CalPERS’ board has hired a fiduciary counsel, Robert Klausner, who has been associated with scandals for over a decade, the latest in Jacksonville, Florida.
Read more...CalPERS’ CEO and its staff are engaged in systematic, flagrant, and apparently long-standing violations of California’s open meeting law, the Bagley-Keene Act.
Read more...Yves here. Readers know I have a weakness for righteous rants…
Read more...Robert Jenkins, a former banker, hedge fund manager, and regulator, points out that regulatory reform has fallen short on multiple fronts, and perhaps the most important is courage.
Read more...Empire-booster-in-chief Niall Ferguson gets yet another well-deserved shellacking, this time on how he falsifies the record in drawing lessons from Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Read more...Support Occupy the SEC in opposing a bill that would give white collar criminals a new, improved “get out of jail free” card.
Read more...How Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s remarks to the DIet about the TPP reveal a lot about the aims of this deal and its vulnerabilities.
Read more...GXG Markets is gone but the dirty dealings continue
Read more...Data and on the ground reports on the high cost of Greek austerity.
Read more...Why are so many drawn to the Sanders message? It’s because so many of us want to stop our entire society from crumbling beneath the destructive power of runaway inequality.
Read more...Offshore financial centres are a political and economic phenomenon that goes far beyond secrecy, and Ireland makes a remarkable case study.
Read more...Please provide your comment on regulatory guidance, um, crackdown, proposed by the IRS on a private equity tax abuse, management fee waivers.
Read more...How the TPP would make financial firms that are “TIBACO” – that is, too interconnected, big, and complex to oversee – even more dangerous.
Read more...Now government officials and police are disagreeing with each other…
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