Paul Krugman asks: is crypto’s boom built to crash? He argues hype, leverage, and weak oversight can turn fast gains into sudden losses—and why everyday investors often pay the price. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypotocrash #Crypto #Finance #Regulation

Under Oklahoma law, it’s a crime for anyone but a state-licensed funeral director to sell caskets to the public.  

To become licensed funeral directors, Candi and Todd would have to spend 2 years in a mortuary science program (training in skills wholly unnecessary to selling a casket), complete a one-year apprenticeship under a funeral director, pass two exams on funeral directing, and pay thousands of dollars. And it doesn’t stop there.

They would also have to convert their workshop in Calvin into a full-service funeral home—spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to build an embalming room, create a viewing area for human remains, and purchase a fleet of vehicles to transport human remains. None of these additions would be of any use to them.

All of that to sell a box. But caskets serve no public health or safety purpose.

Now, represented by IJ, Candi and Todd have filed a lawsuit against Oklahoma’s outrageous licensing requirements for casket sales. 

📰 UK Advances New Bill to Regulate Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

🇬🇧 The UK is advancing a new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to regulate Managed Service Providers (MSPs). The law aims to mitigate supply-chain risks by imposing new security duties on providers. #CyberSecurity #UK #Regulation #MSP

🔗 https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/uk-proposes-cyber-security-and-resilience-bill-to-regulate-msps/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitter_auto

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/05/doj-appeals-google-antitrust-ruling-chrome-divestiture-xcxwbn/

DOJ Appeals Google Antitrust Ruling, Seeks Chrome Divestiture

#Google #Apple #Alphabet #DOJ #Antitrust #GoogleChrome #GoogleSearch #BigTech #Regulation #WebBrowsers #SearchEngines

Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules.

Nor is there broad political support to invest more resources to protect foreign workers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Immigration #Agriculture #Labor #Abuse #Exploitation #Regulation

The competence of those who wish to operate a car are subject to the licensure regulation by their state. Older drives are additionally subject to medical scrutiny, by a doctor whose privilege to practice medicine is, itself, regulated by that state. The point is, just to be able to operate something as mundane as a car, the person must submit to a hierarchy of independent scrutineers whose conduct is governed by a hierarchy of regulations and laws. And these control points exist for very obvious and sensible reasons.

But such reasonable #regulation of and independent #scrutiny of #competence is utterly absent, when it comes to #gun ownership and #WhiteHouse occupancy.

Paul Krugman asks: is crypto’s long winter here? In “Is this crypto’s fimbulwinter,” he links recent turmoil to shaky fundamentals, hype, and missing safeguards—hinting that real consumer protections matter as much as innovation. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-this-cryptos-fimbulwinter #Crypto #Regulation #ConsumerProtection

The Dramatic Rise of Farm Labor Contractors Has Led to Rampant Abuses. Here’s Why Regulators Have Failed to Stop Them.

https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators

#Immigration #Regulation #Labor

Engadget (@engadget)

초당적 SCAM Act(법안)가 온라인 플랫폼에 사기성 광고 단속을 의무화하도록 요구할 것이라는 소식입니다. 플랫폼 규제와 광고 관련 책임을 강화하는 법안으로, 온라인 광고 정책·운영에 영향을 줄 수 있는 규제 변경입니다.

https://x.com/engadget/status/2019155486327660695

#scamact #regulation #onlinesafety #ads

Corporate groundwater extraction from the World Heritage-listed Gondwana rainforest

"The rainforest dates back 50 million years and is linked to fossil flora that once grew in Patagonia and Antarctica."

The" "unmonitored and unregulated" commercial extraction or "water mining" at Springbrook National Park was having a "virtually unknown" impact on the sensitive ecosystem...The extraction of water from underground aquifers could threaten the region's ancient Gondwana rainforests, with regulation "urgently required".
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-05/water-extraction-caps-at-world-heritage-springbrook/106304388
#rainforest #Gondwana #water #WaterMining #extractivism #regulation #WorldHeritage #biodiversity

AmneziaVPN (@AmneziaVPN)

프랑스가 10대의 소셜 미디어 이용 금지에 이어 VPN 규제 검토를 하고 있다는 지적을 담은 트윗입니다. 작성자는 최근 AI 모델 'Grok' 관련 논란을 언급하며 프랑스의 연달은 규제 움직임에 우려를 표합니다(TechRadar 인용).

https://x.com/AmneziaVPN/status/2019074128121147550

#policy #vpn #grok #regulation

Another Ontario real estate firm has trust accounts frozen by regulator
Ontario's real estate regulator has taken action against four brokerages over the alleged unlawful disbursing of funds from trust accounts.
#realestate #regulation #finance #Ontario #Canada #Economy
https://globalnews.ca/news/11652435/save-max-real-estate-ontario/

Another Ontario real estate firm has trust accounts frozen by regulator
Ontario's real estate regulator has taken action against four brokerages over the alleged unlawful disbursing of funds from trust accounts.
#realestate #regulation #finance #Ontario #Canada #Economy
https://globalnews.ca/news/11652435/save-max-real-estate-ontario/

Another Ontario real estate firm has trust accounts frozen by regulator
Ontario's real estate regulator has taken action against four brokerages over the alleged unlawful disbursing of funds from trust accounts.
#realestate #regulation #finance #Ontario #Canada #Economy
https://globalnews.ca/news/11652435/save-max-real-estate-ontario/

Another Ontario real estate firm has trust accounts frozen by regulator
Ontario's real estate regulator has taken action against four brokerages over the alleged unlawful disbursing of funds from trust accounts.
#realestate #regulation #finance #Ontario #Canada #Economy
https://globalnews.ca/news/11652435/save-max-real-estate-ontario/

Another Ontario real estate firm has trust accounts frozen by regulator
Ontario's real estate regulator has taken action against four brokerages over the alleged unlawful disbursing of funds from trust accounts.
#realestate #regulation #finance #Ontario #Canada #Economy
https://globalnews.ca/news/11652435/save-max-real-estate-ontario/

Another Ontario real estate firm has trust accounts frozen by regulator
Ontario's real estate regulator has taken action against four brokerages over the alleged unlawful disbursing of funds from trust accounts.
#realestate #regulation #finance #Ontario #Canada #Economy
https://globalnews.ca/news/11652435/save-max-real-estate-ontario/

Another Ontario real estate firm has trust accounts frozen by regulator
Ontario's real estate regulator has taken action against four brokerages over the alleged unlawful disbursing of funds from trust accounts.
#realestate #regulation #finance #Ontario #Canada #Economy
https://globalnews.ca/news/11652435/save-max-real-estate-ontario/