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The New York Times lead story describes how a series of private equity firms managed to repeatedly flip the venerable Simmons mattress company, earning themselves huge profits while the company became increasingly mired in debt and ultimately forced into bankruptcy and massive layoffs, with ordinary investors, employees, and company retirees taking a huge hit. I […]
Workers’ rights issues play out in boardrooms across the US.
President Donald Trump’s tax reform outline calls for eliminating breaks for special interests, while dramatically lowering the overall corporate tax rate. But certain tax loopholes for Big Oil have proven especially difficult, even dangerous, to remove.
It certainly is strange that Taylor Budowich took time out from the chaos of the day to create a new corporate entity — and later made that entity a party to a lawsuit to protect his financial records from congressional scrutiny.
The election of Donald Trump has spawned a new protest movement in the United States. Modern technology now allows participants in marches and rallies to document their experience and share it with others. Many people do so on their own social media accounts. However, there are ways of making images available to a much […]
If you’d invested a trillion dollars in something, you’d definitely want a positive return. Yet the latest iteration of the military industrial complex, exemplified by the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, seems only to have produced more war, more terrorism, more surveillance and more presidential protection blunders. You can blame it on 9/11, but the blueprints were already there.
As Republicans are increasingly comfortable with echoing the ideas and talking points of white nationalists, Democrats see an opportunity.
The censored chapter of the Joint Inquiry report was kept from the public for over 13 years. Now we know the real reasons why.
Climate tech startup Living Carbon is developing genetically engineered poplar trees that it says can absorb more carbon. Some say the company is rushing to commercialize its “supertrees.”
It still seems to be an election hinging on which candidate voters worry the most about.
Those of you following the prosecution trail will be interested to know that Patrick Leahy’s Truth Commission is a no-go. I was in a meeting with Leahy and 4 other Vermonters on Monday when he broke the news to us. We had asked for the meeting to learn why he supported a Truth Commission over […]
Did Donald Trump and oil and gas executives strike a deal in which the latter would raise $1 billion for the former president’s campaign in return for a promise that he would then roll back environmental regulations? House Democrats want to know… and they have some questions for Big Oil.