J.D. Scholten on How to Revitalize Our Broken Food Systems – [The American Prospect] 05.01.20
How the Parties Play the Coronavirus Response Game in Congress – [The American Prospect] 05.01.20
Exxon Posts Its First Loss in Decades, and Chevron Slashes Spending – [CNN] 05.01.20
Hottest Silicon Valley Start-Ups Begin to Sell Themselves at a Discount – [Financial Times] 05.01.20
How Coronavirus Broke America’s Healthcare System – [Financial Times] 05.01.20
Jeff Bezos Doubles Down on Amazon’s Pandemic Response – [The New York Times] 05.01.20
In Philanthropy, Race Is Still a Factor in Who Gets What, Study Shows – [The New York Times] 05.01.20
A Private Equity Firm Is Blocked From Buying .Org – [The New York Times] 05.01.20
Workers From Amazon, Instacart, and Others Are Calling in Sick to Protest Poor Virus Protections – [The Verge] 05.01.20
Amazon Sales Soar As Coronavirus-Worried Consumers Shop From Home, but Costs Rise – [The Washington Post] 04.30.20
30 Million Americans Have Filed Initial Unemployment Claims Since mid-March – [CNN] 04.30.20
States Made It Harder to Get Jobless Benefits. Now That’s Hard to Undo. – [The New York Times] 04.30.20
Powerful Meat Industry Holds More Sway After Trump’s Order – [The New York Times] 04.30.20
Trump’s Disinfectant Talk Trips Up Sites’ Vows Against Misinformation – [The New York Times] 04.30.20
Why the Global Debt of Poor Nations Must Be Canceled – [The New York Times] 04.30.20
Who’s Profiting From the Coronavirus Crisis? – [The New York Times] 04.30.20
Amazon Is Cracking Down on Internal Communication After a Surge in Worker Activism – [Vox] 04.30.20
Trump Appointees Manipulated Agency’s Payday Lending Research, Ex-Staffer Claims – [The New York Times] 04.30.20
Ohio Top Court Weighs If Amazon Can be Held Liable for Teen’s Death – [Reuters] 04.30.20
How New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Is Using the Pandemic to Consolidate Power – [The Intercept] 04.29.20
Why the US Shouldn’t Let States Go Bankrupt – [Vox] 04.29.20
Worst Economy in a Decade. What’s Next? ‘Worst in Our Lifetime.’ – [The New York Times] 04.29.20
Should There Be Deals During a Pandemic? – [The New York Times] 04.29.20
Despite Widespread Economic Hardship, Most Americans Not Ready to Reopen, Poll Says – [PBS] 04.29.20
Boeing, Expecting a Long Slump, Will Cut 16,000 Jobs – [The New York Times] 04.29.20
Businesses Seek Sweeping Shield From Pandemic Liability Before They Reopen – [The New York Times] 04.29.20
Coronavirus Apps: The Risk of Slipping Into a Surveillance State – [Financial Times] 04.28.20
African Americans Bear the Brunt of Covid-19’s Economic Impact – [The Guardian] 04.28.20
Fired in a Pandemic ‘Because We Tried to Start a Union’ – [The New York Times] 04.28.20
Salesforce and Other Silicon Valley Firms Are Using Corporate Connections to Buy Masks for Hospitals – [The New York Times] 04.28.20
Bankers Rebuke S.B.A. as Loan System Crashes in Flood of Applications – [The New York Times] 04.28.20
Mnuchin Says Relief Loans Over $2 Million Will Be Audited – [The Washington Post] 04.28.20
The Founders Never Intended the U.S. Postal Service to be Managed Like a Business – [The Washington Post] 04.28.20
Supreme Court Rules Insurers Can Collect $12 Billion Under Health Care Law – [Huff Post] 04.27.20
Coronavirus Stimulus Spurs Near-Record First-Quarter Lobbying Spending – [OpenSecrets.org] 04.27.20
The Only Way to Get Back to Normal This Summer Is to Test Everyone in the United States, Says Nobel Prize Winning Economist – [The Washington Post] 04.27.20
McConnell’s Rejection of Federal Aid for States Risks Causing a Depression, Analysts Say – [The Washington Post] 04.27.20
Trump Faces Big Decisions on Energy Industry Rescue as U.S. Runs Out of Places to Store Abundance of Oil – [The Washington Post] 04.27.20
Thousands Already Lined Up for New $310 Billion in Small Business Loans. The Money Could Run Out in Days. – [The Washington Post] 04.27.20
Rent Strike Planned for May 1 as Pain of Coronavirus Deepens – [Wall Street Journal] 04.27.20
Pandemic Triggers a Wave of Distress, Bankruptcy in Corporate America – [Wall Street Journal] 04.27.20
The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing Trump on a Covid-19 Plan – [Wall Street Journal] 04.27.20
