Why Is CalPERS’ Staff Serving Up Tech Charlatanism to Its Board?
CalPERS’ staff enlists McKinsey to pull yet another fast one on its board.
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Naked Capitalism Readers Issue Scam Alert For Amazon’s “Become Our Freight Shipper” Scheme
Amazon isn’t satisfied with creating modern day sweatshops via its warehouses. It wants to suck the capital and labor of the not-so-savvy entrepreneur wannabes into its maw.
Read more...Tesla And GM Close To Capping Out On Electric Vehicle Tax Incentives
Tesla and GM are nearing the end of a subsidy road.
Read more...Why Did Trump Win? Robots Are to Blame
Why robots, and not “bots,” may have been responsible for Trump’s win.
Read more...Some Notes on Trump’s Trade War Threat
Some observations about the Trump-China spat.
Read more...Net Neutrality Supporters Face Off Against The FCC
Net neutrality is dead. Long live net neutrality.
Read more...Neoliberalism’s Assault on the Veteran’s Administration Continues
An impending IT debacle at the Veteran’s Administration, and a bipartisan effort to privatize it.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Fifteen: Uber’s Q1 Results – Reporters Show They Aren’t Up to Reading Financials
What was the real story in Uber’s first quarter results?
Read more...Will TSB Ever Be Completely Fixed?
TSB’s IT meltdown has dissappeared from mainstream media headlines. But is that the end of the story?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Fake News No Problem – Internet Totally Dominates Advertising in the US
TV falls behind further, suffers first advertising revenue decline since the Financial Crisis
Read more...Do Not Even Consider Using the Voice Over Internet Service Vonage
Vonage deserves to die as a business for what they have put me through.
Read more...Election-Rigging, CalPERS-Style: How Voting by Phone Was Designed to Favor Incumbent, Suppress Support for Challenger
CalPERS not only looks to have tried to throw the phone voting in a runoff election last year in favor of the incumbent, but it is acting awfully guilty by refusing to cough up records and data.
Read more...Airbnb Turns to Brussels for Help as Anti-Tourist Backlash Intensifies in Europe
Airbnb is on the run in Europe and desperate to find allies.
Read more...#TSBFail: MPs Barely Lay a Glove on CEO Pester, Who Discredits Himself All on His Own
Even with a mere wet-noodle lashing by MPs, TSB came off pretty badly in Parliament.
Read more...California Supreme Court Ruling Delivers Big Blow to Gig Economy Companies
Many gig economy firms will have to classify a big swathe of their workers as employees or radically change their business models.
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