More on the GameStop Short Squeeze: GME Myths Busted
Explaining why some of the nefarious theories about the evil GME short sellers are all wet.
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Investors Not Reassured by Apollo Trying to ‘Splain Leon Black’s $188 Million in Payments to Serial Child Rapist Jeffrey Epstein
Apollo is not having much success with its claim that a $188 million paid by Leon Black to Jeffrey Epstein in fees and loans was bona fide.
Read more...Some Implications of the GameStop Short Squeeze
The seeming success of the GameStop short-slayers could in the long run come at high cost to some of them and most of us.
Read more...TikTok Got A US Reprieve, But Elsewhere, It’s War
Tik-Tok is getting its wings clippped. But how far will containment efforts go?
Read more...Should President Biden Revoke Section 230?
“What to do about tech platforms” has fixated on Section 230, when more should be done.
Read more...Michael Olenick: From Intel to Apple – Noncompetes are Bad Business
Silicon Valley would never have taken off if noncompetes had been used in its early years, yet titans later restricted hiring across the industry.
Read more...‘We’re Not Controlling It in Our Schools’: Covid Safety Lapses Abound Across US
America’s inability to devise and implement Covid-containment strategies in schools illustrates why the disease won’t be vanquished soon.
Read more...Why Apollo’s Palace Coup Against Leon Black and Further Disclosures on Jeffrey Epstein Are Not Reassuring
The few details that Apollo offered about Leon Black’s relationship to serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein only make things look worse.
Read more...Say It Ain’t So, Joe: Character Clause May Bar Any Candidate from Election to Baseball Hall of Fame This Year
An expansive interpretation of a character test is excluding baseball’s top performers from induction into the Hall of Fame; should it?
Read more...Blockbuster Lawsuit Targets Deutsche Bank Executives and Supervisors for Epic Abuses, Value Destruction
An important suit taking aim at the extensive misconduct of Deutsche Bank executives and board members is grinding its way through court.
Read more...Ins and Outs of Congressional Review Act and Climate Change Rules
The Biden administration could use the Congressional Review Act to reverse Trump rulemaking. But it’s easier said than done.
Read more...More Jockeying on Kentucky Pension Case, Mayberry v. KKR
Mayberry v. KKR may finally be getting to the starting line.
Read more...Near-Term Covid Analyses Point to Risk of Medical System Breakdown, Other Severe Dislocations
The Covid situation is continuing to develop not necessarily to America’s advantage.
Read more...Flint Water Crisis: Michigan AG Poised to Indict Ex-Gov Snyder, Other Officials, Later This Week, But on What Charges?
The Michigan AG reportedly will soon bring criminal charges against ex-governor Rick Snyder and others for actions in the Flint water crisis.
Read more...Trump Designates Cuba a State Sponsor of Terrorism; Biden Likely to Reverse (Quickly?)
Trump designates Cuba a state sponsos of terrorism. What actually changes? How extensive will Biden’s inevitable policy reassessment be?
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