WhatsApp Says Its Forwarding Limits Have Cut the Spread of Viral Messages by 70 Percent – [The Verge] 04.27.20
Coronavirus Has Created a Crisis for Primary Care Doctors and Their Patients – [Vox] 04.27.20
Coronavirus Set to Push 29m Latin Americans Into Poverty – [Financial Times] 04.27.20
Coronavirus Bursts the US College Education Bubble – [Financial Times] 04.27.20
Disney and the Unequal Reality of Coronavirus America – [Financial Times] 04.27.20
How Goldman’s Vampire Squid Gave Way to BlackRock – [Financial Times] 04.27.20
Small-Business Loan Program, Chaotic From Start, Gets 2nd Round – [The New York Times] 04.27.20
Start-Ups Pursue ‘Free Money’ With Relief Funds, Prompting Backlash – [The New York Times] 04.27.20
Europe’s Privacy Law Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates – [The New York Times] 04.27.20
Large, Troubled Companies Got Bailout Money in Small-Business Loan Program – [The New York Times] 04.27.20
Closed Hospitals Leave Rural Patients ‘Stranded’ as Coronavirus Spreads – [The New York Times] 04.26.20
Apple and Google Pledge to Shut Down Coronavirus Tracker When Pandemic Ends – [The Verge] 04.24.20
Messenger Rooms Are Facebook’s Answer to Zoom and Houseparty for the Pandemic – [The Verge] 04.24.20
Some Companies Seeking Bailouts Had Piles of Cash, Then Spent It – [The New York Times] 04.24.20
Budget Deficit Will Approach $4 Trillion, C.B.O. Says – [The New York Times] 04.24.20
Frantic for Coronavirus Gear, Americans in Need Turn to China’s Elite – [The New York Times] 04.24.20
Opposed to Bailouts, but in This Case Willing to Take One – [The New York Times] 04.24.20
The Tax-Break Bonanza Inside the Economic Rescue Package – [The New York Times] 04.24.20
Zoom’s Biggest Rivals Are Coming for It – [The New York Times] 04.24.20
Larry Summers Advising Biden Campaign on Economic Recovery – [Bloomberg] 04.23.20
Treasury Secretary Warns There Will Be ‘Severe Consequences’ for Large Companies That Took Bailout Loans Intended for Small Businesses – [Business Insider] 04.23.20
Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products – [Wall Street Journal] 04.23.20
US Jobless Claims of 4.4m Take Pandemic Toll to a Record 26m – [Financial Times] 04.23.20
Why Major Food and Hotel Chains Are Getting Stimulus Money Meant for Small Businesses – [Vox] 04.23.20
Amazon Employees Shared an Event Invite to Discuss How the Company Treats Its Workers. Then It Disappeared. – [Vox] 04.23.20
The New York Times’ Deficit Coverage Is Fake News – [New York] 04.23.20
Disney Heir Criticises $1.5bn in Bonuses and Dividends as Company Cuts Pay – [The Guardian] 04.23.20
Jobless Numbers Are ‘Eye-Watering’ but Understate the Crisis – [The New York Times] 04.23.20
Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon – [The New York Times] 04.23.20
Banks Gave Richest Clients ‘Concierge Treatment’ for Pandemic Aid – [The New York Times] 04.23.20
Publicly Traded Companies Got $300 Million In Small Business Loans: AP Investigation – [Huff Post] 04.22.20
Top Economist: US Coronavirus Response Is Like Third World Country – [The Guardian] 04.22.20
A Disturbing New Study Suggests Sean Hannity Helped Spread the Coronavirus – [Vox] 04.22.20
Facebook Invests $5.7 Billion in Indian Internet Giant Jio – [The New York Times] 04.22.20
With Selective Coronavirus Coverage, China Builds a Culture of Hate – [The New York Times] 04.22.20
Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief – [The New York Times] 04.21.20
Unsanitized: The Mystery of Donna Shalala’s Unreported Stock Sales – [The American Prospect] 04.21.20
US Congressional Leaders Near Deal on Extra Small Business Funds – [Financial Times] 04.21.20
Businesses Say Big Banks Flouted ‘First Come First Served’ for Aid – [The New York Times] 04.21.20
Spectrum Employees Are Getting Sick Amid Debate Over Working From Home – [The New York Times] 04.21.20
A Wealth Tax Is the Logical Way to Support Coronavirus Relief – [The New York Times] 04.21.20
Hundreds of Amazon Warehouse Workers to Call in Sick in Coronavirus Protest – [The Guardian] 04.21.20
The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE – [New York] 04.20.20
