AG Merrick Garland Outlines Corporate Crime Prosecution Priorities
AG Merrick Garland outlined corporate crime enforcement priorities in a speech last week before an ABA group.
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There’s No Sugarcoating Hershey’s Abuse of Workers and Union-Busting Tactics
Hershey is not nice.
Read more...Shareholder Activism: Icahn Targets McDonald’s Pig Pens
Carl Icahn seeks to force McDonald’s 2012 pledge to cease to use gestation crate to confine pregnant pigs within a decade.
Read more...Resource Limits to American Capitalism & The Predator State Today
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of the US from industrialism to his so-called predator state: finance-led, military-centered corporatism
Read more...Building a State One Step at a Time: Evidence from France
Some theories about government-making from France….but do they hold up?
Read more...A Facet of Late-State Capitalist Failure: Operational Breakage
Are seemingly increasing operational failures a sign of a bigger pathology?
Read more...CalPERS Continues to Grossly Misrepresent Facts and Law to Avoid Disclosing Full Transcript of Improper Board Meeting After CIO Ben Meng Quit; Will Judge Markman Buy It?
True to form, CalPERS general counsel Matt Jacobs is playing fast and loose with the law and facts. Will Judge Markman let him get away with it?
Read more...With Billions in Fines, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Ranks Are ‘Packed With Rogues’
A new report catalogues 15,896 federal and state violations from more than 100 U.S. Chamber of Commerce members, including major fossil fuel companies.
Read more...Wrong Way CalPERS: Dumping $6 Billion of Private Equity After Struggling to Put Money to Work and Then Increasing Target
CalPERS is trying to do something more obviously nonsensical than usual.
Read more...General Electric Breaks Up, Symbolizing Decline of American Manufacturing and the High Price of Financialization
How stock price fixated management and a big expansion into financial services under Jack Welch did in the once-esteemed General Electric.
Read more...Deere Union Members Reject Second Management Offer; Key Demands Include Greater Workplace Say
Deere union members at 12 of 14 factories put the screws on management by rejecting their latest offer.
Read more...Will the Supply Chain Crisis Lead to More Onshoring?
Why even if we see more serious breakdowns, big and medium sized companies are unlikely to move away from reliance on a fragile supply chain.
Read more...John Deere Strike: A Union Member Explains How Bad Faith Dealings Produced Today’s Grievances
A backgrounder from TroyIA, a Naked Capitalism reader and John Deere worker, on what drove union members to strike.
Read more...European Investment Scammers Allegedly Laundered Their Money through Scotland
Investigations by European and Ukrainian prosecutors revealed an alleged investment fraud with funds laundered via UK corporate entities
Read more...Smear Campaigns Work: Pro-Transparency Board Member Margaret Brown, Candidate Tiffany Emon-Moran, Both Lose CalPERS Board Election
The California public employees unions that have bizarrely made clear that they are firmly on the side of having CalPERS continue to be poorly run have gotten their way. Pro accountability, pro-transparency board member Margaret Brown, and Tiffany Emon-Moran, who was challenging incumbent and staunch staff David Miller, were both defeated in this year’s board […]
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