Category Archives: News and Events

Carlos Ramos, the chair empire at the Serena Williams U.S. Open final, where there actually was another tennis player who actually won the match (Naomi Osaka). But Ms. Osaka is a footnote as U.S. Opens go because Ms. Williams railed … Continue reading →

The dilemma “The Ethicist” addressed on Sunday, October 7, 2018 in the New York Times. The Barometer is speechless, although not without questions: Why is this a worry if the relationship is so damaged that you are leaving? Why is … Continue reading →

The Barometer keeps hearing the description of the “right to speak their truth.” The Barometer is not clear on what that means, but the truth is not a personal thing. There is one truth, no matter how much people believe … Continue reading →

The title of a Wall Street Journalarticle on how fertility clinics are offering parents new options, including DNA tests on embryos to predict their baby’s eye color. That way they and pick and choose embryos. The unknown is parenthood, with … Continue reading →

Mr. Musk will settle the SEC suit he vowed to fight only yesterday morning. He will pay $20 million and no longer be chairman of the board of Tesla. Yowzers. When entrepreneurs go off the rails at full speed, it … Continue reading →

It took the SEC about two weeks to figure out that when Elon Musk tweeted that he had funding for going private at $420 per share, he was puffing. “Puffing” is a charitable description. The complaint alleges Mr. Musk misled … Continue reading →

The investigation began in 2014, and was called Operation Car Wash. The investigation focused on construction companies, and Operation Car Wash discovered that the construction companies over-billed Petrobras and bribing Brazilian officials and Petrobras executives for the privilege of over-billing … Continue reading →

In 2016, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers) hired Marcie Frost, the former director of the Washington Department of Labor & Industries, as its new CEO. Since the time of her appointment, Calpers is about to have it third … Continue reading →

As described here a week ago, one of Sloan Kettering’s cancer researchers, Dr. Jose Balsega, had received compensation from pharmas that was not disclosed either to Sloan Kettering or to the editors of the journals publishing his research on the … Continue reading →

Report commissioned by the bank and completed by a Swedish law firm that found there was money laundering that was brought to the bank’s attention in 2007. The interesting part is that it was the Russians who warned the bank … Continue reading →

The Mavericks workplace must have been one wild place. Executives viewed pornography and made sexual advances to co-workers, according to a 43-page report based on an NBA investigation. The report did not implicate Mr. Cuban, but employees told investigators that … Continue reading →

Initially, Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of CBS, took the position that Les Moonves, the CEO had to go. The directors were resistant and said they were willing to stay until midnight to get an agreement to stand 100% behind … Continue reading →

“Vatican prosecutors look into possible money laundering, fraud, and embezzlement.” Now that is a headline and story no priest, minister, bishop, cardinal, or pope wants to see. Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, September 15, 2018, p. A8. The suspicion is … Continue reading →

Under the Grand Slam rules in tennis, coaching during the match is prohibited (ATP Code). It is a Code violation, and for the first code violation, players get a warning. Under those same rules, racket abuse is also prohibited. i) … Continue reading →