Courts tend to uphold federal and state laws that preempt cities and municipalities from enacting local bans on practices such as fracking.
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Read more...More on Carillion’s bad deeds.
Read more...Some economists are Not Happy to see Intel getting away virtually scot free from its Meltdown and Spectre security train wrecks.
Read more...Why is the US cool about concessions from China that the US has long sought?
Read more...Offshore drilling is dangerous to workers, wildlife, and the public. The Trump Administration is happy to keep it that way to boost profits.
Read more...How digital platform operators like Amazon are undermining democracy.
Read more...Amar Bhide gives a clearly-written, compelling argument against a supposed banking “innovation,” securitization.
Read more...Big Pharma moves in after California legalizes marijuana, as do the unions, and Cory Booker’s surprisingly good decriminalization bill.
Read more...The usual suspects behind climate change are fuelling the plastics crisis and investing to create more waste rather than clean up the mess.
Read more...The Democratic Party must acknowledge that the 2008 crash created conditions for much more progressive policies – but Obama did not step up.
Read more...A high-level talk of the ebb and flow of monopoly power over the past century and what to do about them now.
Read more...What makes a board effective?
Read more...A survey of major financial reform initiatives finds they have been insufficient. That’s not an accident.
Read more...Net Neutrality and the Congressional Review Act, Blackburn’s bill, suits from state AGs Schneiderman and Ferguson, and the Internet Association
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