Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption, and policy failures:
• Epic Fail: How a corporate duopoly ruined skiing. Mountains are losing their culture as the same two companies take over lodge after lodge after lodge. Gone are live bands, independent outfitters, free lift-side parking, and secret smoke shacks. Skiing has fast become just another soulless, pre-packaged, mass commercial experience. (Slate)
• Burned Investors Ask ‘Where Were the Auditors?’ A Court Says ‘Who Cares?’ Judges request that SEC weigh in on case that could affect $17 billion industry. (Wall Street Journal)
• What Dermatologists Really Think About Those Anti-Aging Products: Cosmetics companies are trying to wow consumers with clinical-sounding ingredients. Actual scientists aren’t impressed. (Businessweek)
• Cash and luxury travel: how US utilities keep fossil fuels in new homes: Utilities give rewards to house builders to install and promote gas appliances in homes – and enlist celebrity chefs to extoll the fossil fuel. (The Guardian)
• The Fate of the West’s Water Rests on the Shoulders of This 27-Year-Old: Can J.B. Hamby find a way to convince California’s cities and farmers to cut a deal over the Colorado River? (Politico)
• Oligarchy and Democracy: Democratic institutions aren’t sufficient in themselves to keep the wealthy few from concentrating political power. (The American Interest)
• GOP voter-fraud crackdown overwhelmingly targets minorities, Democrats: Black and Hispanic people made up more than 75 percent of defendants and Democrats nearly 60 percent in a controversial push by Republicans to prosecute election cheating, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Washington Post. (Washington Post)
• How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras: Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill. (ProPublica)
• The Colorado Ruling Changed My Mind: Don’t read the Colorado ruling, read the dissents. The strongest argument for throwing Trump off the ballot is the weakness of the counterarguments. (The Atlantic)
• When the New York Times lost its way: A journalism that starts out assuming it knows the answers can be far less valuable to the reader than a journalism that starts out with a humbling awareness that it knows nothing. (Economist)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business this week with Stephen Suttmeier, director and chief equity technical strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. His research appears regularly in Monthly Chart Portfolio of Global Markets, Market Analysis Comment, Sectors and Stocks on the Move, Thematic Stock Charts, and Chart Blast.
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Source: Lawfare
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