Net Neutrality: Public Support, “Light Touch” Regulation, and the Coming Court Challenges
A round-up before the FCC”s expected decision to abolish net neutrality on December 14.
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Tesla’s “Semi” Truck: Perspectives from the Cab and the Truck Stop and the Dock
Looking at the Tesla Semi from the driver’s perspective.
Read more...CalPERS Corruption Watch: Chief Investment Officer Ted Eliopoulos Takes Illegal Business Solicitations From Recent Employee
On the one hand, the latest public disclosure of misconduct by CalPERS executives and staff isn’t earthshaking. On the other, it was still significant enough to merit a Financial Times story. And it also illustrates a thumb-nosing attitude toward the law that has become a CalPERS trademark. In a Financial Times FundFire article, Ex-CalPERS Exec’s […]
Read more...The Situation in Puerto Rico: The Roads
Efforts to repair the road system in Puerto Rico seem grossly incommensurate to the scope and degree of the damage.
Read more...India’s Demonetization Experiment Fails to Demonetize: Cash Comes Full Circle
Cash withdrawals from Indian ATM machines are nearly back to the level of just before Modi’s demonetization shock.
Read more...Don Quijones: The Steep Price of Disaster in Mexico
Although the death toll is far less than the ’85 earthquake, Mexico now faces rebuilding with no insurance and little government aid.
Read more...More Signs of Private Equity Market Frenzy: Firms Selling Stakes
Yet more evidence that the private equity market is overheated.
Read more...Hookworm Persists as US Public Health Problem
Hookworm, thought to be largely eradicated in the US, persists in Lowndes, County, Alabama, due to poor sanitation and inadequate regulation.
Read more...GAO Report Finds Rural Postal Service Remains Essential
More evidence that cutting back on rural postal service is a bad idea.
Read more...Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism
How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Deigns to Notice Costly Indiana Toll Road Failure, Depicts It as Isolated When Toll Roads “Consistently” Go Bust
Toll road projects have consistently failed over the last decade and a half, but you never hear that in the mainstream press.
Read more...Where Do Pro-Social Institutions Come From?
How Do Countries ’Get to Denmark‘?
Read more...Trump Using Failed Australian “Asset Recycling” to Justify Mass Privatizations
Why would Trump adopt a foreign model for infrastructure that even conservatives deemed a failure? Apparently for the looting.
Read more...Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion
A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
Read more...China Cannot Finance the Belt and Road Alone
The One Belt One Road initiative holds great promise for the global economy, but will need a huge amount of finance. Initial presumptions that China would be able to provide all the finance are now unrealistic. Other partners should consider providing finance for some aspects, especially Europe – which has a lot to gain from the project.
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