Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

How Vulnerable is the US Electrical Grid to Winter Outages?

A look at the shaky state of the US electric grid and how it came to be in such sorry shape.

ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − Accused of Violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th Amendment Rights − Are Testing Whether the Constitution Can Survive

A law professor recaps ICE and DHS violations of the Constitution in Minnesota alone and their import in reversing Federal oversight.

The US of AI: How Energy Laws and Oversight Are Being Trashed to Benefit the Broligarchy

Billionaire tech libertarians have long sought “freedom cities” free from government oversight. It increasingly looks like they’re going to get a “freedom country” instead.

3 Trump Administration Health Policy Changes That Will Worsen Care for the Elderly

One Trump rule rollback alone will kill an estimated 13,000 nursing home residents a year. Welcome to what passes for health care in the US.

Move Fast and Break Everything: Crypto and the Democrats

How the Democrats brought crypto back from the dead after the FTX collapse and how weak oversight harms consumers and produces systemic risk.

Fed’s Standing Repo Facility (SRF) Drops to Zero, from $75 Billion on the Last Balance Sheet as Yearend Liquidity Turmoil Dissolves

Unpacking the much-ado-about-nothing over year-end use of the Fed’s pet liquidity-providing mechanism, its standing repo facility.

AI and Systemic Risk

The popular press is whistling past the graveyard of AI systemic risk even as heavyweight experts warn more needs to be done.

Satyajit Das: The Shadow of Financial Instability

Shadow banks, rebranded as anodyne “non-bank financial institutions” are larger than ever and pose a threat in a new financial crisis

Behind the USDA’s Regenerative Rhetoric Lurks Business as Usual

More on a part of the MAHA con, that of regenerative farming, which is simply a rebrand of factory farming.

Oklahoma’s Ban on Chinese-Owned Farmland Made an Exception for Smithfield Foods

Despite introducing legislation across the country to restrict foreign ownership of farmland, lawmakers do not appear motivated to target monopolistic firms, or to bring more of the food supply chain under domestic control.