Removing Mini-Shampoos from Hotel Rooms Won’t Save the Environment
Why most corporate pro-environment measures are mere gestures.
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A Brush With A Notorious Cat, My Rabies Education And The Big Bill That Followed
A rabies ripoff.
Read more...Shale Bleeds Cash Despite Best Quarter In Years
Quelle surprise! The shale industry is still a big loser.
Read more...CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: Underhanded, Dishonest Plans to Cut Investment Meetings of Poorly Performing Fund by More Than 50%, Shrink Investment Committee
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...CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: “Attempted Coup” via Unconstitutional, Fiduciary-Duty-Violating “Code of Conduct”
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...Phishing Equilibria in E-Commerce: Shopping Sites and Dark Patterns
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...Even Larry Summers Denounces World Bank’s “PEF” Ebola Bonds That Enriched Investors at Expense of the Sick in the Congo
The World Bank wants to double down on financial gimmickry rather than develop the public health infrastructure to combat pandemics.
Read more...Phishing Equilibria in Silicon Valley: Google Maps and Fraud
Don’t trust business listings in Google Maps. They’re can be fraudulent, even dangerous.
Read more...Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup
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...Bleak Financial Outlook for US Fracking Industry
The poor economics of fracking may finally be coming home to roost.
Read more...Doctors Argue Plans To Remedy Surprise Medical Bills Will ‘Shred’ The Safety Net
A PR campaign presenting the consumer fraud known as surprise billing as beneficial doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Read more...Apollo Doth Protest Too Much: Our Leon Black-Jeff Epstein Post Elicits Intervention by Apollo’s Flack
Apollo looks unduly anxious.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: A Second Look at the College Admissions Scandals
Estimating the scope of corruption in the college admissions process.
Read more...Money Is Still King of the Hill And We Are All the Poorer for It: A Glance Back, and Forward
A personal retrospective on money in US politics.
Read more...The Military-Industrial Jobs Scam
Military contractors have used the threat of US job cuts to extract more dough from American taxpayers….and then cut US jobs.
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