Robert Reich: Here’s Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech
Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists, especially when they can influence our elections and control how Americans receive information.
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Facebook’s New Libra Digital Currency, Trust Issues (Many), and Sovereignty
Trust issues with Facebook’s Libra for users, regulators, and technically. And is Facebook seeking to become a sovereign?
Read more...Why Is CalPERS Still So Afraid of Elisabeth Bourqui?
CalPERS is acting awfully guilty.
Read more...Good Riddance to CalPERS’ Bill Slaton; Board Changes May (Finally) Lead to Staff Serving Beneficiaries, Not Its Own Interests
Why beneficiaries and California taxpayers should welcome Lisa Middleton replacing Bill Slaton on the CalPERS board.
Read more...Ralph Nader Calls Out Boeing for 737 MAX Lack of Airworthiness, Stock Buybacks, and Demands Muilenburg Resign
Nader: “There is no need to wait for some long-drawn out, redundant inquiry. Management was criminally negligent, 346 lives of passengers and crew were lost.”
Read more...Promotions and the Peter Principle
The Peter Principle lives!
Read more...CalPERS Wastes Fund Assets on a Sham Investigation to Intimidate Board Members
CalPERS resorts to a “garbage in, garbage out” investigation to try to bully board members who have the temerity to ask questions and talk to the press.
Read more...JJ Jelincic: CalPERS’ Plan to Create 2 New Private Equity Companies, Give Away Billions With No Control Makes No Sense….Except to Make Fund Managers Rich
CalPERS still can’t justify its new private equity business model, and has even retreated to calling it just a concept, yet it wants the board to sign a blank check at next week’s meeting.
Read more...Is a Harvard MBA Bad for You?
Why an MBA is not what it is cracked up to be.
Read more...CalPERS Election Vendor Votem on Verge of Failure Just as CalPERS Board About to Approve “Business as Usual” Election Notice
More proof that CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost is so busy with self-promotion that she can’t be bothered to have her staff execute adequately on important but not-that-difficult tasks.
Read more...CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng Lied About Private Equity to State Senator Dr. Richard Pan at Joint Pension Committee Hearing
CalPERS lied to the wrong person. State Senator Dr. Richard Pan is smart enough to know he was snookered when word gets back to him.
Read more...CalPERS’ Management Continues to Lie to Its Board and Beneficiaries About Its Private Equity Scheme
CalPERS is once again up to no good on the private equity front.
Read more...Even More on “Is CalPERS Private Equity Architect John Cole So Clueless He Doesn’t Know He’s Lying?”
It has taken three posts to unpack all the lies that John Cole told CalPERS’ board in December about its new private equity scheme.
Read more...CalPERS’ Story About Sudden “Resignation” of Star Hire Elisabeth Bourqui Falls Apart as Bourqui Comes to Board Meeting With Heavyweight Employment Lawyer
Pass the popcorn. It looks like CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost tangled with the wrong person in the form of Elisabeth Bourqui.
Read more...CalPERS Fiasco: Impermissible Non-Public Board Election Count; Failure of Widely Criticized Internet Voting to Deliver on Any Goals; Botched Tabulation
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.
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