Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Occupy the SEC Questions Unduly Generous Treatment of Disclosures by Corporate Beneficial Owners, aka Potential Tax Evaders

Occupy the SEC objects to portions of supposed corporate transparency regulation that hide more than is called for.

The Gas Stove Panic

The recent Biden campaign to restrict gas stove in homes is decidely inorganic. What might be behind it?

How Precision Scheduled Railroading at Norfolk Southern Caused a Toxic Vinyl Chloride Mushroom Cloud Over East Palestine, Ohio

I certainly hope Norfolk Southern’s owners are happy!

Carbon Capture Project Is ‘Band-Aid’ to Greenwash $10 Billion LNG Plant, Locals Say

Texas community fights to save its coastline as the developers of Rio Grande LNG reassure investors over climate impact.

An Old, Small Opening Salvo v Russia? 2013 Bank Bail-In “increasingly has the smell of a proxy Germany v. Russia struggle through Cyprus”

A closer look at an old Eurozone banking crisis shows how Cyprus was (at least to a degree) used to get at Russia.

The Latest Anti-Covid Nasal Spray Vaccine Science

At long last we understand Covid’s mechanism of infection; it remains only to fund the nasal vaccine efforts to leverage our understanding.

Natural Gas Futures in Europe Plunge 15% Today, Down 84% from Crazy Spike

Gas swan dive due to LNG glut in China?

Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

Following complaints, Oregon’s Public Utility Commission is investigating NW Natural’s meter testing program and billing practices.

SBF’s Substack Shows He Will Always Be in Our Face

Sadly, even prison is not likely to rid us of this turbulent financier, SBF.

Crypto-Focused Silvergate Bank Got De Facto Backdoor FDIC Bailout via $4.3 Billion Federal Home Loan Bank Advance

More crypto chicanery! How crypto-focused bank Silvergate got a very big ticket rescue from a quasii-government mortgage banker’s bank.

Chasing Big European Corporate Miscreants Through New York Courts: An Update Via a Barclays Filing

A filing against Barclays presents quite the rap sheet, and also illustrates why it takes legal bloodymindeness to take on these miscreants.

50 Years After Allende at the UN: a Corporate Triumph Named Multistakeholderism

Allende was early to warn of multinational threats to product safety, labor regulations, and other protections. Sadly corporate interests won.

FTX’s Collapse Mirrors an Infamous 18th Century British Financial Scandal

Perilous little is novel in finance, particularly scams like FTX.

Hoisted from Comments: Rosneft Refinery in Schwedt as a Microcosm of Europe’s Sanctions-Induced Energy Mess

A Rosneft refinery in Germany illustrates how difficult it is to get back to anything resembling status quo ante under sanctions.