Latest updates on the right to repair, discussing crucial skirmishes in the ongoing war on waste. The Economist recognizes the important issue, and US DHS supports Apple’s spurious, anti-repair claims.
Read more...Why the new, improved NAFTA is only a little less bad than the old one.
Read more...EU leaders have apparently decided that dealing with Brexit isn’t a pressing matter. That’s not a good move.
Read more...The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...Why limited liability for banks is not such a hot idea.
Read more...Toys ‘R’ Us will be back, albeit in a skinnied down form.
Read more...Puerto Rico shows how distress and grifting too often go hand in hand.
Read more...Trump’s DoJ yesterday filed a lawsuit to overturn California’s net neutrality law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown earlier during the day.
Read more...Elon Musk put himself in the SEC’s crosshairs.
Read more...The first set of of four negotiating sessions to produce a UN treaty on the high seas by 2020 concluded last week in New York; this would extend the existing law of the sea framework beyond each nation’s territorial waters.
Read more...SEC co-director of enforcement Stephanie Avakian delivered a speech in Dallas last week defending the agency’s enforcement record, as the number of cases brought and amount of fines collected both continue to drop.
Read more...Medical bills are so out of hand that despite the power of the health industry lobbyists, some Senators are taking on the worst abuses.
Read more...More on Frost’s misrule at CalPERS.
Read more...A secret corporate arbitration panel in the Hague ruled that Ecuadorean courts’ $9.5 billion judgement against Chevron for environmental damages is illegal and should not be enforced. An expert argues that the decision is a travesty.
Read more...The Kavanaugh row gets messier.
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