Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Short-Term Rentals and the Housing Market: Evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles

Confirming Airbnb’s effects on rentals and home prices.

Waste Watch: UK Plan Opts for ‘Polluter Pays’ Approach

UK announces long awaited waste plan, which crucially, embraces the ‘polluter pays’ principle. It’s a step forward, despite at least three major flaws.

COP24: Paris Agreement Rulebook ‘Does Not Deliver What The World Needs’ on Climate Change

Summary of the depressing lack of progress at the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland, where the participants punted on agreeing to take significant action to confront climate change.

Bill Black: Countering Chinese Accounting Control Fraud and Predation Against U.S. Investors

Bipartisan failure of securities regulators allows the China Hustle of accounting control fraud to fleece US investors in Chinese companies.

Sustainable Fashion: Reduce, Reuse, Exchange

Some short notes on recent efforts to improve the sustainability of the notoriously wasteful fashion industry – by reusing trash as treasure, embracing the circular economy, and reusing plastic harvested from the sea.

The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (I)

Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??

War on Cash: State and City Governments Push Back

State and local governments are pushing back against cashless businesses, which exclude those who prefer to use or must pay with cash.

Major Health Study Shows Benefits of Combating Climate Change

The medical journal The Lancet published a new report on the association between human health and climate change.

Trump Models His War on Bank Regulators on Bill Clinton and W’s Disastrous Wars

Why “partner” is the last word you want to hear from the mouth of a bank regulator.

Brexit: May’s Handbag

Big Brexit events of the week are underway, starting with the ECJ ruling on unilateral reversal of an Article 50 notice.

As Global Climate Talks Proceed, Trump EPA Opts to Weaken Coal Emissions Standards

While parties to the 2015 Paris Accord conduct negotiations in Katowice, Poland, the EPA has opted to weaken coal emission standards promulgated during the administration of Trump’s predecessor.

Jane Sanders: Climate Crisis Critical Issue in 2020 Elections

In this Real News Network interview, Jane Sanders discusses the climate crisis and tells Paul Jay that voters shouldn’t support candidates who claim to be progressive, but don’t prioritize the fight against fossil fuel interests.

Bill Black: Who Said This? A Bank Fraud Quiz

Testing your knowledge of which top Federal officials have been tough and lax on bank fraud.

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Bitcoin Wallets For First Time

The long arm of US law reaches into bitcoin wallets.

Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch

Two-week UN climate change summit kicks off in Poland, to flesh out details of the 2015 Paris Accord. Politicians have dithered about what action to take, in part diverted by the disinformation spread by fossil fuel companies.