Latest updates on the right to repair, discussing crucial skirmishes in the ongoing war on waste. The Economist recognizes the important issue, and US DHS supports Apple’s spurious, anti-repair claims.
Read more...Grocery chains as yet another example of private equity looting, and what policymakers should do to stop that.
Read more...The remarkable tale of the biggest private equity fund insolvency evah, Abraaj.
Read more...Trump is abandoning coal industry subsidies after running into a buzz saw of opposition.
Read more...Bankruptcy can only restructure debts; it cannot revive Sears’ mutilated brands and bring back mauled customers.
Read more...The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...A critique of the bad-model-induced fear-mongering over Italy’s proposed budget deficits
Read more...Another ugly but far-from-secret element of what was in store with a Glorious Brexit.
Read more...Once again, some Uber and Lyft data that ought to generate more questions instead gets a free pass from the press.
Read more...Customers of three major UK banks were stymied by online banking problems Friday, when multiple systems crashed, limiting access to their accounts. Another installment in the ongoing war on cash.
Read more...SEC co-director of enforcement Stephanie Avakian delivered a speech in Dallas last week defending the agency’s enforcement record, as the number of cases brought and amount of fines collected both continue to drop.
Read more...Medical bills are so out of hand that despite the power of the health industry lobbyists, some Senators are taking on the worst abuses.
Read more...A secret corporate arbitration panel in the Hague ruled that Ecuadorean courts’ $9.5 billion judgement against Chevron for environmental damages is illegal and should not be enforced. An expert argues that the decision is a travesty.
Read more...Marcie Frost’s track record as CEO of CalPeRS is not a pretty one.
Read more...A data dive shows that the student loan business is at least as bad as you think it is.
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