Is the Sacramento Bee in the Business of Protecting CalPERS?
So why did the Sacramento Bee do CalPERS a big favor, particularly when CalPERS is clearly in the wrong?
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The Super Wealthy Oxycontin Family Supports School Privatization With Tactics Similar to Those That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic
How the marketing model the Sackler family developed to promote OxyContin is being applied to one of their pet causes, charter schools.
Read more...Uber and SoftBank Might Finally Have a Deal….But What Does It Mean?
It’s taken Uber four months to perhaps cinch a deal with SoftBank, while the spectacularly loss-making company is no closer to making money.
Read more...CalPERS Corruption Watch: Chief Investment Officer Ted Eliopoulos Takes Illegal Business Solicitations From Recent Employee
On the one hand, the latest public disclosure of misconduct by CalPERS executives and staff isn’t earthshaking. On the other, it was still significant enough to merit a Financial Times story. And it also illustrates a thumb-nosing attitude toward the law that has become a CalPERS trademark. In a Financial Times FundFire article, Ex-CalPERS Exec’s […]
Read more...Nomi Prins: Steven Mnuchin, Foreclosure King of America
A summary of the many reasons to view Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with contempt.
Read more...Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Donna Brazile’s DNC Bombshell
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard responds to former interim chair Donna Brazile’s revelation that the Clinton campaign had effective control of the DNC.
Read more...Third Way Democrats Double Down on Anti-90% Agenda With More Attacks on Public Schools
The Democrats are sticking firmly to their anti-middle class ways, as their renewed attacks on public schools show.
Read more...Impossible to Compete with Unintentional Self-Parody: Trump and Opioids
On the corporate/regulatory nexus of the opioid crisis.
Read more...Cryptocurrency: Birkins for Geeks
Bitcoin as Birking-like bling.
Read more...Worst Health Care Revolving Door Case So Far, Version 2.0? – From President of Lilly USA to US Secretary of Health and Human Services?
Trump is managing the difficult task of setting new lows in the revolving door category.
Read more...India’s Demonetization Experiment Fails to Demonetize: Cash Comes Full Circle
Cash withdrawals from Indian ATM machines are nearly back to the level of just before Modi’s demonetization shock.
Read more...“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
How an out-of-control opioid industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale.
Read more...Wolf Richter: The Big Amazon Subsidy is Doomed
Amazon is losing more and more ground to states out to collect sales taxes.
Read more...Naked Capitalism: Skewering Three Trumpitudes, Promoting Critical Thinking, and Rejecting Conventional Wisdom
Help us continue to chart our independent course through hazardous waters, skewering Trumpitudes, sloppy thinking, and other fallacies.
Read more...Facebook’s Fake Numbers: Parsing Facebook’s “Reach” Inflation
Facebook tells Big Lies about its users. Why aren’t advertisers making a Big Stink?
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