late stage capitalism Stock buybacks: how Wall Street has created "profits without prosperity" Cory Doctorow
class war Bernie Sanders introduces the Stop Walmart Act: no stock buybacks without a $15 minimum wage Cory Doctorow
Business Apple's world-beating financial engineering is teaching the corporate world how to exploit Trump's tax cuts Cory Doctorow
corruption Wells Fargo cuts 26,500 jobs, shutters branches, declares "excess capital" and drops $40.6 billion on stock buybacks Cory Doctorow
class war Trump's sweetheart tax deal for economically useless financial engineering triggers a stock buyback bonanza Cory Doctorow
class war Bernie Sanders: Trump just used your taxes to reward Carrier for offshoring American jobs Cory Doctorow
class war Giving companies more money (loans, tax-breaks) only increases investor payouts, not expansion Cory Doctorow
kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow
health Big Pharma's origin: how the Chicago School and private equity shifted medicine's focus from health to wealth Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Texas Instrument's post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering Cory Doctorow
Business California's Right to Repair Bill, killed by Big Ag and Apple, has been reintroduced Cory Doctorow
class war Trump gave AT&T a $20B tax break and killed Net Neutrality, now they're prepping mass layoffs Cory Doctorow
Business Amid wage stagnation, corporate leaders declare the end of annual raises triggered by increased profitability Cory Doctorow
corruption Candid Wall Street barons worry that GOP tax plan will lead to literal euthanasia of the rentier Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Trump's top economic advisor asks CEOs to raise hands if they're going to use tax cuts to invest, boggled by no one raising hands Cory Doctorow
