More and More Crypto Crashing and Burning as DeFi (Decentralized Finance) Misbehaves
The great crypto unwind is underway, bringing to light even more bad practices than you likely knew about.
Read more...Category Archives: Regulations and regulators
Can the Fed Kill This Inflation Without Killing Too Many Other Things First?
Why having central banks as the inflation shock troops is not such a hot idea.
Read more...Waste Watch: Colorado and New York Pass Right to Repair Measures
Two states, New York and Colorado, recently passed right to repair measures, covering digital electronics equipment and power wheelchairs.
Read more...As U.S. LNG Expands in Europe, a Hidden Threat Grows
Researchers and experts are warning about the danger of naturally occurring radiation in LNG to workers and communities in the US and Europe
Read more...California Wants to Slash Insulin Prices by Becoming a Drugmaker. Can it Succeed?
The fact that California is having to consider making insulin to get around price grifing show the depth of disease in our health care system.
Read more...A Small Win Out of Our Post on CalPERS’ Covid Regulation-Breaking and (Yet Again) Fibbing
Our warning about a big Covid outbreak at CalPERS may not have produced any changs there, but it did lead other state agencies to shape up.
Read more...“One Reason Republican Lies About the Climate Crisis Work”
Republicans use the fact that tackling climate change will impose costs as a reason not to go there, while Dems largely finesse the issue.
Read more...Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why Big Tech practices are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in.
Read more...CalPERS Staff in Fury Over Covid Negligence, Regulation-Breaking Risking Staff, Seniors, and Day-Care Children; CalPERS Lies About Cases and Lack of Compliance
CalPERS has risen from being a risk to merely to the financial health of beneficiaries and taxpayers to being a bona fide health hazard.
Read more...NY Spurns Recycling Fairy, and Instead Considers New Extended Producer Responsibility Requirements
NY is poised to say no to plastics? Alas, no, but the state is mulling extended producer responsibility measures, to place the onus for waste management on plastics pushers rather than on consumers.
Read more...‘Public Bank’ Bill Blocked From State Senate Vote After Industry Pushback
Why is a modest public bank plan for New York going nowhere?
Read more...Book Review: An Urgent Plea to Save the World’s Megaforests
In “Ever Green,” two conservationists present a surprisingly hopeful look at the five five remaining megaforests.
Read more...Department of Justice to Saddle Up Against Private Equity Consolidation/Monopolization Plays. Will It Work?
The Department of Justice says it is taking aim at private equity. Will it hit any targets?
Read more...How America Can Stop Violence Against Health Care Workers
Congess is rousing itself to make health care employers Do Something to protect staff from violence….but is the legislation adequate?
Read more...How the Options Tail Has Come to Wag the Market Dog: A Simple English Language Explanation of How Structural Changes in the Stock Markets Contribute to Whipsaw Movements in Prices
Why the use of options may be the risk bomb that blows a big hole in our financial system.
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