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Four decades of intensifying corporate concentration turned the music industry into a wasteland of institutionalized control and abuse. Are antitrust enforcers ready to reckon with that? Five years ago, Britney [...]

The constitutional grant of a second chance for the destitute has become an enabler of reverse wealth redistribution. One wild case in Houston tells the story. One afternoon in March [...]

About a decade ago, a hedge fund manager (who asked to remain nameless) got a call from a young short seller about a pharma company whose stock price they were [...]

Meet a millennial family physician who is also a one-woman antidote to private equity and the forces that have destroyed compassionate treatment for patients. I wanted to be an anthropologist. [...]

No one in the coastal farming town of Watsonville, California, was much impressed when the cash-strapped owner of their struggling hospital, Quorum Health, announced in June 2019 that it was [...]

Just over 28 years ago, Taylor Swift was a precocious Montessori preschooler growing up on a Pennsylvania Christmas tree farm, and Eddie Vedder was the Most Important Musician in America, [...]

Flying Blind: The 737 max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing By Peter Robison Doubleday Every few years, a photo makes the Reddit rounds of three Soviet apparatchiks in hats [...]

The Old Post Office building in Washington, with its observation tower that looms over the Federal Triangle, once housed Donald Trump's hotel, but it was converted into a Waldorf Astoria [...]

Like everyone hates on Nickelback because at one point it just became cool to hate on them, but the reality is they didn't sell 50 million albums because everyone hated [...]

Maureen Dittmar of Rochester, New Hampshire, was sifting through junk mail one Saturday in early August when she found an envelope obviously sent by a human being. It began: 'The [...]

The article discusses the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, emphasizing his pivotal role in organizing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom despite facing discrimination due to his sexuality. Topics include Rustin's activism for civil rights, his struggles as a gay man in the civil rights movement, and the intersectionality of his personal and political life.

The article focuses on the exploitative practices of pharmaceutical companies in inflating drug prices, particularly for rare diseases. Topics include a hedge fund manager's involvement in a plan to manipulate drug prices, the rise of exorbitant pricing strategies by pharmaceutical companies exemplified by Martin Shkreli's actions, the prevalence of orphan drugs and their impact on the industry, and the drug prices in the U.S.

The article discusses the role that managerial changes in the airplane manufacturer Boeing played in the 2018 737 MAX jet accident. An overview of Boeing's cultural change from a focus on airplane safety to increasing financing and corporate profits, including in regard to not letting the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) know of the changes in the 737's design and to the plane's computer software changes known as MCAS, is provided.

The article discusses the legal battles faced by Adam Neumann, founder of real estate company WeWork. Topics covered include the 1.9 billion U.S. dollars in losses reported by WeWork in 2018, the company's culture of tyrannical partying, and the bailout package offered to Neumann by Japanese investor SoftBank.

THE SUMMER after she turned 16, Ninotchka 'Nina' Garcia found herself in the crossfire of a mafia shoot-out. She was eating a late dinner with her friends at a trendy [...]

John Perkins' book, 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man', discusses about his post of an economic hit man at the engineering firm Chas T. Main Incorporated where his job was to generate wildly optimistic economic forecasts that international banks would use to justify big loans to developing countries for their infrastructure. This book contains Perkins' true confessions about scheming against other countries to ensnare them in a web of debt and use them to US' advantage.

Various reasons like bad law and order; high labor wages, powerful labor unions, labor-favored laws etc. have been cited for companies like Nike, a sports shoe company to shift its business from Indonesia to countries like China, Vietnam and Thailand where labor related problems are less. The reasons for the closure of IndonesiaEs Doson Indonesia, a Korean-Indonesian collaboration that made shoes for Nike has been described.

Focuses on Richard Li, son of Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing, and his plans for developing China's telecommunication industry. Companies controlled by father and son, including Pacific Century CyberWorks and Cable & Wireless HKT, which together account for more than a quarter of the capitalization of the Hong Kong stock market; Biographical details and the private nature of the relationship between father and son; Highlights of Richard Li's career in telecommunications.