Provider chicanery is producing the perverse outcome that curbing surprise billing is blowing out healthcare charges elsewhere.
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Former CalPERS CFO Charles Asubonten Continues His Over Three-Year, Failed Legal Campaign to Silence Naked Capitalism Reporting With New Federal Suit in the Northern District of Alabama
Former CalPERS CFO Charles Asubonten doubles down on a losing legal campaign intended to silence Naked Capitalism.
Charles Asubonten v. Aurora Advisors Incorporated: Filed in Maryland February 2024, Dismissed April 2025, Appeal Dismissed July 2026, Motion to Reconsider Denied August 2026
The second unsuccessful case by Charles Asubonten seeking to silence Naked Capitalism’s reporting.
Charles Asubonten v. Susan Webber: Filed in Maryland in July 2023, Dismissed February 2024
The first in a pair of Charles Asubonten’s groundless and unsuccessful cases against Naked Capitalism’s reporting.
Mirable Dictu! AI Is Set to Destroy Major Software Quasi Monopolies
Will AI software clones wreck the predatory business models of giants like Adobe and Microsoft? One can hope.
Satyajit Das: On Cinema – The Wages of War
Another Satyajit Das thematic sampling from cinema and discussion, here on war.
Coffee Break: Elon Musk Has a Hand in Everything from Anthropic to Skydance to Texas Politics
Elon Musk is playing an outsize role in media, politics and tech in his dealings with Skydance, Anthropic, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Americans Hit Hardest by War-Driven Oil Price Surge
Despite Trump’s claims otherwise, American consumers and businesses are the lead victims of Gulf-War-induced oil price increases.
The Coming Global Spring
Expect regime change operations to shift into overdrive as destabilizing economic damage from war-induced food and energy crises mounts.
China Continues to Struggle With Overcapacity in Electric Cars, Other Sectors
While the West has less than stellar economic prospects, persistent overcapacity in China threatens destructive deflation.
RFK Jr. Condemned Over Baseless and ‘Nakedly Racist’ Anti-Arab Rant at Rogers Event in Michigan
RFK Jr.’s anti-Arab diatribe confirms the charge that all Trump ultimately has to offer is white supremacy.
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A Deadly Temptation
Originally developed as battlefield weapons, tactical nuclear arms have acquired a new rationale as instruments of incremental deterrence and escalation control. The revival of low-yield nuclear weapons illustrates a dangerous contradiction: efforts to strengthen deterrence may instead increase the risk of catastrophic escalation.
Why Whales Are Climate Heroes — Who Also Need Our Protection
How whales have outsized and not-sufficiently-well-recognized positive environmental effects.
