Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

New Lawsuit Challenges ‘Fast-Track’ Permits Used for Oil and Gas Pipelines Nationwide

For nearly a decade, pipeline companies have relied on the contested Nationwide Permit 12 when their projects cross waterbodies in the U.S.

Fed Shamelessly Gives Warnings of Vague and Ominous Risks While Saying Don’t Expect Us to Do Anything About It

The Fed tells the world: Don’t expect us to be ready for the next financial crisis. It’s just too hard.

Reducing Methane Is Crucial for Protecting Climate and Health, and It Can Pay for Itself – Yet Emissions Are Still Rising Fast, A New UN Report Warns

After a long period of fracking boosterism in the US, reducing methane emissions is finally getting the attention it warrants.

‘Cry No Tears for These Death Profiteers’: Pharma Stocks Plunge as Biden Backs Vaccine Patent Waiver

Biden is suddenly backing a patent waiver for foreign manufacture of Covid vaccines. But do the mechanics make this a headfake?

California Bill Seeks to Prevent Hospital Administrators from Practicing Medicine Without a License

An important vehicle for doctors to take back control by keeping administrators from playing at medicine has oddly stayed under the radar.

Abolish the OCC

The idea of getting rid of a hopelessly captured and largely redundant bank regulator, the OCC, is gaining support.

The Ugly Truth About Renewable Power

Questions about how to make intermittent renewable energy production work for users conditioned to always-here power.

How America Can Curb the Epidemic of Violence Against Health Care Workers

Health care staffers are on the receiving end of violence more often than you might think, yet perilous little is done to protect them.

What is the Bullshit Economy?

Establishing some first principles of the bullshit economy.

Michael Hudson Asks Our Readers: If Democracy Winds Up Creating Financial Dominance, What Do We Call China?

Michael Hudson seeks reader input on what to call modern governments not run by traditional nobles or financial interests.

FTC, Where Art Thou?: Appliance Manufacturers Routinely Invalidate Warranties if Customers Use Third-Party Repair Services

Appliance manufacturers say their waranties are voided if consumers use third-party repair servces, despite contrary FTC guidelines.

New York Joins Pot Party

New York becomes the fifteenth state to legalise possession of marijuana for those over the age of twenty-one.

Preparing for a Wave of Non-Performing Loans: Are Banks at Risk?

On a aggregate basis, EU banks appear to have enough capital to weather even a bad Covid storm. A country-by-country look tells another story.

Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.

History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy.

We Have to Consign the Era of Financial Engineering to History

Financial legerdemain is still very much with us, despite the Big One in 2008 and continuing distortions confirming its high cost.