On Tuesday, the Southern District of New York and the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a series of indictments against one of the ten largest drug distributors in the US, Rochester Drug Co-Operative, and two former executives, the CEO and the chief compliance officer, and the latter has pled guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. […]
Read more...The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking follies.
Read more...Uber’s financial data in its S-1 filing is misleading and even inconsistent.
Read more...Debenhams follows the sad and well trodden path of retailers bought by private equity firms.
Read more...The World Bank continues its proud tradition of making the world safe for rentiers, um, financiers.
Read more...Ukrainian dirt on the Bidens is languishing! Why is that?
Read more...Time to stop treating people as targets for disease treatments.
Read more...Minnesota may soon be the first state to adopt right to repair legislation, and measures are pending in a total of twenty states. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently endorsed a national right to repair for farm equipment.
Read more...Bill Black uses Tom Friedman’s recognition just this week that Brexit is a mess as the foundation of a detailed takedown of Friedman’s propaganda, um, views.
Read more...To ensure public acceptability, some benefits accrue to many in the early stages of privatization in order to minimize public resistance. However, in the longer term, privatization tends to enrich a few but typically fails to deliver on its ostensible aims.
Read more...Quelle surprise! A one-time tax break for US companies to repatriate offshore profits didn’t stop the gaming, nor did it generate more investment.
Read more...At a G20 preparatory meeting, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees. The panelists didn’t mince words.
Read more...An important Wall Street Journal story digs into how Rick Singer created his college entrance cheating empire.
Read more...Yves here. This post presents a classic example of why medical care in America sucks. It’s too much about billing and not enough about patient care. I know patients who can have a yearly visit to an MD covered under their plan as either a physical or a medium complexity visit for conditions for which […]
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