Wolf Richter: Then Why Is Anyone STILL on Facebook?
If you’ve created an account, you can never escape Facebook. But you can at least stop making things worse for yourself.
Read more...Category Archives: Regulations and regulators
Whistleblower Woes: Retaliation
SEC makes record whistleblower award, while meanwhile an Ethics and Compliance Initiative survey reports retaliation rates for reporting of corporate misconduct have doubled.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Why Climate Activists Must Include Supply-Side Restrictions in Their Recommended Policy Mix
Another important, indeed necessary, policy measure in the climate change toolkit.
Read more...“Welcome to Hell”: Barcelona Taxi Drivers Prepare for Uber’s Return
Uber faces a rumble from Barcelona’s taxi drivers.
Read more...Is Verizon Violating Its Copper Network Settlement Already?
A series of awfully convenient outages in Manhattan on Verizon’s DSL service raise the question of whether Verizon is gaming its just-inked settlement.
Read more...Hidden History of How US Corporations Gained Legal Personhood and Civil Rights
Interview with Adam Winkler about his book, We The Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. The consequences of this victory skew US politics to benefit corporations at the expense of the public good.
Read more...Fifth Circuit Axes Fiduciary Rule: Over to the SEC
A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last week axed the fiduciary rule– which the Trump Labor Department had delayed implementing. Now what? It’s over to the SEC.
Read more...How Well Does Financial Regulation Work?
Sadly, reactive regulations don’t have a great track record.
Read more...Jay Clayton’s SEC Lets Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Get Away With Brazen Fraud
The SEC did Elizabeth Holmes a monster favor with its pathetic settlement over her “massive” Theranos fraud.
Read more...Senate Expands ‘Lobbyist Bill’ to Deregulate Real Estate
Why the plan to weaken regulation of commercial real estate lending isn’t such a hot idea.
Read more...Cryptocurrencies as Prosecution Futures: Judge Rules Manipulators Can Go to Jail
The Wild West of cryptocurrencies just got a little less fun.
Read more...Meet the Democrats’ ‘Dirty Dozen’ Working to Gut Financial Reforms
Yet again, the Democrats sell out voters to moneyed backers, this time ones in the banking industry.
Read more...Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: How WTO Retaliation Typically Works
A review of some of the permitted counter-moves under WTO rules if Trump imposes tariffs.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Hyping Amazon Banking: “Ridiculous, Ridiculous, Ridiculous”
The Wall Street Journal gets itself duped into publishing some particularly flaky, um, nebulous, um, aspirational Amazon banking ideas.
Read more...Brexit-Induced Pillaging of the UK Starts: US Fleecing UK on Must-Have Air Transport Pact
Yet another Brexit shoe is about to drop….this one on the aviation front.
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