Category Archives: Investment management

The Fight to Hold Executives and Boards Accountable Continues in Barclays and Bayer Appeals

An update on two cases, one against Barclays, the other Bayer executives and directors, which seek accountability in New York courts.

Who Holds All These US Treasuries? Update on the Investors in the Ballooning US National Debt in Q2

As the Fed unloads Treasuries, others are purchasing them…including foreign central banks.

Elon Musk and Tesla Shape America’s Future. But Problems Run Deeper Than Tweets.

The financialization of U.S. firms making key products endangers American global leadership and, in Tesla’s case, climate change progress.

Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Battle With Yet More Efforts by KKR and Blackstone to Delay or Prevent Discovery

An update on the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems pension case, with KKR and Blackstone and their execs still fighting discovery

The Irrationality of Markets

More evidence that the current level of advanced economy secondary market trading is bad for economic health.

AI Financial Crises

Yes, Virginia, AI, like older forms of automated trading, has a nasty propensity to cause crises.

Analysis Shows How Surging Stock Buybacks Bolster Case for Corporate Tax Hike

The magnitude of corporate cash going to stock buybacks suggests reversing the Trump tax cuts poses little real economy risk.

Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?

The Elon Musk $48 Billion stock-option package and its implications for the EV transition

Private Equity Becomes Roach Motel as Public Pension Funds and Other Investors Borrow As Funds Remain Tied Up

Oopsie! Private equity firms are hanging on to investor money for an unseemly amount of time! What to do?

Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide

Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.

“Dollar Doomsters Have Got It All Wrong”

Why reports of the [imminent] death of the dollar are greatly exaggerated.

Israel Boosterism Keeps Israel Bonds Afloat Even as Some Top Global Investors Exit

Israel bonds, an important element of Israel’s war financing, are coming under attack.

Private Equity Seeks to Foist Companies It Can’t Sell on Employees

Oh noes! Private equity is finding it hard to find buyers for all those deals it bought when interest rates were low!

Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Seek Repayment from KKR Entities of Misappropriated $137 Million Plus Interest and Punitive Damages, Totaling $771 Million….Oh, and An Accounting Too

The Tier 3 Plaintiffs in the long-running public pension case, Kentucky Retirement Systems, are fast off their marks with a blockbuster filing.