Kamala Harris Tells Big Lie: That 2012 Mortgage Settlement Was a Good Deal for Homeowners
Kamala Harris’ supposed big accomplishment, of getting California a better deal in the 2012 mortgage settlement, isn’t anything to boast about.
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Here’s What a Real Strike Looks Like: 150 Million Say No to Despotism in India
The Modi government is trying to stare down large-scale strikes against its labor “reforms” in India.
Read more...Health Insurer Greed or Desperation? An Odd Data Point From Cigna
Cigna looks way too eager to squeeze money from customers.
Read more...The Mysteries Surrounding Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, the Sackler Family’s Second Opioid Company
The Sackler family has managed to hide its ownership of a drug company with an even bigger share of the US opioid market than Purdue Pharma.
Read more...Another Win for Fossil Fuels: EPA to Weaken Basis for Calculating Mercury and Future Environmental Standards
At the behest of fossil fuel interests, Trump’s EPA seeks to change the way of calculating future benefits of environmental rules and thus undermines 2011 mercury emissions standards — even though power plants have already invested to comply with the rules.
Read more...CalPERS’ Private Equity “Fire, Aim, Ready”: Railroading Board by Screening Candidates Before Scheme Approved; Seeking to be Victimized Again by Silver Lake Partners
Another CalPERS PR gambit backfires, revealing yet more problems with CalPERS private equity scheme.
Read more...PG&E Could Face Murder Charges for California’s Wildfires
Will PG&E finally get its just deserts? And even if that were to happen, what would that look like?
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part III – Regulation
Andrew Dittmer continues his series on the world that some conservative libertarian thinkers would like to establish.
Read more...“Summer” Rerun: Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part II – The Strategy
The not-favorable libertarian view of democracy.
Read more...“Summer” Rerun: Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part I –The Vision
A dialogue about how a libertarian society would work.
Read more...Advertising Trade Association Presses for Federal Data Privacy Regulation
Advertising trade group calls for federal data privac regulationy, in an obvious attempt bet that Washington won’t toughen standards nearly as much as California has done and other states are also considering.
Read more...Brexit: “Managed No Deal” and Referendum Unicorns Dispatched, but How Long Before Anyone Notices?
More seemingly bad news for the UK on the Brexit front…save none of this should come as news.
Read more...The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (I)
Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??
Read more...Trump Models His War on Bank Regulators on Bill Clinton and W’s Disastrous Wars
Why “partner” is the last word you want to hear from the mouth of a bank regulator.
Read more...Our New York Magazine Article: “‘Alpha Wolves in the Henhouse’: California’s Multibillion-Dollar Private-Equity Boondoggle”
Putting CalPERS under the hot lights for its questionable private equity plans.
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