Making the World Safe for KFC: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
How the World Bank’s IFC and others development banks supported KFC’s world conquest by backing its factory farms.
Read more...How the World Bank’s IFC and others development banks supported KFC’s world conquest by backing its factory farms.
Read more...Venture capital and private equity are playing a larger role in the military-industrial complex leading to even more corruption, lack of accountability and the swallowing up of young minds by the Silicon Valley money pit.
Read more...Yellen made a complete hash of the question of Chinese overcapacity, a real problem unlikely to sort itself out nicely.
Read more...Eileen Appelbaum takes a critical look at Medicare Advantage, exposing how it falls short of its cost-saving and quality-enhancing promises.
Read more...Unauthorized enrollment or plan-switching is emerging as a serious challenge for the ACA, also known as Obamacare.
Read more...The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income.
Read more...Plans suffer from design flaws, cost overruns, and a reliance on Russia for multiple stages of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Read more...Matt Taibbii took a good look at Google’s AI censorship of this site and deemed it “an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression.”
Read more...The Financial Times debunks private equity flim-flammery even as CalPERS and others sign up for more.
Read more...Google tries to censor this site based on a systematically flawed AI review. How many others will be victims of bad algos?
Read more...Private equity is setting out to hoover up accounting practices. The sorry experience in health care says there is cause for pause.
Read more...Physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk Big Pharma arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation
Read more...The scientific, health, and political debate over the true cost of ultra–processed has just gone mainstream….which is late.
Read more...Tax havens not only facilitate tax evasion and corruption in ‘normal times’, they also harbour funds during economic crises, slowing down recovery.
Read more...How some key points on negotiating Medicare drug prices under the Inflation Reduction Act were oddly left open, arguably much too open.
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