Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Market Capitalism

Some musings about late-stage capitalism and what it might take to fix it.

It’s the Index, Stupid! Our New Not-So-Neutral Financial Market Arbiters

An overview of the recent changes in financial markets that have come from the rise of ‘passive’ investing.

The Failure of the Public Health Establishment

Questioning whether the public health response to Covid is really about protecting the public.

‘95% Effective’ May Not Mean What You Think It Means

A detailed discussion of the headline “95% effective” claim for the about-to-be-released Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines.

Medicare Blues

Medicare is not looking good.

Google Monopolizes Ad Markets Through Conduct Lawmakers Prohibit in Other Electronic Trading Markets

How Google’s abuses allow the search giant to dominate online advertising, and what can be done about it.

Judge Slams Apollo for Making Investors Pay for Partner’s Bogus Personal Expenses; Clueless SEC Missed the Abuse, Maybe Because Paul Weiss Misled Them

A federal judge blasts Apollo for making bogus charges to its investors and by implication, law firm Paul Weiss, for whitewashing the abuse.

Privatized Regulators and Corrupt Corporations Caused Deadly Grenfell Tower Fire, Now Threaten Collapse of UK Housing Market through “Cladding Crisis”

Tne Grenfell Tower Inquiry digs up some gruesome corporate dealing, plus the UK’s property market could seize up.

What Is Exploitation in the Context of ‘Modern Slavery’? A Legal Proposal

The absence of clear parameters for determining what counts as exploitation allows states to misclassify victims.

This Is What Can Happen When a Cross-Border Bank Merger Goes Horribly Wrong

As Banco Sabadell’s disastrous acquisition of UK TSB has shown, a bank merger can founder due to botched IT integration.

Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic

Why Covid antigen tests, which are easy to administer and produce results in less than a half hour, are not a magic bullet.

MMT and the EU: A Case for Capturing the Prevailing Narrative

A political economy take on the EU.

Regulating Fintech in Europe: Lessons from the Collapse of Wirecard

Since Fintech companies can be very complex, their oversight requires understanding their business model and combining regulation and supervision based on both entities and activities.

Insurance Companies Flag “Driver Disengagement” as Factor in Robot Car Safety

The irony of automation….