A Wall Street Journal expose of PG&E’s willful failure to maintain its transmission lines, directly tied to California’s most lethal fire, led a judge to demand answers.
Read more...Developing countries are refusing to accept shipments of waste for recycling; China’s new rules on scrap metal may disrupt the worldwide market for such recycling.
Read more...The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf has a go at Donald Trump, but manages to score an own goal as far as his profession is concerned.
Read more...Shares of one fund plunged 22% on Friday. Other funds under pressure, raising serious questions about just how liquid “equity funds” in the UK are.
Read more...A hard look at Deutsche’s restructuring plan reveals a lot not to like
Read more...The beginning of an end for Deutsche Bank.
Read more...Looking for cheery news on Brexit? You’ll have to look awfully hard.
Read more...G20 issues Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, a voluntary plastic management plan so inadequate the plastic industry endorsed it immediately.
Read more...Using the UK’s lax corporate transparency and accountability regime, international businesses can, in effect, mask interests and ownership at home.
Read more...Like Icarus, the social media monopoly is flying too close to the sun and generating much regulatory heat, which could eventually lead to its downfall.
Read more...Rather than a unified mass transition out of London to another singular hub, the financial industry is using Brexit as an opportunity to diversify. And lawyers are moving to Dublin.
Read more...Disturbing.
Read more...Abuses like raw sewage on beaches and faking regulatory filings make a U.K. water utility a new low in privatization scandals.
Read more...Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists, especially when they can influence our elections and control how Americans receive information.
Read more...The mythology of shareholder capitalism does not stand up to scrutiny.
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