Does the pharmacy industry trend to locking up products contribute to the problem?
A $50 million fine here, another $50 million there and soon — well, companies still won’t care.
“My wife’s nurse had to stand for 30 mins & administer a drug slowly through a syringe because there are almost no IV bags in the continental U.S. anymore.”
“‘Locally rich’ white people, those who had higher incomes than others in their zip codes, were much more likely to support Trump than those who were locally poor. These people might make less money than a wealthy person in a big city, but were doing relatively well when compared to their neighbors.”
“It makes you feel enslaved.” — a look at how farmers are forcing field hands to pay for overpriced food.
“In most rich countries, people don’t have to worry about sifting through a dozen different health plans — and they don’t live in fear of losing their health care after losing a job, and they receive more affordable, higher-quality care than Americans do.”
How the North Carolina homebuilding industry blocks regulations that could reduce flood risk. Florida’s insurance situation is a nightmare too.
With conservatives making DEI a cussword, corporations look at ways to transform it. Some simply give up — the obvious question is whether they ever really cared.
“sShool buses have entered a phase known in mass transit circles as a “death spiral,” in which declining service quality leads to declining ridership, which justifies further service cuts.”
“The rule requires businesses to get consumers’ consent for subscriptions, auto-renewals and free trials that convert to paid memberships. The cancellation method must be “at least as easy to use” as the sign up process.” Unsurprisingly telecoms are suing to kill the rule.
Corporate America already killed a ban on noncompete agreements.
“Private equity is buying out all the smaller legal printers and consolidating everything in the hands of the single Counsel Press. Which already kind of sucks, but when private equity inevitably makes it suck more, no one is going to be able to file their SCOTUS briefs anymore.”
The Biden administration laid down financial rules for financial advisers whose commissions influence their recommendations. Lobbyists block this.
Claims Elon Musk is a free-speech believer overlook that he wants to sue people for not advertising on X.
“New technologies can give corporations tools for monitoring, managing, and motivating their workforces, sometimes in ways that are harmful. The technology itself might not be innately nefarious, but it makes it easier for companies to maintain tight control on workers and squeeze and exploit them to maximize profits.”
Allegedly the head of George Mason University’s Global Antitrust Institute was bought and paid for by monopolists.
Ben Shapiro’s deep thoughts: Social Security is bad because retiring in your 60s is bad because once you retire you die. As I’ve observed before, it’s easy to scoff at retirement when your job involves as little physical effort as Shapiro (not much mental effort either, in his case).
To end, some good news:
A lawsuit to kill the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau was so weak even Clarence Thomas scoffed.
The Biden Treasury Dept. has recovered more than $1.3 billion from wealthy tax cheats.
Joe Biden appointee Lina Khan has been a dynamic trust buster.
I’ve written before about “pre-emptive compliance” where people anticipate fascists’ demands and carry them out beforehand. That’s how I’d class the WaPo not endorsing a candidate (some of their staff are outspoken in their objections) The LA Times publisher refused to let the editorial board endorse Harris; to their credit, several prominent journalists up and quit. The NY Post has reconsidered its former denunciation of Trump: they’re endorsing the felon.
