Today’s CEOs are essentially carnival barkers, induced to yell louder by a corroded business culture.
CEOs
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Altercation: The Facebook Threat to Democracy—and Us All
On the hatred, violence, and lies that further enrich Mark Zuckerberg
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The Return of the Buyback—and Mississippi Rules
Today on TAP: The Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on a Mississippi anti-choice law
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AT&T Wants Backsies
The telecom giant had a great idea to tie up content and distribution networks under one roof. Turned out it wasn’t so great.
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A Tax Hike That Would Play Well at the Polls
Today on TAP: The Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act
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The One Niche Election Victory That Most Delights Me
San Francisco voters opted to raise taxes on companies whose CEOs make a gazillion times what their workers do.
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CEOs: Stakeholders, Shmakeholders
Today on TAP: The Business Roundtable’s broken promise
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Why Billionaires Don’t Really Like Capitalism
There are basically only five ways to accumulate a billion dollars, and none of them has to do with being successful in free market capitalism.
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Big CEOs Persuade the SEC to Tame Shareholder Activism
The Business Roundtable’s vow to be kinder corporate actors was a fig leaf for building fortresses around management decision making.
