Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Satyajit Das: The Modern ‘Share the Scraps’ Economy

A clinical look at the extractive behavior that all that share, erm, sharing economy talk obscures.

Easing Capital, Reviving Risk: The Quiet Return of Too Big to Fail

Less capital, more risk. The latest move on big-bank rules suggests that too big to fail was never solved, only deferred.

Manure-to-Energy Project Touted as Climate Fix Emits Thousands of Tons of Methane

Manure digesters for cattle are yet another rentier-enriching climate con.

Tall Buildings Lead to More Compact and Productive Cities

On the benefits of urban density and the role of tall buildings in achieving that result.

Why Chase Taylor Swift? Stop the Corporate Looting That Makes Billionaires

A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.

Is That New Procedure Proven? MedTech Billing Codes and Evidence-Based Medicine

How Category III CPT codes for new procedures became entangled in a politically driven, zero-sum reimbursement game, to patient detriment.

The Hidden Math Behind Rising Electricity Prices

How high construction and financing costs are likely to lead to even bigger electricity price increases than anticipated now.

From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking

Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that falling trust in government and financial institutions puts the U.S. economy in peril

Senate Democrats to Introduce Bill to Limit Private Equity and Big Investor Ownership of Single Family Homes Despite Nearly Zero Impact on Affordabilty

On of Trump affordability ideas, of limits on big investor ownership of single family homes, is moving forward even though it won’t do much.

Rob Urie: No Exit – How Obama’s Bank Bailouts Produced Trump

Profiling the Democratic Party’s doom loop, starting with the Obama “get out of jail free” cards to financiers after the crisis.

Private Equity Is Coming for Your 401(k)

Private equity has its greedy eyes on a huge pot of money: 401(k) funds and their big ecosystem of service providers.

The Finance Curse Is Killing Britain

A well-warranted harsh look at the high cost an overly-large and ever-more-extractive finance sector imposes on society as a whole.

‘This Is Your Money’: Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion

The affordability crisis includes the cost of being cheated, which due to the weakening of the CFPB alone is a handsome sum.

How Vulnerable is the US Electrical Grid to Winter Outages?

A look at the shaky state of the US electric grid and how it came to be in such sorry shape.