Goldman Is Evil But McKinsey Is Worse
Why the McKinsey veneer is looking tattier and tattier with every passing day, and why that’s not likely to change.
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Will 2021 Be the Year for the Right to Repair?
Will 2021 be the year that sees many states adopt a right to repair? Farmers may be the first to benefit, with digital consumers next.
Read more...Mayberry v. KKR: Kentucky Attorney General Shows True Colors, Looks Over-Eager to Settle Pathbreaking Pension Case Rather Than Inconvenience Private Equity Kingpins Blackstone and KKR
Yet more underhanded-looking dealing, this time by the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, in the landmark pension case Mayberry v. KKR.
Read more...As COVID Rages, Bankruptcy Cases Fall…..For Now
The good news about bankruptcy under Covid is not likely to last.
Read more...Pension Bridge Presents Former CalPERS CIO Ben Meng as ESG Leader Despite California Investigation for Conflict of Interest That Led to His Exit
Pension Bridge discredits itself by inviting former CalPERS CIO Ben Meng, under investigation for ethics violations, to speak at its ESG event
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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