Australia Will Compel Facebook and Google to Pay Media Outlets for News Content – [The Verge] 04.20.20
Amazon Thrives in the crisis but Still Faces Risks – [Financial Times] 04.20.20
2bn Phones Cannot Use Google and Apple Contact-Tracing Tech – [Financial Times] 04.20.20
Australia Moves to Force Google and Facebook to Compensate Media Outlets – [The New York Times] 04.20.20
The U.S. Tried to Teach China a Lesson About the Media. It Backfired. – [The New York Times] 04.20.20
As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition – [The New York Times] 04.20.20
Shake Shack Returning $10 Million Government Loan Meant for Small Businesses – [NBC News] 04.20.20
Thousands of Americans Backed by Rightwing Donors Gear Up for Protests – [The Guardian] 04.20.20
EPA Faces Court Over Backing of Monsanto’s Controversial Crop System – [The Guardian] 04.20.20
Trump’s Denial of His Coronavirus Failings Will be “One of the Biggest Propaganda Battles in American History” – [Vox] 04.17.20
Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis – [The New York Times] 04.17.20
Bill Gates, at Odds With Trump on Virus, Becomes a Right-Wing Target – [The New York Times] 04.17.20
When Even Amazon Is Sold Out of Exploding Kittens – [The New York Times] 04.17.20
Starve the Beast, Feed the Depression – [The New York Times] 04.17.20
Exclusive: New York Taps McKinsey to Develop ‘Trump-Proof’ Economic Reopening Plan – [Reuters] 04.16.20
Some Banks Keep Customers’ Stimulus Checks if Accounts Are Overdrawn – [The New York Times] 04.16.20
Neel Kashkari: Big US Banks Should Raise $200bn in Capital Now – [Financial Times] 04.16.20
UnitedHealth Reports Profit, Citing Falling Demand for Elective Care – [The New York Times] 04.16.20
It’s the End of the World Economy as We Know It – [The New York Times] 04.16.20
Biden Campaign Indicates Priorities USA Is Preferred Super PAC – [Wall Street Journal] 04.16.20
Small-Business Aid Package Excludes Many Franchises in Coronavirus Crisis – [Wall Street Journal] 04.16.20
‘Designed for Us to Fail’: Floridians Upset as Unemployment System Melts Down – [The Guardian] 04.16.20
Millionaires to Reap 80% of Benefit From Tax Change in US Coronavirus Stimulus – [The Guardian] 04.16.20
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Grows Fortune by $24bn Amid Coronavirus Pandemic – [The Guardian] 04.16.20
Amazon to Suspend Operations in France Over Coronavirus Dispute – [The New York Times] 04.15.20
Trump’s Name Will Appear On Stimulus Checks – [Huff Post] 04.15.20
Unsanitized: Mnuchin Knew Two Weeks Ago That Financial Predators Could Grab Emergency Coronavirus Checks – [The American Prospect] 04.15.20
Unsanitized: Why Amazon May Not Emerge From the Crisis Dominant – [The American Prospect] 04.15.20
The Postal Service Deserves a Permanent Bailout – [New York] 04.15.20
Exclusive: Democrats Have a New plan to Keep Millions of Laid-Off Workers Insured – [Vox] 04.15.20
“Deaths of Despair”: The Deadly Epidemic That Predated Coronavirus – [Vox] 04.15.20
A Better Society Can Emerge from the Lockdowns – [Financial Times] 04.15.20
Governments Face ‘Massive’ Rise in Public Debt, IMF Warns – [Financial Times] 04.15.20
Crippled Airline Industry to Get $25 Billion Bailout, Part of It as Loans – [The New York Times] 04.15.20
How the Government Pulls Coronavirus Relief Money Out of Thin Air – [The New York Times] 04.15.20
‘Pretty Catastrophic’ Month for Retailers, and Now a Race to Survive – [The New York Times] 04.15.20
Germany Heads Toward Steep Recession, as Merkel and Governors Consider Next Steps. – [The New York Times] 04.15.20
Hedge Fund Managers Are Claiming Bailouts as Small Businesses – [Bloomberg] 04.14.20
Amazon Fires Two Tech Workers Who Criticized the Company’s Warehouse Workplace Conditions – [The Washington Post] 04.14.20
America Has Replaced Capitalism With Cronyism – [New York] 04.14.20
Does Private Equity Deserve a Public Bailout? – [The New York Times] 04.14.20
Economic Pain Will Persist Long After Lockdowns End – [The New York Times] 04.14.20
How Bad Will the Economy Get? Companies Will Provide Clues – [The New York Times] 04.14.20
How a Supreme Court Decision Curtailed the Right to Vote in Wisconsin – [The New York Times] 04.14.20
Amazon Fires Two Employees Critical of Warehouse Working Conditions – [Reuters] 04.14.20
