Payday Lending Rule Survives…For Now
Congress has failed to use Congressional Review Act procedures to scupper the payday lending rule. Pending CFPB and court challenges may still doom the measure.
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Social Multipliers in Crime: Measuring the Spillover Effects of Criminal Behaviour
An example of how the peer environment influences crime levels.
Read more...CalPERS Issues False and Misleading Press Release to Try to Railroad Board on Private Equity Industry Enrichment Scheme
A brazen example of CalPERS staff trying to muscle board members and have them violate their fiduciary duty regarding a massive, misguided, and sketchy private equity outsourcing scheme.
Read more...CalPERS Board Members Say They Don’t Want to Do Their Jobs, Can’t Be Bothered With Dealing With Their Mail
The CalPERS board makes an embarrassing display of how little interest it has in rolling up its sleeves and doing some work.
Read more...Ecuador Hints It May Hand Over Assange
Assange’s luck in staying out of the hands of the US may be coming to an end.
Read more...Update: CalPERS Chief Financial Officer Charles Asubonten Now Not Presenting at Board Meeting Today
A bit of evidence suggests that Charles Asubonten may be on his way out of CalPERS.
Read more...Criminality, CalPERS Style: Board Members Misappropriate Public Funds by Signing Blank, Undated Expense Forms
The CalPERS Board President, Priay Mathur, the Board Services Unit, and board members are pre-signing expense forms in violation of the California Penal code.
Read more...Election-Rigging, CalPERS-Style: How Voting by Phone Was Designed to Favor Incumbent, Suppress Support for Challenger
CalPERS not only looks to have tried to throw the phone voting in a runoff election last year in favor of the incumbent, but it is acting awfully guilty by refusing to cough up records and data.
Read more...CalPERS Has Chief Financial Officer Charles Asubonten, With Verifiable Misrepresentations on His Resume, Presenting to the Board Next Week. What Gives?
CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost appears to be doubling down on her initial bad judgment about Chief Financial Officer Charles Asubonten’s resume misrepresentations by featuring him prominently at a board committee meeting next week.
Read more...Airbnb Turns to Brussels for Help as Anti-Tourist Backlash Intensifies in Europe
Airbnb is on the run in Europe and desperate to find allies.
Read more...20% of Inmates in California Jails on Psychotropic Medications
Why are inmates in California jails being medicated at much higher rates than in the past?
Read more...SEC Gives Private Equity Firm Welsh Carson a Wet Noodle Lashing Over Purchasing Kickback Abuse
More SEC enforcement theater on the private equity front.
Read more...Warren Buffett’s Mortgage Companies Engage in Alleged Discrimination Against Minority Borrowers, Violating Fair Housing Act
An investigative report suggests that Berkshire Hathaway’s mortgage lending operation discriminates against minority borrowers.
Read more...New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Resigns Due to Sexual Assault Allegations, After Getting Away With Selling Out Homeowners
Good riddance to Eric Schneiderman.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Setting a Perjury Trap for Trump
Is Mueller engaging in prosecutorial overreach in the form of trying to set a perjury trap for Trump?
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