CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost doesn’t even bother to lie well.
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Friday, December 12, 2025
CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost Says She’s Not in Charge and Lies to the Board About Receiving a Warning from the Fair Political Practices Commission
Topics: Banana republic, CalPERS, Corporate governance, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:18 am | 15 Comments »
New York City Seeks to Shortchange Teachers on $900 Million of Back Pay
Another sign of increasing budget problems in New York City.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:06 am | 25 Comments »
Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis
The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Income disparity, Privatization
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:06 am | 29 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/8/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Good morning! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Here are the United States regions: Unmistakable rise in all regions now. Ugh. Here are the Swing States as I […]
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 153 Comments »
Yanis Varoufakis: How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century
Could progressives obtain power through a Progressive International movement?
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 45 Comments »
Links 10/8/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 248 Comments »
Latest Nobel Prize in Chemistry Demonstrates How the US Patent Office Screws Inventors
A high profile example of the train wreck called the US patent process.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Science and the scientific method, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:53 am | 49 Comments »
Trump’s New Healthcare Executive Order
Trump believes he protected people with pre-existing conditions and eliminated surprise billing via an executive order. He did not.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Links, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:19 am | 13 Comments »
Down to the Wire, Last Chance for Our 2020 Fundraiser!
Last call! Help make our 2020 fundraiser the best ever!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:40 pm | 16 Comments »
Live Blog: Vice-Presidential Debate in Salt Lake City, UT
Pence v. Harris
Topics: Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 8:30 pm | 156 Comments »
Countdown!
We met one of our final goals! One left to beat! Will you help make this the best fundraiser ever?
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:15 pm | 2 Comments »
Closing Hours of the 2020 Fundraiser, About to Hit Our New $ and Donor Targets!
Please give in the home stretch to make this fundraiser a smashing success!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:10 pm | 8 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/7/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 135 Comments »
Bleak Views of Melting Antarctic Ice, From Above and Below
Two troubling recent studies clarify projections of glacial ice loss, sea-level rise, and the need to act on climate.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 25 Comments »
Links 10/7/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 248 Comments »


