“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
How an out-of-control opioid industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale.
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Wolf Richter: The Big Amazon Subsidy is Doomed
Amazon is losing more and more ground to states out to collect sales taxes.
Read more...Naked Capitalism: Skewering Three Trumpitudes, Promoting Critical Thinking, and Rejecting Conventional Wisdom
Help us continue to chart our independent course through hazardous waters, skewering Trumpitudes, sloppy thinking, and other fallacies.
Read more...Facebook’s Fake Numbers: Parsing Facebook’s “Reach” Inflation
Facebook tells Big Lies about its users. Why aren’t advertisers making a Big Stink?
Read more...Uber Board Members Kiss and Make Up (for Now), but Long-Term Problems Remain
Uber may have bought itself more time with a conditional pact among its big shareholders, but it hasn’t solved its fundamental problems.
Read more...Will Retailers Switch to a Price Tag System That Screws Customers at Every Opportunity?
Beware! Retailers are trying to implement smart phone snooping to allow for better price gouging.
Read more...Prosecution Futures? Multibillion Dollar Orders in Coinbase Trading Platform
Some mighty strange, and mighty big, orders in a Coinbase trading platform order book…..
Read more...Amazon’s Inhuman Customer Service Issues Death Sentence to Local Library Fundraising
Amazon is mean.
Read more...CalPERS Board Candidate Margaret Brown Objects to Unconstitutional, Non-Secret, Insecure, Unauditable Election; Vendor Handling Phone and Internet Voting Criticized for Incompetence, Exaggerating Security of On-Line Voting
CalPERS’ election procedures would embarrass any self-respecting banana republic.
Read more...Cybersecurity Ain’t the Only Game in Town: The Scams Multiply
Cybersecurity is much in today’s news, but it’s not the only source of scams– which are much more omnipresent than in the past.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Obama Follows Clinton, Boards the Millionaire Speech Train to Wall Street
Like Bill Clinton before him, ex-President Barack Obama has boarded the Wall Street-financed train to millionaire riches.
Read more...Toys R Us: Another Private Equity Casualty
What killed Toys R US? Amazon,Walmart? The numbers say the company’s yet the latest in a string of retail casualties to private equity greed.
Read more...Bill Black: Massachusetts First to Sue Equifax Over Massive Hack
Several government agencies and at least 34 state attorneys general have opened probes into the Equifax data-breach scandal–‘the gift that keeps on giving,’ says Bill Black.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Reports on SoftBank Offer for Uber….Yet No Other Press Outlet is Picking the Story Up
Why are major media outlets uncharacteristically ignoring a big SoftBank-Uber story that the Wall Street Journal broke yesterday?
Read more...More Signs of Private Equity Market Frenzy: Firms Selling Stakes
Yet more evidence that the private equity market is overheated.
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