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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Disney Launches a Blitzkrieg in the Streaming Wars
And it’s doing so by leveraging its market power in extreme, perhaps illegal ways.
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Chuck Schumer Has an Important Choice to Make on Regulatory Personnel
By custom, the Senate minority leader has broad authority to name commissioners to independent agencies. Schumer must select Democrats willing to take on corporate power.
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Going to Pot: Be Careful What You Wish For
Today on TAP: Corporate capitalism will ruin cannabis, too
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Big Tech’s Yes Men Reassure Each Other at Harvard Law Conference
A conference featuring a who’s who of Silicon Valley defenders preaches to the converted, with Trump antitrust regulators participating.
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Kyrsten Sinema, the Only Anti-Net Neutrality Dem, Linked to Super PAC Run by a Comcast Lobbyist
The super PAC has made independent political expenditures to support Sinema’s elections, and Sinema has directed donations to it through a PAC she used to chair.
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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.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Ridiculous D.C. Invite of the Week: Leadership Lessons from PG&E’s Former CEO
Geisha Williams will speak at the Bob and Elizabeth Dole Leadership Series.
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Pentagon Awards Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract to Microsoft. Will Amazon Appeal?
Experts say Amazon could mount a strong protest to Microsoft’s victory.
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Boeing Is Basically a State-Funded Company
So why don’t we get a vote on its leadership?