Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

In Rural America, Right-to-Repair Laws Are the Leading Edge of a Pushback Against Growing Corporate Power

After years of efforts to advance right-to-repair rules, farmers are starting to get traction.

New Notes on Global Warming

Global warming is accelerating faster than what our best minds are planning for, if indeed they’re planning at all.

The Government Makes a Profit on Defaulted Student Loans

The Federal government’s unheard of profits on defaulted student loans confirms that the scheme is predatory. And defaults are set to rise.

Reversing 30 Years of Damage from the Clintons, the DOJ Closes A Price-Fixing Loophole Wide Enough to Drive a Truck Through

Why are you paying so much for everything? DOJ admits that decades-old carveout allowed even non concentrated industries to effectively build cartels to coordinate prices and wages

Amid Ohio Nightmare, Rail Worker Alliance Urges All of Labor to Back Railroad Nationalization

Rather than settle for narrow reforms, rail workers are pushing for public ownership of the US railroad system, which is commonplace throughout much of the world.

Occupy the SEC Questions Unduly Generous Treatment of Disclosures by Corporate Beneficial Owners, aka Potential Tax Evaders

Occupy the SEC objects to portions of supposed corporate transparency regulation that hide more than is called for.

The Gas Stove Panic

The recent Biden campaign to restrict gas stove in homes is decidely inorganic. What might be behind it?

How Precision Scheduled Railroading at Norfolk Southern Caused a Toxic Vinyl Chloride Mushroom Cloud Over East Palestine, Ohio

I certainly hope Norfolk Southern’s owners are happy!

Carbon Capture Project Is ‘Band-Aid’ to Greenwash $10 Billion LNG Plant, Locals Say

Texas community fights to save its coastline as the developers of Rio Grande LNG reassure investors over climate impact.

An Old, Small Opening Salvo v Russia? 2013 Bank Bail-In “increasingly has the smell of a proxy Germany v. Russia struggle through Cyprus”

A closer look at an old Eurozone banking crisis shows how Cyprus was (at least to a degree) used to get at Russia.

The Latest Anti-Covid Nasal Spray Vaccine Science

At long last we understand Covid’s mechanism of infection; it remains only to fund the nasal vaccine efforts to leverage our understanding.

Natural Gas Futures in Europe Plunge 15% Today, Down 84% from Crazy Spike

Gas swan dive due to LNG glut in China?

Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

Following complaints, Oregon’s Public Utility Commission is investigating NW Natural’s meter testing program and billing practices.