Marketing Is the Original Behavioral Economics
Showing that behavioral economics is just marketing wine in new bottles.
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Ohio House Speaker Arrested in Alleged $60 Million Racketeering, Bribery, Money Laundering Scheme; A Window Into Politics in America
Ohio’s biggest political corruption case is a doozy, with riveting racketeering charges and lots of dirty tricks.
Read more...Boeing 737 Max Ungrounding Pushed Back Again; WSJ Sources Say Early 2021
Moar bad news for the 737 Max.
Read more...Misunderstanding Public Pension Fund Implications of Thole v. US Bank and Mayberry v. KKR
How some commentators are misreading two recent court cases on pensions: Thole v. US Bank and Mayberry v. KKR.
Read more...New Study Slams Public Pension Funds’ Alternative Investments as Drag on Performance, Identifies CalPERS as One of the Worst “Negative Alphas”; Shows Folly of CalPERS’ Desperate Plan to Increase Private Equity and Debt and Go Bigger Using Leverage
A new paper shows that public pension fund investment in “alts” like real estate and private equity hurt returns and failed to lower risk.
Read more...COVID-19 Mistakes to Avoid: Don’t Conflate Contact Tracing with Contact Tracing By App
Big Tech and Big Pharma each has a dog in the COVID-19 fight and wish to replace what has worked before and is working now with technofixes.
Read more...Let the Predation Begin! CFPB Rolls Back Obama-Era Payday Loan Protections
Payday loan abuses are baaack, thanks to a full bore lobbying effort.
Read more...Private Equity and the Pandemic: Brace for Impact…Investing (Part II)
Private equity profiteering in prisions and education demonstrates why their enthusiasm for socially responsible investing is a con.
Read more...Will the E-Money Boom Make the UK a Hub of Money Laundering?
Quelle suprise! E-money is facilitating financial fraud. And the UK’s FCA is unduly accommodating.
Read more...Private Equity and the Pandemic: Brace for Impact…Investing
Private equity wants investors to believe that it can do good. The damage it has done through its health care industry profiteering says otherwise.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Collateralizing Frequent Flyer Programs Help Save the US Airlines?
Dissecting the latest airline gimmick to separate investors from their money: pledging their frequent flyer programs.
Read more...“A Scandal’: Contracts Show Trump Giving Big Pharma Free Rein to Price Gouge Taxpayer-Funded Coronavirus Drugs
Drug price gouging is so widespread in the US that it seems unlikely that there will be enough outrage to limit coronavirus drug price gouging.
Read more...Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic
A hard look at charter school misleading ads, racial segregation, and dodgy economics.
Read more...How Much More Cash Can Uber Burn?
Moar Uber wheel-spinning.
Read more...The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly About the Fed’s New Credit Allocation Policy
Why using credit as an economic remedy evenutally does more harm than good.
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