With their mega-purchase up for administration approval, they compelled CBS News to honor Trump last week.
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Spirit Socialism: Trump’s vs. Ours
The proposed bailout of Spirit Airlines is Trump’s worst deal yet. But in clean hands, socialized ownership sometimes makes sense.
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The Warner Bros. Sale to the Ellisons Illustrates Perfectly Why Shareholder Capitalism Is a Disaster
99 percent of the company’s institutional shareholders voted to approve it. An equivalent share of the company’s workers and Hollywood generally opposed it.
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The Diplomat, the Fashion Channel, and Jeffrey Epstein
Ex-fashion mogul and U.S. Special Envoy Paolo Zampolli has a long relationship with FashionTV, which Epstein nearly bought and whose founder Michel Adam Lisowski has been accused of multiple instances of sexual misconduct.
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The Deal That Could Destroy Hollywood
Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. would be a huge blow to filmmakers and film lovers alike.
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Organized Money: How AIPAC Tries to Dominate the Business of Politics
Are American voters changing their minds about the Israel lobby in American politics?
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Khan vs. Cutter: A Tale of Two Careers
It was the age of corruption, and maybe, it was also the age of integrity.
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Greed Flows South
Some of our billionaires feel comfortable only in states of the neo-Confederacy.
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The Private Credit Cartels
Wall Street wants you to believe AI is to blame for the incipient credit crisis. But the crappy software loans spooking investors are the products of old-economy greed and brazen collusion.
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The Far-Right Cash Machine
There’s money in bigotry, and specialized crowdfunding platforms are where to get it.