Category Archives: Risk and risk management

SEC to Relax Audit Requirements for Small Companies, Thus Facilitating Future Accounting Fraud

SEC proposes relaxing internal control attestation requirements for companies with annual revenues of less than $100 million.

The Next US Recession Is Likely to Be Around the Corner

Business economists argue that the length of an expansion is a good indicator of when a recession will hit.

Yes, the Tech Giants Are a Big Problem—But the Untamed Finance Industry Could Still Blow Up the Economy

Why finance, broadly defined, is still a hazard to the US economy.

Ralph Nader Calls Out Boeing for 737 MAX Lack of Airworthiness, Stock Buybacks, and Demands Muilenburg Resign

Nader: “There is no need to wait for some long-drawn out, redundant inquiry. Management was criminally negligent, 346 lives of passengers and crew were lost.”

The Effectiveness of the Global Financial Safety Net Depends on the Tools and Shocks

This column evaluates the effectiveness of the use of IMF support and foreign reserves in globally driven crises

Boeing’s 737 Max Debacle: The Result of a Dangerously Pro-Automation Design Philosophy?

A deep dive on the 737 Max fiasco.

Climate Research Must Change to Help Communities Plan for the Future

Climate scientist Robert Koop argues for national investment in universities analogous to that of long-standing cooperative extension programs but applied to scientific climate risk management.

Boeing Doubles Down on 737 Max, Rejects Need for Simulator Training

Boeing is compounding its bad decisions on the 737 Max.

Boeing Crapification: Second 737 Max Plane Within Five Months Crashes Just After Takeoff

Another Boeing 737 aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff in Addis Ababa yesterday, killing all 157 passengers on board, in circumstances similar to last October’s Lion Air crash in Indonesia. Consequences for Boeing depend on what the just-recovered voice and data recorders reveal.

CalPERS Admits Its New Private Equity Funds Will Dilute Returns, Seeks to Change Benchmark to Hide That; Presents Other Questionable Claims as Top Investors Underperform Due to “Alternative Investments”

Awfully late in the game, CalPERS finally tries to ‘splain its private equity plans. The giant fund only digs its hole deeper.

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Category Archives: Risk and risk management

SEC to Relax Audit Requirements for Small Companies, Thus Facilitating Future Accounting Fraud

The Next US Recession Is Likely to Be Around the Corner

Yes, the Tech Giants Are a Big Problem—But the Untamed Finance Industry Could Still Blow Up the Economy

Ralph Nader Calls Out Boeing for 737 MAX Lack of Airworthiness, Stock Buybacks, and Demands Muilenburg Resign

The Effectiveness of the Global Financial Safety Net Depends on the Tools and Shocks

Boeing’s 737 Max Debacle: The Result of a Dangerously Pro-Automation Design Philosophy?

Climate Research Must Change to Help Communities Plan for the Future

Boeing Doubles Down on 737 Max, Rejects Need for Simulator Training

Boeing Crapification: Second 737 Max Plane Within Five Months Crashes Just After Takeoff

Climate Damages: Uncertain but Ominous, or $51 per Ton of Carbon?

Even Endowments Not Beating Vanguard….So What Good Are Those High Fee Private Equity and Hedge Funds?

Stumped by the Stock Market Slump? Start by Picturing a Used Car Dealership

The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (I)

CalPERS Admits Its New Private Equity Funds Will Dilute Returns, Seeks to Change Benchmark to Hide That; Presents Other Questionable Claims as Top Investors Underperform Due to “Alternative Investments”

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