Biden Gives Activist Shareholders A Leg Up
Proposed new SEC rules could give activist shareholders more power than ever before — but will it be enough to shift corporate behavior?
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Amazon Joins The Medicare Privatization Spree
The retail behemoth has acquired One Medical, which is in the Medicare privatization business.
Intel Begs For A Bailout
Company CEO Pat Gelsinger says semiconductor firms need subsidies to invest domestically — but there’s little guarantee the giveaway will actually help.
Pritzker’s NRA Hospitality
As an assault weapons ban languished in his state’s legislature, Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker's family hotel chain reaped gun lobby cash.
How To Crack Down On Corporate Profiteering
The Biden administration could investigate whether corporations are illegally colluding when they announce price increases and production limits.
The Modern-Day Captains Of Industry Linked To The Nazis
The new book Nazi Billionaires traces the long, cozy relationship between capitalism and the Third Reich.
How Corporate America’s Favorite Legal Trick Is Backfiring
For decades, companies have used arbitration agreements to shirk responsibilities to their customers and employees — but now the tables have turned.
Citizen Bezos Logs On
The Washington Post owner is using social media to weaponize his paid punditry and send a message about his news preferences.
How Wall Street Is Taking Over Medicare
Biden’s expansion of a new, insidious form of for-profit Medicare is benefitting private equity firms and well-connected health care giants.
Amazon Gets Huge Contract Despite Biden’s Union Pledge
The president promised to halt federal contracts to union busters — but the deal was just re-awarded to Amazon while the company was crushing a union drive.