Category Archives: Ridiculously obvious scams

Uber Board Members Kiss and Make Up (for Now), but Long-Term Problems Remain

Uber may have bought itself more time with a conditional pact among its big shareholders, but it hasn’t solved its fundamental problems.

Will Retailers Switch to a Price Tag System That Screws Customers at Every Opportunity?

Beware! Retailers are trying to implement smart phone snooping to allow for better price gouging.

Prosecution Futures? Multibillion Dollar Orders in Coinbase Trading Platform

Some mighty strange, and mighty big, orders in a Coinbase trading platform order book…..

Amazon’s Inhuman Customer Service Issues Death Sentence to Local Library Fundraising

Amazon is mean.

CalPERS Board Candidate Margaret Brown Objects to Unconstitutional, Non-Secret, Insecure, Unauditable Election; Vendor Handling Phone and Internet Voting Criticized for Incompetence, Exaggerating Security of On-Line Voting

CalPERS’ election procedures would embarrass any self-respecting banana republic.

Cybersecurity Ain’t the Only Game in Town: The Scams Multiply

Cybersecurity is much in today’s news, but it’s not the only source of scams– which are much more omnipresent than in the past.

Gaius Publius: Obama Follows Clinton, Boards the Millionaire Speech Train to Wall Street

Like Bill Clinton before him, ex-President Barack Obama has boarded the Wall Street-financed train to millionaire riches.

Toys R Us: Another Private Equity Casualty

What killed Toys R US? Amazon,Walmart? The numbers say the company’s yet the latest in a string of retail casualties to private equity greed.

Bill Black: Massachusetts First to Sue Equifax Over Massive Hack

Several government agencies and at least 34 state attorneys general have opened probes into the Equifax data-breach scandal–‘the gift that keeps on giving,’ says Bill Black.

Wall Street Journal Reports on SoftBank Offer for Uber….Yet No Other Press Outlet is Picking the Story Up

Why are major media outlets uncharacteristically ignoring a big SoftBank-Uber story that the Wall Street Journal broke yesterday?

More Signs of Private Equity Market Frenzy: Firms Selling Stakes

Yet more evidence that the private equity market is overheated.

High Tech Pork: The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion

On the Pentagon’s costly, misguided love affair with futuristic tech.

CalPERS Goes for Secrecy Over Returns; Exploring Paying Additional Layer of Private Equity Fees by Outsourcing to BlackRock

CalPERS is exploring having BlackRock hide its private equity problems under a costly rug.

Don Quijones: ECB Tightens Noose Around Bank Accounts

ECB moves to lock up the money of unsuspecting depositors to prop up collapsing banks.