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• Unions a Danger to Good Government

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 569
  -By Warner Todd Huston What happens when a private sector union gets far too many benefits to the point where the business for which its membership works goes under or whose existence is threatened? Punishment. Unions either take a reduction of benefits or pay — or both — and cuts in time or jobs in order to ...
  55 minutes ago

• SacBee: CalPERS board member settled fraud lawsuit linked to city corruption probe

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 494
  dkasler@sacbee.com Published: Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 16A A CalPERS board member paid $67,000 to settle a civil fraud lawsuit tied to a political corruption probe in a Los Angeles suburb. Louis F. Moret, appointed to a four-year term on the Cal-PERS board in February 2008, was sued by the city ...
  6 days ago

• SacBee: CalPERS chief weighs public reprimands

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 494
  By Dale Kasler dkasler@sacbee.com Published: Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 3A CalPERS’ president, promising to clean up an influence-peddling scandal at the big pension fund, raised the prospect Wednesday of publicly reprimanding board members and employees who violate ethical standards. “We ...
  1 week ago

• Howard Marks Oaktree Capital To Raise $250 Million In Debt, Firm Has $67 Billion In AUM Currently

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 755
  Despite his recent admonitions about market participants never learning from the past, Howard Marks is more than happy to take advantage of just the kind of gullibility he writes about in his expansive investor letters. In fact, the manager of over $67 billion in assets is launching a $250 million 10 year bond deal ...
  1 week ago

• County Employees at Risk

  
  Maryland Politics Watch — Authority: 506
  The awful condition of the state budget has attracted a lot of attention in recent months. But the county budgets are not doing much better. And one constituency is going to pay the price as much or more than anyone: county employees. Below are the salary increases granted by counties to general government ...
  1 week ago

• Frontrunning: November 18

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 755
  Housing starts plunge 10%; has been a while since CNBC uttered green shoots ( Bloomberg ) Consumer prices increase 0.3% (0.2%) core as Americans pay more for gas ( Bloomberg ) Private equity funding plunges 62% at Calpers amid fee review ( Bloomberg ) Low U.S. stock trading volume heralds more gains ( Bloomberg ) ...
  1 week ago

• New York State Common Retirement Fund (Dumbest Money Imaginable) Does Not Participate In Q3 Stock Rally

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 755
  It may come as a surprise to many that even the dumbest of the dumb money, the New York State Common Retirement System, which according to its most recent 13F had about $44 billion in total equity assets (Calpers was a distant second at $29 billion) did not participate practically at all in the last quarters run up, ...
  1 week ago

• Slide Show: UPDATED – A Complete Guide to the CalPERS Home Loan Benefit

  
  California Public Employee & Teacher Resources — Authority: 139
  The California Public Employees Retirement System offers a special home purchase loan benefit to it’s members. This presentation outlines the benefits and details of this special benefit that features a down payment assistance program that allows up to 102% total financing. The CalPERS loan can also be used with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Great Idea – Ban Government Employee Unions

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 583
  Today’s Washington Examiner editorial offers an excellent suggestion: ban government employee unions. There was a time in America when the typical union member was a blue-collar guy sweating in a Pittsburgh steel mill, screwing together Chevies in Detroit or loading and unloading ships on the San Francisco ...
  2 weeks ago

• Political appointees double dip–deep–into the state’s pockets

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 558
  Photo by Phoney Nickle. This week  Gov. Bill Richardson announced plans to end a policy that allows state workers to retire and then return to work, collecting both a salary and a pension. By the governor’s own count, more than 500 state workers are so-called “double dippers.” With the state facing a ...
  2 weeks ago

• PIMCO, AllianceBernstein Face Over Half A Billion In Calpers Redemptions; Weakness For High Yield Market Approaching

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 755
  Not a good day for PIMCO as Calpers continues scapegoating for its deplorable performance, and today the California Pension manager decided to trim its exposure to PIMCO. In doing so, Calpers slammed the Newport Beach firm for being too risk averse (watch out Bill, you know what happened to John Mack for being too ...
  2 weeks ago

• Women Becoming Majority of Union Workers

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 569
  -By Warner Todd Huston The Associated Press had an interesting article reporting that women are fast becoming the majority of union members and will be the majority in 10 years if current trends continue. As it stand now, women make up 45 percent of union members today, up from 35 percent in 1983. Apparently ...
  2 weeks ago

• EPA intervenes on video by two employees

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 130
  An interesting, and timely, sidelight exposed in this article from today’s Science section of the NY Times .
  2 weeks ago

• Suit Plans to Expose EPA’s Radiation Level Plan

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 138
  Common radioactivity warning sign. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not come clean on its plan to dramatically raise permissible radioactive release levels, according to a lawsuit filed in October by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The new draft standards have been promulgated ...
  3 weeks ago

• Calif. investor ends role with top pension fund

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  San Francisco businessmen Victor MacFarlane is ending his longtime role as a real estate adviser to the California Public Employees Retirement System.
  5 weeks ago

• Capmark To File For Bankruptcy, More FDIC Headaches

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 755
  Its game over for Capmark, which is expected to file for bankruptcy within 24 hours. The firm which was formerly GMACs commercial real estate business (Or GMAC Commercial Holding Ccapital Markets Corp in short), and had originated over $10 billion in CRE loans (by the way, did we say that CRE REITs are undervalued? if ...
  5 weeks ago

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