The SEC Fiddles While the System Burns: Insider Trading Enforcement As Securities Law Theater
The SEC’s focus on insider trading, at the expense of offences with greater systemic significance, is a form of securities law theater.
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CFPB Looks Here to Stay: What Does the Future Hold?
A decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturning the CFPB director structure allows the agency to pursue its ongoing policy and enforcement agenda. With separate new regulations on payday lending and mandatory arbitration expected soon, will consumers finally get the more effective financial product regulation we deserve?
Read more...Links 9/28/16
Doing Time: Prison, Law Schools, and the Membership of the US Supreme Court
Current selection of Supreme Court justices hinges heavily on identity politics. More attention should be paid to diversity of experience.
Read more...Links 9/12/2016
Warrant Issued for Amy Goodman’s Arrest for DAPL Reporting: Watch Your Back!
North Dakota officials have issued an arrest warrant for journalist Amy Goodman for her coverage of the use of dogs and pepper spray against DAPL protestors.
Read more...Greg Palast’s New Film Exposes How Republican Oligarchs Are Crusading to Stop People of Color and the Poor from Voting
Voting is corrupted, with scheming operatives now vying to steal and sabotage presidential elections using the darkest of political arts.
Read more...Bill Moyers: We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People: Saving the Soul of Democracy
National treasure Bill Moyers describes the rise of inequality and America’s descent into plutocracy, reflecting wisdom acquired over six decades of thinking and writing about American politics.
Read more...The High Hidden Costs of Fast Fashion
Fast fashion imposes high hidden costs, especially to the environmental. Waste, pollution, and a high carbon footprint are the most serious. Consumers can make choices that mitigate some of these deleterious effects.
Read more...Links 9/11/2016
Obama Again Sounds Climate Change Alarm But Continues To Support Fossil Fuel Industry
Obama talks the climate change talk, but his policies continue to support increased US fossil fuel production, especially via fracking.
Read more...Dakota Pipeline Will Proceed As Feds Undertake Smoke and Mirrors Policy Reconsideration
Following a federal court decision to deny an injunction blocking the Dakota Access pipeline, three federal agencies impose a limited, “voluntary” temporary halt on construction of one small section.
Read more...Links 9/7/2016
Law Enforcement Losing War on White Collar Crime
Governments are losing the war on economic crime and considering new approaches, including involving the private sector to a greater degree.
Read more...Are We Really Going to Sell Out the US Alliance for Property Prices? Australia’s China Choices
Australia faces choices in deciding what role China should play in Australia’s future. China is aggressively deploying “soft power” and outright offers of money (or threats to withhold funds) in attempting to sway Australian foreign policy both in the short-term, in pressing China’s case for control of the South China Sea, and in the longer-term, to reconsider its alliance with the United States.
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