| Jan 24, 2018 | Economy / BusinessIn September, the giant retail monopolist Amazon announced its intention to build a second corporate headquarters in Someplace, North America. Where’s that? Aha, that’s the trick in a corporate game called “Fleece the Taxpayer.” CEO Jeff Bezos...
| Jan 17, 2018 | Economy / BusinessWould you give your house key to a complete stranger, letting that person (whose name you don’t even know) walk right into your home when you’re not there? One stranger who’s brazenly asking you and millions of other people to do just that is Jeff...
| Nov 8, 2017 | Economy / BusinessCharles Dickens opened A Tale of Two Cities, perhaps his most famous tome, with the now iconic line, βIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times.β The book is set in London and Paris during the late 1700s, the lead up to the French Revolution. While...
| | Economy / BusinessIsn’t it funny that right-wing politicians across the country piously rant against giving a few bucks worth of jobless benefits to the needy β then turn around and shove billions of our tax dollars into corporate welfare for the greedy? You’re right....