EU Competition Commissioner Vestager Targets Unaccountable Facebook Algos as Threat at Launch of New “Pro-Democracy” Movement
Facebook is finally getting some long overdue, serious pushback.
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How Global Audit Firms Are Using Their Lobbying Clout to Dilute Sarbanes-Oxley Reforms
Accounting firms have specific reasons to be nervous about Sarbanes-Oxley, hence their eagerness to weaken it.
Read more...Business Chafes at Uncertainty Created by Unfilled Seats on Regulatory Commissions
Failure to fill chairs at regulatory commissions is stymieing their activities, creating regulatory uncertainty and vexing business.
Read more...Revolving Door Continues to Swing: Obama Alumini Land on Their Feet
Obama administration lawyers parlay expertise into lucrative private sector positions, taking advantage of the free-swinging revolving door.
Read more...Unsafe at Any Speed Redux: Pinto and Takata Recalls Compared
Pathetic pace of recall of vehicles with defective airbags shows the scant progress made since the first response to Unsafe at Any Speed.
Read more...Why International Financial Crises?
Despite the high cost of financial crises, the world seems no closer to making needed reforms.
Read more...Supreme Court Lexmark Patent Decision A Win for State Right to Repair Legislation
Interprets patent exhaustion doctrine to prevent patent holders from imposing use and sale restrictions; implicitly endorses repair.
Read more...Two Questions for the Next SEC Director of Enforcement
What is the next SEC director of enforcement’s position on no admit/no deny settlements? Would targeting individuals increase accountability?
Read more...Fashion Industry Dogged By Sustainability Concerns
Sustainability concerns dog the fashion industry. Millennials rank sustainability high in their buying choices.
Read more...New York Attorney General: Feds Must Address Bakken Crude Oil Bomb Trains. Feds: Maybe Later?
Both parties share credit for the continued failure to impose limits on the volatility of crude oil transported by rail.
Read more...Europe’s Faustian Bargain with Big Finance
An overview of the cost of Europe’s failure to rein in its financial institutions and the options for bank and Eurozone reform.
Read more...The White House Flouts Ethics Rules
Even though the Trump Administration is far from a model of probity, it is managing to find new ways to skirt ethics rules.
Read more...Climate Change: What Follows as US Surrenders Global Leadership Role?
Shell CEO calls on Trump not to renounce Paris climate accord, but if the US does, other efforts- e.g. Chinese, Indian– will loom larger.
Read more...Apple Spends Big to Thwart Right to Repair in New York and Elsewhere
Apple spends big to thwart right to repair, while efforts to expand into to India meet mixed results and fail to snare concessions as sought.
Read more...The Bank Competition Myth
Why banks should not be considered to be private enterprises.
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