Category Archives: Investment management

Elon Musk and Tesla Shape America’s Future. But Problems Run Deeper Than Tweets.

The financialization of U.S. firms making key products endangers American global leadership and, in Tesla’s case, climate change progress.

Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Battle With Yet More Efforts by KKR and Blackstone to Delay or Prevent Discovery

An update on the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems pension case, with KKR and Blackstone and their execs still fighting discovery

The Irrationality of Markets

More evidence that the current level of advanced economy secondary market trading is bad for economic health.

AI Financial Crises

Yes, Virginia, AI, like older forms of automated trading, has a nasty propensity to cause crises.

Analysis Shows How Surging Stock Buybacks Bolster Case for Corporate Tax Hike

The magnitude of corporate cash going to stock buybacks suggests reversing the Trump tax cuts poses little real economy risk.

Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?

The Elon Musk $48 Billion stock-option package and its implications for the EV transition

Private Equity Becomes Roach Motel as Public Pension Funds and Other Investors Borrow As Funds Remain Tied Up

Oopsie! Private equity firms are hanging on to investor money for an unseemly amount of time! What to do?

Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide

Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.

“Dollar Doomsters Have Got It All Wrong”

Why reports of the [imminent] death of the dollar are greatly exaggerated.

Israel Boosterism Keeps Israel Bonds Afloat Even as Some Top Global Investors Exit

Israel bonds, an important element of Israel’s war financing, are coming under attack.

Private Equity Seeks to Foist Companies It Can’t Sell on Employees

Oh noes! Private equity is finding it hard to find buyers for all those deals it bought when interest rates were low!

Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Seek Repayment from KKR Entities of Misappropriated $137 Million Plus Interest and Punitive Damages, Totaling $771 Million….Oh, and An Accounting Too

The Tier 3 Plaintiffs in the long-running public pension case, Kentucky Retirement Systems, are fast off their marks with a blockbuster filing.

Game Finally On! Judge Denies Key Motions to Dismiss in Kentucky Retirement Systems Litigation, Subjecting KKR, Blackstone, PAAMCO, and Top Financiers Henry Kravis, George Roberts, Steve Schwarzman, and Tomlinson Hill to Discovery

The much-delayed Kentucky Retirement System cases are finally moving forward, causing heartburn to some top names on Wall Street.

“Living in Netanyahu’s America” – In More Ways Than One

The economic components that have served as the dehumanizing foundation to Israel’s current “plausible” genocide share many similarities with poor Americans and migrant laborers who are treated as disposable in the US.