SEC Investigating Possible Block Trading Abuses at Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Other Big Players
Mirabile dictu! More seriousness from the SEC!
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More Home Surveillance Coming Your Way, Courtesy Bosch and the Internet of Things
Bosch brings you Stasi at home….and the worst is, too many people will happily pay for more surveillance.
Read more...NYT Recognizes “That Organic Cotton T-Shirt May Not Be as Organic as You Think”
Could a well-structured class action lawsuit either prod fashion companies to build verifiable organic cotton supply chains, or abandon their claims that they’re selling organic cotton?
Read more...On-Time Rent Payments Sag Amid Massive Spike in Rents
Rents are up a lot in most places in the US of any consequence. Not all tenants are keeping pace.
Read more...What Are Taxpayers Spending for Those ‘Free’ Covid Tests? The Government Won’t Say.
The officialdom is not giving straight answers to simple questions about how much it spent procuring those “free” Covid tests.
Read more...Update: Supreme Court to Weigh EPA Authority on Greenhouse Pollutants
Additional briefs shed light on possible outcomes of major Supreme Court case scheduled for oral arguments this month.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Nine: Despite Massive Price Increases Uber Losses Top $31 Billion
Uber burns through yet more cash, but analysts and reporters fail to question its extremely misleading financials.
Read more...Resource Limits to American Capitalism & The Predator State Today
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of the US from industrialism to his so-called predator state: finance-led, military-centered corporatism
Read more...Ocean Summit Launches Today in France
The Ocean Summit launches today in France, a long overdue effort to grapple with marine regulatory issues, including climate change and plastics pollution.
Read more...Occupy the SEC to DoJ: Act on Congressional Mandate, Quit Rubber Stamping Bank Mergers
Occupy the SEC is back! The small group of lawyers, bank compliance experts, and financial services industry product specialists generated an outside reputation with its highly praised, over 300 page comment letter on Dodd Frank. As Law.com wrote: In detailing how they believe the Volcker Rule can be strengthened, Occupy the SEC has written what […]
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Covid Burden Falling Hardest on Low Income Workers…But Don’t Expect Any Help
Don’t get us wrong. We really like EPI. But a new piece on Covid’s impact on low income workers has good analysis and out of date proposals.
Read more...‘Keep Pushing’: Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading
Will Congress move to ban its members from trading shares of stock while they’re in office?
Read more...Ending Drug Price Gouging: A Regulatory Framework for Pricing of Medicine Innovation
regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development.
Read more...What Happens If a Cryptocurrency Exchange Files for Bankruptcy?
Law professor Adam Levitin explains why cyptocurrency exchange customers face a world of hurt if their exchange fails.
Read more...Nuclear Power Is Clean, Safe and Cheap. We Need It to Stop Global Heating
Climate activist: The arguments made against nuclear power today are the same as I was making a decade ago, and I was wrong.
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