Bezos admits he and other squillionaires didn’t do the “heavy lifting” of building the infrastructure on which tech enterprises depend….yet tries to depict a space venture as a greenfield project. Help me.
Read more...More proof that letting banks have their way is not such a good idea…at least for non-financiers.
Read more...Yves here. I am sure readers have many stories of their own from personal or family experience about how the health insurance industry shamefully goes into denial and delay mode with cancer patients. I know of all of one person who didn’t have a horrible time, but even then, as a widowed middle aged woman […]
Read more...More proof (as if you needed it) that CalPERS is clueless.
Read more...Comprehensive overview of eight state-level initiatives promoted by oil and gas industry lobbyists to criminalize pipeline protests.
Read more...Shredding bad excuses for a bad health care system.
Read more...Why has Susan Strange been reputationally short changed as an expert in financial instability?
Read more...It has taken three posts to unpack all the lies that John Cole told CalPERS’ board in December about its new private equity scheme.
Read more...It is hard to see how Uber’s IPO story will hold up to scrutiny, particularly at a planned valuation of $120 billion.
Read more...How an “all payer” program could be a big and politically palatable step towards fixing America’s broken health care system.
Read more...How the Big 4 accountants cemented their position and why that matters.
Read more...New rules just came into effect in India that force Amazon to remove products for sale through vendors in which they have an equity stake, meaning Amazon must choose between whether it wants to control the platform, or sell its products. It cannot do both.
Read more...The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent coverage on the fracking beat for DeSmog Blog.
Read more...Cryptocurrency is more vulnerable to theft and loss than most of its fans want to believe.
Read more...More on how CalPERS will get its pockets picked in its newfangled private equity scheme.
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