Goldman Gets Off Easy in 1MDB Scandal Despite Further $2.9 Billion in Payments, Criminal Charge Against Malaysian Sub
Despite the big numbers, Goldman gets the kid glove treatment relative to the severity of its 1MBD misconduct.
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Profits Over Human Life? ER Doctor’s Story Is Fearful Lesson for U.S. Workers During Pandemic
Dr. Ming Lin spoke out about Covid safety and was fired. A doctor working for corporations must check his medical ethics at the door.
Read more...U.S. Supreme Court Rejects GOP Call Not to Extend Deadline for Mail-In Ballots
A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling ruling to extend the deadline for counting mail-in ballots.
Read more...Waste Watch: New York Begins Enforcing Plastic Bag Ban
New York begins to enforce its ban on single-use plastic bags, delayed since March by the pandemic and various lawsuits.
Read more...With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-Billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public
Yet another example otf how the oil industry is subsidized, here by another way it dumps environmental costs on the public at large.
Read more...Latest Election Stunt Proves Uber and Lyft Are Their Own Worst Political Enemies
Quelle surprise! Uber and Lyft are acting in bad faith in their struggles to get out of being classified as employers.
Read more...Milton Friedman Versus Stakeholder Capitalism
Looking at the damage Milton Friedman did by advocating corporate irresponsibility, which more and more orthodox economists have questioned.
Read more...Corporate Law Consequences: Amy Coney Barrett Nomination
Quick take on what the Amy Coney Barrett appointment means for various areas of corporate law and why Republicans are so keen to confirm her.
Read more...What Did Billionaire Leon Black of Apollo Get for >$50 Million in Fees to Jeffrey Epstein?
The more we learn about Leon Black’s relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the less there is to like.
Read more...Citi’s Recidivist Rule-Breaking and Incompetence Shows Persistence of Too Big/Complex to Fail Problem
Citi’s latest run-in with regulators shows why comparing big banks “too big/complex to fail” problems to those of Big Tech is all wet.
Read more...Pandemic Erects Barriers for Prized Bloc of Voters in Nursing Homes, Senior Facilities
How voters in retirement facilities are being disenfranchised.
Read more...CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost Says She’s Not in Charge and Lies to the Board About Receiving a Warning from the Fair Political Practices Commission
CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost doesn’t even bother to lie well.
Read more...Latest Nobel Prize in Chemistry Demonstrates How the US Patent Office Screws Inventors
A high profile example of the train wreck called the US patent process.
Read more...Brexit: Running the Clock Down
Why Brexit motion should not be confused with progress.
Read more...Right to Repair Redux: Massachusetts Ballot Questions
Massachusetts has another right to repair ballot question, updating its 2012 provision that resulted in landmark 2013 legislation.
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