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The author reflects on U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with regard to his campaign strategies, views on various political and social issues, and impact on the Republican Paty.

The author reflects on American hedge fund manager Bill Ackman of hedge fund firm Pershing Square Capital Management LP with regard to his proposal to merge railroad companies Canadian Pacific Railway Co. and Norfolk Southern.

The author discusses business of Chipotle, chain of restaurants in the U. S., along with its food poisoning cases, its challenges in the business, and its plans to keep serving fresh, raw, and unprocessed food.

The author discusses the 2008 financial crisis in the U.S. which was featured at the film "The Big Short" in which financial services firms were widely affected.

The author comments on the efforts of the U.S. government to address domestic terrorist threats.

The author discusses issues related to racism in the U.S., citing reference to a report of House Financial Services Committee of the U.S. Congress regarding alleged race discrimination associated with auto loans claimed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as of December 2015.

The author discusses the effects of the U.S. corporate tax rate to chief executive officer (CEO) Ian Read of biopharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc.

The author discusses ways U.S. automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) could have got a free pass from the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara over allegations that ignition switch in its Chevy Cobalts and other cars could bee turned off by just a knee bump.

The author comments on the issues of nitrogen-oxide rules in the U.S. and the investments made by automakers to comply the rules, highlighting the emission scandal face by German automaker company Volkswagen AG as of September 2015.

The author cites some examples from contemporary political culture in the U.S. that illustrate how the elites start with the best intention but necessarily serve themselves, with topics that include green energy, labor unions, and central banking.

The author comments on the Internet policy in the U.S. which favors streaming media company Netflix, that is consuming one-third of the expensively rolled-out bandwidth.

The author criticizes U.S. Democrats and liberal activists for using the issue of executive compensation for political purposes ahead of the 2016 election and mentions a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requiring companies to show top executives' pay in relation to median workers'.

The author comments on Tesla vice president of business development Diarmuid O'Connell's call for tougher fuel-mileage mandates in the U.S. and mentions topics including the electric car maker's tax credit goals and the view that the mileage rules will not have major impact on climate change.

The author discusses the highlights of the Hoover Institution's forum on June 25, 2015 on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Great Britain's Magna Carta, with economist John Cochrane expressing his concern that the U.S. is drifting toward a corporation system with reduced political freedom.

The author examines the content of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's capital-gains plan including her criticism against the quarterly capitalism and her aim for a long-term growth.

In this article the author comments on Uber Technologies Inc., a transporation network in the U.S., saying it was benefiting politically from a new round of venture funding that valued the startup at nearly 20 billion dollars.

In the article, the author discusses developments in the U.S. telecommunications industry as of June 2015, particularly the criticism hurled by T-Mobile chief executive officer (CEO) John Legere against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over spectrum utilization.

The author comments on a survey which revealed that majority of the 8 million enrollees in the ObamaCare are satisfied with their health plans, emphasizing that the survey failed to consider the views of the 12 million eligible people who declined to enroll in the new marketplace plan.

The author shares his reflections on how Google's self-driving cars could make other drivers in the U.S. worse by exploiting the algorithms of the cars and by strategizing against such cars.

The author asserts that U.S. taxpayers have contributed to the success of entrepreneur Elon Musk whose endeavors have been largely helped by government tax credits.

The author comments on the acquisition of Internet provider AOL by telecommunications company Verizon Communications and mentions topics such as the dial-up business of AOL in the 1990s, AOL's merger with media company Time Warner, and reasons behind Verizon's decision to purchase the company.

The article discusses the decline in Medicare spending growth from 2011 to 2014 due to the drug benefit and better health demographics and partially due to the Affordable Care Act.

The author comments on the digital subscriber line (DSL) technology breakthroughs in the U.S. in 2014 and on the investment by companies in hoping to bring faster Internet to Americans in 2015.

The author offers insights on the response of the U.S. on energy issues concerning oil production and its declining prices.

The article presents the author's opinion that Detroit, Michigan's reliance on private donors and charity, including transferring control of the Detroit Institute for the Arts to private donors, is not a sign or symbol of the city's recovery but indicative of economic weakness following the city's bankruptcy trial.

The author gives an opinion on U.S. President Barack Obama's recommendation to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for the Internet to be classified as a public utility, the imposition of net neutrality and price regulation, and criticizes the legislative process.

The author discusses a labor dispute over the leadership of the supermarket chain Market Basket, questioning whether the protest really benefitted the workers or whether it was a corporate fight between chief executive officer (CEO) Arthur T. Demoulas and his cousins who owned majority stake.

The author looks at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's likely antitrust scrutiny of the proposed merger of tobacco firms Reynolds American and Lorillard, criticizing the government's dependence on revenue from cigarettes, including the settlement of anti-tobacco lawsuits, and citing e-cigarettes.

In this article the author argues against the popular revolt in 2014 against the U.S. Export-Import Bank and programs that the author feels should outrage Americans, including agricultural subsidies to wealthy farmers, a tax benefit for employer-provided health insurance, and Medicare.

In this article the author discusses how the U.S. automobile industry is exploiting automobile recalls by companies such as General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. in 2014 by sending mailings that look like recall notifications to lure customers to dealerships.

The author criticizes U.S. government policies related to the automobile industry as of 2014 in the context of car company General Motors's (GM's) safety recall related to defective ignition switches, discussing the fine levied on GM and the impact of fuel economy standards on car design.

The author discusses the alleged problems of net-neutrality facing Tom Wheeler, the chief of the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC), with details on the possibility of differentiated services offered by Internet and cable servers, not blocking or slowing of the Internet.

In this article the author the speed and pricing of broadband communication in the U.S. on topics including price discrimination, Internet company Google's optical fiber-to-the-premises service called Google FIber, and a historical overview of broadband in the U.S.

The article presents the author's opinion of U.S. President Barack Obama's bureaucracy in the second term of his presidency with details focusing on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and bureaucracy in the government’s regulation of the TV (television) broadcasting industry.

The author argues that the U.S. cable television industry has witnessed several developments since the arrival of satellite television services in the mid-1990s, focusing on the merger of the Time Warner Cable and Comcast cable television providers, as well as broadband competition in the U.S.

The author seeks to provide perspective on a controversy in the U.S. about collection by the National Security Agency of metadata pertaining to phone calls by pointing out that government and industry collect copious amounts of far more personal data about consumers via legal and non-covert means.

The author discusses the U.S. United Automobile Workers (UAW) union's loss in an election at the Volkswagen (VW) automobile plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee as of February 2014, with topics including the views on labor unions by VW management, and German-style labor management.

The author discusses instances of power transformers in the U.S. being damaged by citizen attacks with weapons as of February 2014, with a focus on an attack on the Metcalf substation in California which investigators suggest could indicate an impending terrorist attack on the national power grid.

The author discusses safety ratings of minicars, or light-weight subcompact cars, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an independent testing lab, as of January 2014, with information on U.S. government legislation for fuel-economy standards within the automobile industry.

The author offers opinions on All Aboard Florida, a railroad under construction in that state, praising it as an example of how transportation can be improved without any government action to do so.

The author discusses the implementation of the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as of January 2014, arguing that some supporters of the legislation are beginning to seek reforms as they realize that the law redistributes, rather than reforms, U.S. health care.