Elon Musk and Tesla Shape America’s Future. But Problems Run Deeper Than Tweets.
The financialization of U.S. firms making key products endangers American global leadership and, in Tesla’s case, climate change progress.
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The Death of the Engineer CEO: Evidence that Short-Termism and Financialization Had Become Ascendant
A look at how some turning points in the history of Corporate America, such as CEO changes of guard, explain how America hollowed itself out.
Read more...“No One Has a Right to Limited Liability”
Limited liability has come to cover for not just incompetent but also criminal conduct. But what to do?
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: Is Intel Going Down the Boeing Path?
Why Intel’s prospects are even worse than its stock price plunge and worried press accounts suggest.
Read more...Until 1968, Presidential Candidates Were Picked by Party Conventions – A Process Revived by Biden’s Withdrawal From Race
Biden’s “decline” and withdrawal from the race is already being blamed on voters and used as an argument to return the candidate-selection process to an elite group of party insiders.
Read more...As New Campaign Implores Him to ‘Pass the Torch,’ Biden Rejects Calls to Drop Out
A shadowy group of Democrat insiders leads the effort to pick the party’s nominee in smoke-filled room.
Read more...The EU ‘Doom Loop’: Bloc Set to Embrace More Austerity Despite Evidence It Will Cause Further Rightward Shift
The National Rally wins first round in France. Why do the self-described centrists keep making it so easy for the far right?
Read more...How Corporations Are Fueling Geopolitical Tensions and Global Conflicts in the 21st Century
Multinational corporations with global reach are increasingly getting entangled in conflicts and geopolitical rivalries by supporting multiple sides.
Read more...A National Cartel Fixing Rental Housing Prices: The Scandal Continues to Grow
The company at the heart of the rapacious conspiracy finally makes a statement following FBI raid in Atlanta and increasingly incriminating and devastating details.
Read more...Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
The Elon Musk $48 Billion stock-option package and its implications for the EV transition
Read more...The EU “Center” Embraces the Right Kind of “Right”
A look at Europe’s elections and a comparison of the neoliberal, pro-war center with a right that abandons its EU and NATO skepticism begs the question, what’s the difference between the two?
Read more...Book Review: Truth and Consequences for Medical Whistleblowers
In “The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” Carl Elliott notes that those who expose medical wrongdoings are hardly heroes.
Read more...The War Racket in Germany
What happens when everyone starts to believe in the con?
Read more...Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
Faulty lead test kits made by Magellan Diagnostics may have been used as late as 2021 to test children for exposure to the toxic metal. The company agreed to pay $42 million to settle criminal charges that it concealed malfunctions.
Read more...Italy Pipes Up Against NATO Escalation as Court Ruling Could Cut Off Russian Gas Sooner Than Expected
Italy also faces major energy squeeze from Red Sea crisis. Will opposition to Project Ukraine solidify or will Rome go along as it usually does?
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