Brief Comments on the TerraUSD and Tether Stablecoin Breakdowns
Why the two big stablecoin breakdowns of last week, TerraUSD and Tether, look like frauds.
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Calling All CalPERS Long-Term Care Policyholders! Kaiser Health News/New York Times Want to Hear Your Stories
CalPERS long-term care victims, um, policyholders: the press is interested in your plight! Use the link in this post to a NYT contact form.
Read more...Mothers, Lock Up Your Sons So They Don’t Practice “Yield Farming” in Crypto
“You’re just like, well, I’m in the Ponzi business and it’s pretty good.”
Read more...CalPERS Long-Term Care Program Fiasco
Another presentation by unhappy retirees about the CalPERS long-term care train wreck.
Read more...The Washington Quid Pro Quo and a Comment on Roe v. Wade
Has Washington corruption, metastasized in both parties, broken our country for good?
Read more...Medicare Surprise: Drug Plan Prices Touted During Open Enrollment Can Rise Within a Month
Yet another Medicare grift. And there’s little you can do to get out of its way.
Read more...CalPERS Drops Long-Term Care Settlement, Which Was Designed to Suck More Money into Ponzi Scheme and Then Fail
How CalPERS set out to further screw its already abused long-term care policyholders.
Read more...How Outsourcing Threatens America’s Safety
School bus drivers in Bay City, Michigan, have pushed back against mindless outsourcing of their union jobs.
Read more...Apple Announces Unimpressive Self Service Repair Program for Some iPhone Models
After a long wait, Apple finally announced a self service repair program. New right to repair laws are still necessary.
Read more...Jaishankar Calls Out Europe’s Selective Concern on Rules-Based Order
Indian external affairs minister S. Jaishankar shared views on rules-based order with world diplomats at a conference Tuesday in Delhi.
Read more...‘Elon, There Are Rules’: EU Says Twitter Must Comply With New Digital Services Act
One day after Elon Musk took over Twitter, a top European regulator gave the world’s richest man a “reality check” about how they will respond if he loosens the platform’s content moderation policies.
Read more...Right to Repair: Will Corporate Concessions Suffice?
Some companies have apparently embraced a limited right to repair. Federal and state legislation is still necessary.
Read more...CDC Delenda Est
More on why the CDC is beyond redemption.
Read more...CalPERS Consultant Global Governance Advisors Recommends Further Overpaying Grossly Underperforming CalPERS Staff
How a new consultant, Global Governance Advisors, is helping CalPERS executives and staff even better line their pockets.
Read more...As Oil Giants Turn to Bitcoin Mining, Some Spin Burning Fossil Fuels for Cryptocurrency as a Climate Solution
In a pilot project last year, ExxonMobil used up to 18 million cubic feet of gas per month to mine bitcoin in North Dakota.
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