Today on TAP: Foreclosure activist-turned-journalist Lisa Epstein’s work leads to another victory over a predatory company.
CEOs
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Billionaires Are an Unreliable Foundation for a Free Press
Today on TAP: Jeff Bezos won’t cut a check to prevent layoffs at The Washington Post, even after years of profits.
Posted inWorking in America
How Faux-Progressive Starbucks Is Fighting Unionization
Denying raises to its unionized baristas appears to be an effective, if illegal, tactic—at least, until the NLRB clamps down on it.
Posted inBooks
The Enablers of Predatory Capitalism
How free-market economists, central bankers, rapacious CEOs, and free-trade diplomats undermined the New Deal order
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Woke Corporations? That Ain’t What the Numbers Show.
Today on TAP: New survey finds growing numbers of Republicans in executive suites.
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Man Bites Dog: Mega-Corporation Says It’s OK With Its Workers Unionizing
Today on TAP: Parting company with almost every other U.S. big business, Microsoft says it won’t oppose employee unionization.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Multimillion-Dollar Game
He is spending prodigious amounts on lobbying and elections to ensure that crypto is lightly regulated in the future.
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Elon Musk, American Oligarch
Today on TAP: It’s a billionaire’s world, everyone else just lives here.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tax Breaks Cushion Tesla’s Texas Landing
The company pledges jobs, but the history of economic development incentives shows that many communities give up more than they get.
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Starbucks Turns to Its Venerable Union-Buster
Today on TAP: Longtime CEO Howard Schultz has returned, apparently to squelch his baristas’ campaign for a voice on the job.
