“Heads Should Roll at CalPERS”: Who Should Be Held Accountable for Massive Copyright Infringement?
CalPERS’ copyright theft is so large and indefensible that not only might it force a shakeup, but the truly responsible people could go.
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Yanis Varoufakis: Latest Eurogroup Statement Keeps Greece on the Austerity Rack
The Eurogroup doubles down on Greek debt extend and pretend, to its members political advantage and at great cost to Greek citizens.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Ten: The Uber Death Watch Begins
Why Uber is toast.
Read more...Trump Using Failed Australian “Asset Recycling” to Justify Mass Privatizations
Why would Trump adopt a foreign model for infrastructure that even conservatives deemed a failure? Apparently for the looting.
Read more...How Global Audit Firms Are Using Their Lobbying Clout to Dilute Sarbanes-Oxley Reforms
Accounting firms have specific reasons to be nervous about Sarbanes-Oxley, hence their eagerness to weaken it.
Read more...The “Market Forces” Behind the Obamas’ Record-Setting Book Deal
The Obamas’ book deal exemplifies the thesis that if a payment is too high for the nominal services, it must be for something else too.
Read more...Trump’s Budget Delivers Big Oil’s Wish: Reducing Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Trump seeks to deliver on another Koch Brothers pet idea: selling off part of the strategic petroleum reserve.
Read more...Debt Relief or a Fourth Financial Assistance Program for Greece?
Greece continues to be broken on the rack of austerity. How far might the IMF’s insistence on reducing the pain level actually get?
Read more...CalPERS Keeps Board in the Dark About How Private Equity “Subscription Line Financing” Gooses Staff and General Partner Pay and Systemic Risk
CalPERS is asleep at the switch yet again.
Read more...Board Candidate Asks Whether CalPERS Is Cooking the Books to Fatten Bonuses
CalPERS board candidate Margaret Brown finds a lot not to like in the way CalPERS continues to play fast and loose with figures.
Read more...VA Hospital Forcing Patients to Use Facebook and Twitter
So why is the VA promoting Rule by Facebook?
Read more...Chicago Shows How Charter School Profiteering Bleeds Public Schools Without No Performance Improvement and Higher Segregation
Chicago as a case study in charter school rent extraction.
Read more...Book Review: Game of Mates
A new book. Game of Mates, documents how rentier capitalism and soft corruption operate in Australia. Many of its findings apply to the US.
Read more...NY Times Lets a Charter School Propagandist Distort the Facts on Its Op-Ed Page
Quelle surprise! Card carrying neoliberal David Leonhardt of the New York Times twists facts to try to make a case for charter schools.
Read more...Uber Under Federal Criminal Investigation for “Greyball” Software
Uber is in hot water and has hired a big name white shoe firm, Shearman & Sterling, to conduct an internal investigation.
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