The infrastructure arm of the California and Texas utility owner has lobbied for gas exports that could raise prices for its own customers.
corporate power
Posted inBooks
Days of Plunder
Two new books call ‘private equity’ what it actually is, but neither offers much hope for emancipation from our eternal hostile takeover.
Posted inEducation in America
The Companies AI Might Replace Aren’t Exactly Good
A review of Chegg, an online education tutor that’s threatened by ChatGPT, suggests that a bigger problem than AI is what we allow businesses to get away with.
Posted inTAP
The Bill That Would Stop Buybacks
Today on TAP: To be introduced later today, this House bill would stop the massive diversion of corporate revenues into CEOs’ pockets.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Washington Bargained Away Rural America
Every five years, the farm bill brings together Democrats and Republicans who are normally at each other’s throats. The result is the continued corporatization of agriculture.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Lose-Lose DeSantis-Disney Fight
As Disney cancels investments in Florida, the proxy culture war masks a battle between a governor pretending to slay big business and a mega-corporation wanting to entrench its power.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Quackonomics
Medical Properties Trust spent billions buying community hospitals in bewildering deals that made private equity rich and working-class towns reel.
Posted inWorking in America
Curtailing Starbucks’s War on Its Unionized Baristas
The company is giving raises, but only to workers who haven’t unionized. That’s likely illegal, but the NLRB has yet to stop it.
Posted inTAP
How Wall Street Feeds Itself
Today on TAP: Stock buybacks hit new records last year. They should be banned outright.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The IRS Takes a Welcome Step Into the 20th Century
Maybe by 2100 America can have a proper tax authority.
