Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

What Would Happen If The ACA Went Away?

The ACA is back in play.

Boeing Halts 737 Max Production to Reduce Cash Burn; Suppliers Hit; Measurable Ding to GDP Expected

Boeing takes a 737 Max self-preservation measure, to the detriment of suppliers and even the overall US economy.

Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?

In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how companies like Google and their tech brethren stampede over all of us.

The “Fixing Capitalism” Headfake

Why most plans to create a kinder, gentler capitalism fall way short.

Payday Lenders Offering Installment Loans to Evade Regulations – But They May Be Even Worse

When is a payday loan still pretty much a payday loan? When it’s an installment loan with annual interest rates over 100%.

Misunderstanding Volcker

A reappraisal of Volcker, who was more hostile to workers and less hard on financiers than the press would have you believe.

BBVA Compass Fails to Dispute, Much the Less Remedy, Retaliatory Swatting, Disclosure of Confidential Information, and Reckless Treatment of Elderly Customer

BBVA has not denied that an officer swatted an elderly woman on fabricated grounds as retaliation for documenting his reckless advice.

Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry

A takedown of the pharmaceutical industry’s assertion that it need to price gouge so it can invest in R&D. Profits go almost entirely to various forms of looting.

US Targets Wage-Repression Model in Mexico, Demands Inspections, Industry Has a Cow

A proposed provision in the so-called “NAFTA 2.0” to increase autoworker wages in Mexico is raising hackles south of the border.

Why Hospitals Never Have Enough Nurses: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” of Wealth Concentration

Nurses, or more accurately, nurse staffing levels demonstrate a central bad incentive in American medicine.

‘Dark Waters’ Tells the Origin Story of a Public Health Nightmare. We’re Still Living It.

On a docu-drama that recounts the first major suit against toxic “forever chemicals” and what’s being done about them now.

Opening of Formerly Secret FDA Database Exposes Medical Device Failures, Spurring Lawsuits

The FDA kept a database of medical device malfunctions secret for decades.

An Introduction to the State of Energy Storage in the U.S.

A look at energy storage options in connection with wind and solar power is not entirely reassuring.