‘Another Gift’ to Big Business as Trump Treasury Moves to Eliminate Rules Against Corporate Tax Avoidance
Another day, another Trump gift to the wealthy, this one in the form of a corporate tax break.
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Neoliberalism Tells Us We’re Selfish Souls – How Can We Promote Other Identities?
Public support for co-operation, collective ownership and mutual care have persisted, despite the popularity of some of the neoliberal agenda. What policies could the left pursue to build from where we are now?
Read more...The Oil Mystery Undermining An Aramco IPO
Why might investors be skittish about Aramco’s oil reserve claims?
Read more...Will the Public End up Paying to Clean up the Fracking Boom?
Justin Mikulka continues his excellent coverage of fracking for DeSmogBlog.
Read more...Facebook’s Libra Faceplant: Beware of CEO Bright Ideas
Libra is going nowhere fast.
Read more...Trump’s Border Wall is a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Handout
How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.
Read more...California’s New Transparency Law Reveals Steep Rise In Wholesale Drug Prices
Drug price data in Califorinia shows mind-boggling increases in wholesale prices since 2019. Of course, the industry claims that that information is misleading.
Read more...Uber to Owe UK >£1 Billion in VAT if It Loses Appeal on Suit on Driver Status, Also Loses Liability Insurer
More bad news for Uber.
Read more...Marketers Want Even More Control Over Hospitals
Another distubing example of MBA infestation at hospitals.
Read more...Bill Black: Eric Holder is the Official Missing from Discussions of the Bidens’ Ukrainian Efforts
How the Bidens’ Ukraine scandal has been a big gift to Trump, but the biggest was Eric Holder’s refusal to prosecute bank executives.
Read more...Announcing the First Winner of the Archie McCardell Award for Truly Horrendous Management: WeWork
Introducing serial leading company wrecker Archie McCardell, and noteworthy successors to him, with WeWork as a first object lesson.
Read more...Will the Fracking Revolution Peak Before Ever Making Money?
Latest installment in Justin Mikulka’s excellent DeSmogBlog series on fracking follies.
Read more...Trump’s Executive Order is a Backdoor Privatization of Medicare
Why Trump’s “expansion” of Medicare Advantage is an insurer boondoggle at the expense of taxpayers and patients.
Read more...From 2014: R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings
ive years later, Richard Smiths’s 2014 deep dive into Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings, then and now of Hunter Biden fame, provides detail you won’t find anywhere else.
Read more...We Can’t Rely on Corporations to Reform Themselves – We Must Challenge Their Power
Corporations cross their hearts and swear that they’ll care about more than executive and director pay and stock prices.
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