Why You Can’t Have a Shorter Workweek
A recap of the numerous, internally inconsistent arguments as to why workers can’t have a shorter workweek.
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The Caymans: Reputation, Rhetoric, and Reality
How the Caymans compare to other secrecy jurisdictions.
Read more...Big US Banks Make Laughable Excuses for Preserving Failed Universal Bank Model
Count on the banks to keep trotting out tired excuses for their too-big-to-faill ways.
Read more...How the Greediest Charter School Operators Loot Taxpayers Via Real Estate Deals
An interview with professor Preston Green, whose study found that the most aggressive charter school operators are using Enron-like tactics.
Read more...United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Fail
The reporting on United’s aggressive removal of Dr. David Dao has been misleading and also neglected the depth of management lapses.
Read more...Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Investigation Whitewashes Glaring Risk Management Failures
Wells’ law firm Sherman & Sterling issues a tough-sounding report on the fake accounts scandal that is really a coverup for its board.
Read more...John Michael Greer, James Howard Kunstler, Chris Martenson, Frank Morris, and Dmitry Orlov Discuss Trump, the Inequality Taboo and Other Hot Topics
A lively panel with provocative and colorful views.
Read more...Trump Can’t Save Coal
Why Trump isn’t bringing coal jobs back.
Read more...Wells Fargo Gets An Additional $110 Million Wrist Slap Over Fake Accounts Scandal
Wells will wind up paying far more in consumers via a private settlement of its fake account scandal than regulators made it cough up to them
Read more...Supreme Court Decides For Workers and Against Private Equity in Important Bankruptcy Case, Jevic
The Supreme Court slaps down lower courts and gives workers a key bankruptcy court win in Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp.
Read more...Who Benefits From the Mayo Clinic Explicitly Putting Commercially Insured Patients Ahead of Some Government Insured Patients?
The Mayo Clinic takes a big step backwards in patient care.
Read more...Uber President Resigns Unexpectedly, Citing Problems With “Beliefs and Approach to Management”
Yet more news of internal discord at Uber.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nine: The 1990s Koch Funded Propaganda Program That is Uber’s True Origin Story
The perception that Uber is a competitive success comes from a recycled propaganda campaign.
Read more...Why It Will Take a Lot More Than a Smartphone to Get the Sharing Economy Started
A look a sharing versus “sharing economy” hucksterism.
Read more...After Failed UK IPO, Bank Software “Dog” Misys May Be Coming to the US!
Misys’s private equity owner Vista is trying for an overpriced exit. As the saying goes, “Little pigs get fed, big pigs get slaughtered.
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