Category Archives: Ridiculously obvious scams

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.

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.

Wired: Self Driving Car Hype Crashes Into Harsh Realities

Why self driving cars are not coming any time soon.

How Nutrition “Science” Made the US and Other Countries Fatter

A deep dive into how an unproven nutrition theory, that saturated fats cause heart disease, became gospel, to the public’s detriment.

Bill Black: DSGE Dilettantes v. ADM God Devotees

Black shows how DSGE defenses fall apart, even as their backers lash out at critics.

Corporatizatizing The All-Administrative University

How parasitic administrators are ruining university education.

Judge Sides with Big Oil in Maine Pipeline Case

Judge allows oil company challenge to city ordinance to proceed, to allow pipeline company in theory to transport Canadian tar sands oil.

Guess Which Schools and Degrees Produce the Most Student Loan Defaults? Hint: It’s Not the Humanities

A revealing dive into student loan data.

Tech Giants Trying to Use WTO to Colonize Emerging Economies

Tech titans like Google and Apple seek to create a “global” regime to prevent developing economies from protecting their companies or data.

Incoming Board Member Margaret Brown Criticizes CalPERS’ Plan to Hurt Beneficiaries by Hiring Unnecessary, High-Priced Private Equity Middlemen; CalPERS Violates Open Meeting Rules by Advancing Plan in Secret

Incoming CalPERS board member Margaret Brown dishes out some straight talk on where the giant pension fund needs to shape up.

LEAKED: Head Of FCC Mocks Impending Destruction Of The Internet

Ajit Pai, the head of the FCC, shows his true colors. Not a pretty sight.

Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eleven: Annual Uber Losses Now Approaching $5 Billion

Uber’s ever-widening losses confirms Hubert Horan’s thesis that Uber has no credible path to profit absent a radical downsizing.

MIT Professor Angrist Publishes Obviously Misleading Analysis of Uber Driver Economics….With Uber Chief Economist as Co-Author

More Uber boosterism masquerading as analysis.

Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future

The insane trajectory of the energy cost of bitcoin mining.