Do CEOs Get Paid for Taking Big Risks? The Big Ones Don’t
2016-10-06 – The New York Times revelation of Donald Trump’s $915 million tax loss from 1995 is not only a problem for his campaign, it ought to be a problem […]
Tag Archives: Corporations
The Challenges of Obamacare
2016-08-18 – I went yesterday to pick up a new prescription. I had a new insurer, so I handed the pharm tech the new card and he went tap-tap-tap on the […]
Apple Is Rotten to the Core
2016-07-03 – I don’t pay much attention to tech controversies. I don’t really care if Facebook changes algorithms. I know I should but I don’t. Al Gore could have been […]
Good! They Got Him! 1% Scum!
2015-12-17 – “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli was arrested today! They carted him away wearing a hoodie. Yay! The system works . . . uh, wait a minute. If you’ve managed […]
Middle-Aged White American Males
2015-11-15 – Paul Krugman is looking for the source of despair among middle-aged white American males. It seems that we are indulging in self-destructive behavior—suicide, drugs and alcohol, voting Republican—more […]
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Succeed
2015-10-15 – The Democrats debate banks that are too big to fail. The Republicans debate government that is too big to succeed. And nobody seems to grasp the obvious similarity. […]
Marriage, Not a Corporation
2015-06-28 – Until Friday, I was of the opinion that gay lovers might have more legal success cementing their union by forming a corporation than by getting married. But on […]
No Trophies Just for Participating?
2015-05-03 – There’s an ecard floating around the Internet that goes like this: “I’m afraid of a world run by adults who were never spanked as kids and got trophies […]
What We Need Is an Official Fake Congress
2015-03-15 – What we need is an official Fake Congress. When I first started thinking about this, I thought it might be a good idea to have a place to […]
I’m Being Followed Around by a Eureka Hand-Held Vacuum
2014-10-23 – I am being followed around by a Eureka hand-held vacuum cleaner. And it sucks! It’s not the actual vacuum cleaner. It’s an ad for the vacuum cleaner that […]
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