corporate greed

Ain’t the Free Market Grand?

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 7, 2017

Jesus, Adam Smith, and Milton Friedman have only one message for you when it comes to Hurricane Irma--engage in as much profiteering as possible. Hey @united this is price gouging. There was word you were going to add flights to help people get out of...

General

Buy American Lies

By Erik Loomis

On March 5, 2017

The problem with politicians and corporations promoting their own Made in America campaigns isn't that we shouldn't have an industrial policy that promotes domestically made goods. It's that their promises.

General

Obama Cracks Down on Inversions

By Erik Loomis

On April 7, 2016

I like this Obama. Can we reelect him this fall? The drug giant Pfizer wanted to cut its taxes through a $152 billion takeover of the Dublin-based maker of Botox..

Inversions

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 8, 2015

The issue of corporate inversions, where American companies buy a foreign firm and shift its official base to that country for tax purposes while remaining as American as ever in all other ways in order to avoid paying corporate taxes, is a major problem. President...

truffautfan I am the weirdo who would break up Disney under the Sherman Antitrust Act because I don't seemingly like how they can gobble up everything. I suspect this is one of the many things that will destroy...
Unionizing Disney · April 18, 2024
3lemenope Twenty years ago, I would certainly have expected that. (And would have been disappointed, for reasons Aaron Sorkin illustrated painfully in The West Wing.) But now, with the intensification of...
Trying to get in on the Intellectual Dark Web grift · April 18, 2024
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This great meritocracy of ours · April 18, 2024
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This great meritocracy of ours · April 18, 2024
dogboy Probably the best example of Betts' skill as a songwriter. He's the black haired guitar player; Duane Allman, often mentioned as the greatest guitar player, is the one with blonde hair. After Duane's...
Dickey Betts, RIP · April 18, 2024