What city will be next to admit it has a lead problem? Why yours might be closer than you think.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: Underhanded, Dishonest Plans to Cut Investment Meetings of Poorly Performing Fund by More Than 50%, Shrink Investment Committee
The first of a two-part series describing the process and substance with which CalPERS staff is trying to engineer a de facto resignation of its board.
CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: “Attempted Coup” via Unconstitutional, Fiduciary-Duty-Violating “Code of Conduct”
Just when you think CalPERS can’t sink any lower, it manages to outdo itself, this time, with an illegal governance monstrosity masquerading a code of conduct.
CalPERS Board President Henry Jones Exposed for Leaking Confidential “Closed Session” Information; Board Member Theresa Taylor Gives Factually-Challenged Denial of Her Closed Session Leak
The hypocrisy of CalPERS’ board is on full display yet again.
Is the So-Called “Manufacturing Renaissance” a Mirage?
38 manufacturing industries continue to decline and nine of 10 of these industries are the critical industries that are fundamental to the manufacturing process
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/19/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Polling, Buttigieg, Harris, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, 2018 and 2020 post mortems, evangelicals, e-commerce, ethanol, AI in China, robot trucks, bees and regenerative farming, Arctic wildfires, California regulators, Harlan County miners, deaths of despair, selfies, birth photographers, customer service chatbots
Externalities – And Cheating – in the Financial Crisis
The magnitudes of booms and busts are amplified by two significant externalities triggered by aggregate shocks: the endogeneity of bank equity due to mark-to-market accounting and of bank liquidity due to ‘fire-sales’ of securitised assets. In addition to economic models, legal and political factors should also be considered.
CalPERS Board Member Theresa Taylor Breached Confidentiality, Board Engaged in Apparent Criminal Violations of Open Meeting Law in Attacks on Pro-Transparency Board Membrs
CalPERS has managed to outdo itself, in a predictably bad way.
One Nation Under Stress?
Why stress is not all it is cracked up to be.
Phishing Equilibria in E-Commerce: Shopping Sites and Dark Patterns
Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to. Shopping sites use them a lot, and the bigger the site, the more likely.
China’s Ultimate Play For Global Oil Market Control
The main driving issue is the realization by the Saudis that, irrespective of the reassuring rhetoric of Trump and Kushner, their bitter nemesis, Qatar, is far more important to the US than the rest of the conservative Arab monarchies and sheikhdoms of the GCC.
