Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The ‘Revolving Door’
An update on one of the biggest users of DC revolving doors: health care industry executives.
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Rail Workers Acquitted in Trial on Deadly Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster
A jury acquitted front line workers in the horrific Lac-Mégantic “bomb train,” but the higher-ups have not been held to account.
Read more...A Day in the Life of an NHS Nurse – How Our Government Is Failing Both Patients and Nurses
Nurses are leaving the NHS, and that’s no accident.
Read more...Amazon Scores Two More $5+ Billion Bids
More grifting, Amazon-style.
Read more...Fiduciary Counsel Ashley Dunning Encourages CalPERS to Muscle Actuary to Change His Forecasts of Funding Needs
How CalPERS’ fiduciary counsel encouraged its board to pressure its actuary to produce more politically-convenient results.
Read more...More on the Opiate Abuse Epidemic: Where Again Does the Finger Point?
Debunking some pet conservative myths about the opiate crisis.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Democrats Laying Their Own Bonfire
The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
Read more...Is the Most Massive, Illegal Paywall in the World About to Come Down?
PACER’s days of massively overcharging and impeding legal research may be about to end.
Read more...Amazon, City Killer?
The unseemly bidding war to have the opportunity to have Amazon ruin your city moves to its finalist phase.
Read more...The CIA Bull in Glenn Simpson’s Russia Shop
Russia case was a black job assigned by Republican candidates for president, then the Democratic National Committee, to discredit Trump in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Read more...The Long-Term Care Crisis: Premiums Exploding, Leaving Seniors With “An Awful Choice”
More on the long-term care insurance train wreck.
Read more...5 Ways Capitalist Logic Has Sabotaged the Scientific Community
A useful short list on how commercial and competitive pressures have undermined good scientific practice.
Read more...Carillion Must Now Also Face Justice for Blacklisting Trade Unionists
More on Carillion’s bad deeds.
Read more...Lawsuit Against Blackstone, KKR/Prisma, PAAMCO, Kentucky Retirement System, and Others Has Major Implications for Public Pension Funds
A case filed at the end of last year, Mayberry v. KKR, hasn’t gotten the attention it warrants. The suit, which we’ve embedded at the end of this post, was filed on behalf of the beneficiaries of Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS), the state’s public pension fund and its taxpayers, against Blackstone, KKR/Prisma, and PAAMCO for […]
Read more...Why Is CalPERS Board Member/Governor Wannabe John Chiang Telling a Big Lie About CalPERS Private Equity Outsourcing Scheme?
Gubernatorial candidate John Chiang looks more loyal to private equity than he does to California voters and CalPERS beneficiaries.
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