Amazon, City Killer?
The unseemly bidding war to have the opportunity to have Amazon ruin your city moves to its finalist phase.
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Draghi’s Membership in Murky G30 Financial Group Under Fire
An official EU compliant about ECB chairman Mario Draghi puts the spotlight on a shadowy influence operation.
Read more...SEC Stymies Plans to Offer Bitcoin Funds Anytime Soon
SEC staff letter raises detailed concerns about offering products based on bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to retail investors.
Read more...Does Bitcoin Have a Future?
Lambert here: Prosecution futures, as Yves has always said. By Marshall Auerback, a market analyst and Research Associate at the Levy Institute. Originally published at Alternet. Is the bitcoin craze another in a series of history’s most infamous bubbles, or is it a genuine harbinger of a new global financial architecture? In spite of recent […]
Read more...Carillion Must Now Also Face Justice for Blacklisting Trade Unionists
More on Carillion’s bad deeds.
Read more...Lawsuit Against Blackstone, KKR/Prisma, PAAMCO, Kentucky Retirement System, and Others Has Major Implications for Public Pension Funds
A case filed at the end of last year, Mayberry v. KKR, hasn’t gotten the attention it warrants. The suit, which we’ve embedded at the end of this post, was filed on behalf of the beneficiaries of Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS), the state’s public pension fund and its taxpayers, against Blackstone, KKR/Prisma, and PAAMCO for […]
Read more...Why Is CalPERS Board Member/Governor Wannabe John Chiang Telling a Big Lie About CalPERS Private Equity Outsourcing Scheme?
Gubernatorial candidate John Chiang looks more loyal to private equity than he does to California voters and CalPERS beneficiaries.
Read more...Intel: No Financial Meltdown
Some economists are Not Happy to see Intel getting away virtually scot free from its Meltdown and Spectre security train wrecks.
Read more...Carillion Collapse Will Leave Taxpayers With Big Bills, Produce Knock-On Failures; Shows Danger of “Public/Private Partnerships”
A first look at the implications of the failure of Carallion, a top UK infrastructure firm and provider of outsourced services to governments
Read more...CES Shows That the Future Will Not Work
The top consumer tech show in the US was chock full of products that visibly did not work, and no one seemed bothered.
Read more...Why Pretty Much Everything You Know About Depression Is Wrong
A new book takes issue with the widespread medicalization of depression.
Read more...Florida Prisoners Are Preparing to Strike Against Unpaid Labor
How prisoners are rebelling against slave labor in Florida penitentiaries.
Read more...CalPERS Launches Illegal, Corrupt, Unjustified and Beneficiary-Damaging Private Equity “Strategic Partner” Search Obviously Designed to Favor BlackRock
CalPERS looks to be handing the private equity keys to BlackRock in a breathtakingly crooked process.
Read more...Apple Battery Debacle: Yet Another Reason to Support a Right to Repair
The Apple iPhone battery debacle lends support to the right to repair movement, as well as benefits services such as iFixit.
Read more...Wired: Self Driving Car Hype Crashes Into Harsh Realities
Why self driving cars are not coming any time soon.
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