Monday that state AGs, who include many Republicans, are poised to step up enforcement against big tech. Interesting times may lie ahead.
Read more...If You Read This Book, It’ll Make You a Radical: A Conversation with Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank on what’s the matter with America.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Big Oil Seeks Billions from U.S. Government to Protect It From…Climate Change
Big oil seeks yet another handout.
Read more...Former Official Criticizes CalPERS Board Member Richard Costigan’s Defense of CEO Marcie Frost’s Lies
A salvo against CalPERS board member Richard Costigan for his dubious defense of CEO Marcie Frost’s resume misrepresentations.
Read more...Holding the Line on Torture
An update on the struggle to get US mental health professionals out of the business of advising on torture techniques.
Read more...Why Is CalPERS Aggressively Promoting Internet Voting Despite Experts Like the National Institute of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Saying “Hell No”?
More proof that CalPERS has no shame.
Read more...Financial Times’ FundFire Unambiguously Confirms Our Reporting of Misrepresentations by CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost
Financial Times’ FundFire reporter Fola Akinnibi has written three stories this week that referred to misrepresentations made by CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost during and after her hiring by the giant pension fund. His latest report, CalPERS CEO Misstated Educational Background During Hiring Process (no online version) not only flatly calls out Frost’s falsehoods, but also […]
Read more...Democrats Can Block the Kavanaugh Nomination If They Want To
By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow him on Twitter @Gaius_Publius, Tumblr and Facebook. GP article archive here. Originally published at Common Dreams If Democratic votes put Kavanaugh on the Court, the nation will be harmed […]
Read more...A Texas Lawsuit Being Heard This Week Could Mean Life Or Death For The ACA
Another Republican effort to wreck the ACA might succeed.
Read more...Nick Turse: The U.S. Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!
The US military disproves the notion “the conventional army loses if it does not win,” and now wins simply by not losing.
Read more...Second Circuit Narrows Reach of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Second Circuit last week narrowed the reach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but will not redirect the DoJ to focus on enforcement of more significant violations that occur closer to home.
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