The first of a two-part series describing the process and substance with which CalPERS staff is trying to engineer a de facto resignation of its board.
Read more...Just when you think CalPERS can’t sink any lower, it manages to outdo itself, this time, with an illegal governance monstrosity masquerading a code of conduct.
Read more...Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to. Shopping sites use them a lot, and the bigger the site, the more likely.
Read more...The World Bank wants to double down on financial gimmickry rather than develop the public health infrastructure to combat pandemics.
Read more...Don’t trust business listings in Google Maps. They’re can be fraudulent, even dangerous.
Read more...Apple continues to crapify its products, in ways intended to thwart the ability of their owners to use third party services to repair their devices.
Read more...The poor economics of fracking may finally be coming home to roost.
Read more...A PR campaign presenting the consumer fraud known as surprise billing as beneficial doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Read more...Apollo looks unduly anxious.
Read more...Estimating the scope of corruption in the college admissions process.
Read more...A personal retrospective on money in US politics.
Read more...Military contractors have used the threat of US job cuts to extract more dough from American taxpayers….and then cut US jobs.
Read more...Democratic Party operatives would have voters focus on Trump, as opposed to the batttle within their party over the Sanders-led effort to implement policies that serve Americans broadly, not the top 10% .
Read more...Sanders puts the hot lights on the disgrace of insulin prices in the US.
Read more...Latest DeSmogBlog coverage of fracking follies: the still unprofitable industry turns to pension funds and private equity for capital.
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