Today on TAP: Unless Tesla shareholders grant him this tidy bonus, he’s threatened to take his marbles elsewhere.
CEOs
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Democracy, Deshmocracy: Mega-Financiers Are Flocking to Trump
Today on TAP: Leading Wall Street and Silicon Valley pooh-bahs believe the tax cuts he’ll give them are a bigger deal than preserving democratic norms.
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The Mega-Donor Who Colluded With OPEC
Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield was banned from ExxonMobil’s board after a merger for conspiring to keep gas prices high.
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Whistleblower Laws That Protect Lawbreakers
The late whistleblower John Barnett described Boeing as a psychological torture chamber for anyone who cared about safety. A 2000 law makes fighting back nearly impossible.
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A Fix for Tesla’s Troubles? Paying Elon a Cool $56 Billion, Of Course.
Today on TAP: You were thinking they’d invest in better, more affordable cars?
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My Dinner With Andreessen
Billionaires I have known: Part One of a three-part series
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Answering Musk’s and Bezos’s Attacks on Workers’ Rights
Today on TAP: With big money counting on the courts, progressives are taking the fight to the court of public opinion.
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Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
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Davos in the Desert, on the Coast
In Miami, leading lights from tech, finance, media, and entertainment gathered at the Saudi investment conference, yet another attempt to sanitize the autocratic regime.
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Blowing the Door Off Boeing’s ‘Epstein Deal’
The lawyer who busted open Jeffrey Epstein’s sweetheart deal sues DOJ for the goods on Trump’s slimy deferred prosecution agreement with the 737 manufacturer.
