CFPB Issues Payday Lending Rule: Will it Hold, as the Empire Will Strike Back
How big a victory is the CFPB’s new payday lending rule for consumers of financial services? And will it hold– as the industry fights back.
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Uber Board Members Kiss and Make Up (for Now), but Long-Term Problems Remain
Uber may have bought itself more time with a conditional pact among its big shareholders, but it hasn’t solved its fundamental problems.
Read more...Silicon Valley Rejects Shareholder Value Theory: Disrupting the IPO
Silicon Valley has an alternative to the IPO…with a 20% haircut compared to Wall Street’s 7%. Should you hang on to your wallet?
Read more...Toys R Us: Another Private Equity Casualty
What killed Toys R US? Amazon,Walmart? The numbers say the company’s yet the latest in a string of retail casualties to private equity greed.
Read more...CalPERS Illegally Trying to Hide Its Scheming to Hand Over Private Equity to BlackRock
oard candidate Margaret Brown objects to CalPERS’ illegal secret discussions, most importantly, of outsourcing private equity to BlackRock.
Read more...More Signs of Private Equity Market Frenzy: Firms Selling Stakes
Yet more evidence that the private equity market is overheated.
Read more...CalPERS Goes for Secrecy Over Returns; Exploring Paying Additional Layer of Private Equity Fees by Outsourcing to BlackRock
CalPERS is exploring having BlackRock hide its private equity problems under a costly rug.
Read more...Why Public Company Ownership Is Irrelevant to Monopolies
Why the argument that public company ownership contributes to monopoly power is wrong-headed.
Read more...New York Times Claims Bidders Circling Uber….But How Serious Is This, Really?
The Uber soap opera continues, and the New York Times is doing its part by applying lots of porcine maquillage.
Read more...CalPERS CIO Ted Eliopoulos Handing Off Most of His Job Duties. So Why Isn’t He Taking a $500,000 Pay Cut?
In a remarkably cheeky move, CalPERS CIO Ted Eliopoulos is fobbing off his main job duties on a subordinate. Will the sleepy board react?
Read more...Uber: “Battle to the Death” in Benchmark/Kalanick Power Struggle
The fight over Uber would normally be mistaken for a Punch and Judy show if there weren’t so much money at stake.
Read more...Public Pension Funds Regain Some Lost Ground in a Good Year, But CalPERS Lags Peers
CalPERS again falls short for its beneficiaries and California taxpayers.
Read more...Private Equity Flouts State Regulations by Buying Medical Practices
State regulators have ignored private equity firms buying medical practices when many states bar non-MDs from owing them.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Financial Firm Fines Are Way Down Under Trump
The latest sighting on how financial firms are getting off easy, yet have the bad taste to complain about their paltry punishments.
Read more...Fake Unicorns: Study Finds Average 49% Valuation Overstatement; Over Half Lose “Unicorn” Status When Corrected
Investors beware! A large scale study found that every unicorn it looked at was overvalued, on average to a significant degree.
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