California Supreme Court Ruling Delivers Big Blow to Gig Economy Companies
Many gig economy firms will have to classify a big swathe of their workers as employees or radically change their business models.
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5 Policies That Could Improve Housing for the Renting Generation
Housing has become a more divisive issue than ever, as rising real estate costs and less job stability make buying a house both harder and more fraught. Renters need better protections, but how to get there?
Read more...Bank Watch: Wells Fargo Fined $1 Billion
The OCC and CFPB imposed $1 billion in fines on Wells Fargo Friday, continuing the kind and gentle treatment of bank transgressions pioneered by the previous administration.
Read more...EU (Finally) Slaps Down UK on Fantasy Irish Border Solutions
More Brexit bad news, even though the UK should not be surprised.
Read more...When Criminal Justice and Environmental Justice Collide
Environmental protestors,like other protestors, run the risk of facing jail time. That exposure is heightened by the fact that “out” groups have more reason to be demanding change.
Read more...Another Big Retailer Gets Liquidated
Retailers in bankruptcy are notoriously hard to restructure.
Read more...CalPERS Board Member Margaret Brown Still Illegally Locked Out, Given Only Highly Restricted Access to Transcripts
CalPERS doubles down on its campaign against reform-minded board member Margaret Brown.
Read more...CalPERS’ Priya Mathur Opens, Reads, Even Answers Mail of Board Member Margaret Brown, Denies Her Access to Transcripts of Past Meetings.
Yet more lawless behavior at CalPERS.
Read more...Opioid Lawsuits: DoJ Seeks to Participate in Settlement Talks
Federal District Judge Dan Polster pushes parties to the litigation and others concerned to craft a comprehensive settlement to the opioid crisis; attorney general Jeff Sessions’ DoJ seems more interested in fence sitting that rolling up its sleeves.
Read more...Confidential Shell Oil Report Prompts Lawsuit: They Knew About Climate Change Decades Ago
RNN interview with Carol Muffett discussing what Royal Dutch Shell knew about fossil fuel driving climate change and when they knew, as confirmed in a Confidential 1986 Report published last week by a Dutch source. Let the lawsuits proceed.
Read more...Bay Hills Sues Kentucky Retirement Systems for Invoking Its Contractual Right to Dissolve Fund
Kentucky Retirement Systems is in the midst of another important alternative investments legal contest.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fourteen: The New Yorker Lays Out the Template for Pro-Uber Propaganda
Dissecting the New Yorker’s fawning profile of new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
Read more...Current Kentucky Retirement Systems Trustees Considering Throwing Predecessors Under the Bus to Get Blackstone and KKR
Is a pension fund management revolution brewing in what would seem to be the most unlikely place, that hotbed of corruption, the Kentucky Retirement Systems?
Read more...Why Not to Expect Much from US Trade Talks With China
Why the Trump trade threats towards China aren’t likely to be terribly productive.
Read more...Winners and Losers as PE Firm Cerberus’s Remington “Rollup” Collapses into Bankruptcy
Who are the bagholders in the Remington bankruptcy?
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