Newark There was a day when corporate megastars, puffed up by their own press releases and a fawning media were the heroes of their time, sometimes even mentioned for higher public office, like Lee Iacocca, then heralded as the savior of Chrysler, remember Chrysler? Or, Jack Welch, who made General Electric into a conglomerate, though …
Category: Corporations
Lies, Videotape, and Tucker Carlson
New Orleans It’s one thing for Fox’s Tucker Carlson to make a deal with the devil, my soul for higher viewer numbers, but it’s another thing for the rest of us to have to live with the blowback from all of his lying ways. I can honestly say that I’ve never listened to one-minute …
Beware Business on the Ballot: Marijuana and Lotteries
Marble Falls In nineteen states and the District of Columbia, recreational marijuana has been legalized. Another five states have the issue on the ballot during the midterms: Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota. You’d think that if you added all of that up, it would look like half of the United …