Uber Under Federal Criminal Investigation for “Greyball” Software
Uber is in hot water and has hired a big name white shoe firm, Shearman & Sterling, to conduct an internal investigation.
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Organizing Against the Gig Economy: Lessons from Latin America?
New strategies of organization and workers’ control in Latin America suggest ways to combat the insecurity of the gig economy.
Read more...British Press Hissy Fit Over Predictable EU Move to Relocate Euro-Clearing to the Continent
The UK press reacts with unwarranted indignation to an EU move that was sure to happen.
Read more...The Trump Administration’s FCC Tries to Roll Back Net Neutrality
How the Obama Administration established net neutrality, why the Trump administration wants to roll it back, and what you can do.
Read more...UN Panel Strives to Improve Access to Medicines: TRNN Interview with Celso Amorim
TRNN interview with Celso Amorim on which priorities should prevail when intellectual property protection collides with public health.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Reports on Appearance of Private Equity Self-Dealing at Blackstone and Other Firms Nearly Four Years After We Broke the Story
So why is the Wall Street Journal years late in reporting on private equity self-dealng, and underplays its seriousness to boot?
Read more...Trump and Congress Use Congressional Review Act to Roll Back 14 ‘Midnight’ Rules; More to Follow?
Republicans use obscure 1996 law to roll back midnight rules. Federal courts are soon likely to consider its limits.
Read more...Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential “Terrorists”
States such as Oklahoma and North Dakota lead the way in repressing protest over pipeline and fracking activities.
Read more...Former Workers at Elon Musk’s SolarCity Allege Employment Abuses, Improper Installations
Over 2000 former SolarCity workers allege labor violations, like denying overtime pay and bathroom breaks, as well as shoddy installations.
Read more...Trump DOJ to Continue FCPA Focus: More Smoke and Mirrors?
The focus on FCPA violations continues the DoJ’s smoke and mirrors enforcement policy, ignoring more serious corporate crime.
Read more...Too Little, Too Late Lawsuit Against Predatory Servicer Ocwen Demonstrates Failure to Address Servicing Abuses
Recidivist mortgage servicer Ocwen gets whacked by the officialdom yet again, showing how inadequate mortgage “reforms” under Obama were.
Read more...Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Suits Become Favored Hedge Fund Investment
ISDS suits are increasingly getting financial backing from speculators like hedge funds.
Read more...Californians! Please Write Today to Support Public Access to Government Records
California government bodies regularly thwart public requests for government documents. Write today to support a bill to curb those abuses.
Read more...Bill Black: Dodd-Frank Was Designed to Fail – and Trump Will Make it Worse
More confirmation that Dodd-Frank was never intended to do more than make marginal changes in bank regulation to forestall real reform.
Read more...More Brexit Miscalculations: UK Can Have Industrial Policy Only With Hard Brexit
The UK government wants industrial policy reforms that are incompatible with EU rules. Those rules would apply save in a hard Brexit.
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