Tax Change in Coronavirus Package Overwhelmingly Benefits Millionaires, Congressional Body Finds – [The Washington Post] 04.14.20
The Coronavirus Reveals The ‘Invisible Inequalities’ In Our Food System – [Huff Post] 04.13.20
How Private Equity Is Using the Pandemic to Extort Taxpayers – [Popular Information] 04.13.20
The Federal Government Wants to Let These Financial Predators Off the Hook – [The American Prospect] 04.13.20
Coronavirus Has Broken America’s Food Supply – [The American Prospect] 04.13.20
Amazon Will Hire 75,000 More Workers to Meet Pandemic Demand – [Bloomberg] 04.13.20
How Coronavirus Spread Through Corporate America – [Wall Street Journal] 04.13.20
Answering the 12 Biggest Questions About Apple and Google’s New Coronavirus Tracking Project – [The Verge] 04.13.20
Companies Try to Slow Product Shipments From Overseas – [Financial Times] 04.13.20
SoftBank Warns of Historic Loss Due to Big Vision Fund Hit – [Financial Times] 04.13.20
How a Premier U.S. Drug Company Became a Virus ‘Super Spreader’ – [The New York Times] 04.13.20
Are We All in This Together? – [The New York Times] 04.13.20
Why We Desperately Need Oversight of the Coronavirus Stimulus Spending – [The New York Times] 04.13.20
Big Business Pledged Gentler Capitalism. It’s Not Happening in a Pandemic. – [The New York Times] 04.13.20
Apple and Google Want to Turn Your Phone Into a Covid-Tracking Machine – [Vox] 04.10.20
America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. – [The New York Times] 04.10.20
A Crisis of Unnecessary Unemployment – [The New York Times] 04.10.20
Restarting America Means People Will Die. So When Do We Do It? – [The New York Times] 04.10.20
Global Trade Sputters, Leaving Too Much Here, Too Little There – [The New York Times] 04.10.20
Apple and Google Are Building a Coronavirus Tracking System Into iOS and Android – [The Verge] 04.10.20
Cuomo Promises Google Will Fix New York’s Broken Unemployment Insurance System – [Gothamist] 04.09.20
Federal Reserve Unveils Details of $2.3 Trillion in Programs to Help Support the Economy – [CNBC] 04.09.20
In Scramble for Coronavirus Supplies, Rich Countries Push Poor Aside – [The New York Times] 04.09.20
The Rise of Neo-Feudalism – [The American Prospect] 04.08.20
Amazon’s Friend Network – [The American Prospect] 04.08.20
The EPA’s “Enforcement Moratorium” During The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Coming Under Fire – [BuzzFeed] 04.08.20
Eurozone’s Two Biggest Economies Sink Into Historic Recessions – [Financial Times] 04.08.20
Rents Are Late, and ‘It’s Only Going to Get Worse’ – [The New York Times] 04.08.20
Uber and Lyft Drivers Face Hurdles to Stimulus Bill Benefits – [The New York Times] 04.08.20
Small Business Aid Program Stretches Agency to Its Limits – [The New York Times] 04.08.20
The Supreme Court’s Disturbing Order to Effectively Disenfranchise Thousands of Wisconsin Voters – [Vox] 04.07.20
US Small Business Rescue Runs Into Operational Difficulties – [Financial Times] 04.07.20
Airbnb Raises $1 Billion to Stockpile Cash in Pandemic – [The New York Times] 04.07.20
How Gig Workers Are Weathering the Virus Shutdown – [The New York Times] 04.07.20
Oil Companies Are Collapsing, but Wind and Solar Energy Keep Growing – [The New York Times] 04.07.20
Big Restaurant, Hotel Chains Won Exemption to Get Small Business Loans – [Wall Street Journal] 04.07.20
The EPA’s “Enforcement Moratorium” During The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Coming Under Fire – [BuzzFeed] 04.06.20
Gunfight at the Supply Chain Corral – [The American Prospect] 04.06.20
Amid Downturn, Silicon Valley’s Balance of Power Shifts From Startups to VCs – [The Information] 04.06.20
“Kill Your Earnings”: Jim Cramer’s Surprising Take on the Coronavirus Crisis – [Vox] 04.06.20
Top Democrats Press Treasury to Accelerate Airline Bailout – [The New York Times] 04.06.20
How Economists, Too, Are Taking On the Coronavirus Crisis – [The New York Times] 04.06.20
Young Adults, Burdened With Debt, Are Now Facing an Economic Crisis – [The New York Times] 04.06.20
‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System – [The New York Times] 04.06.20
European Banks Prepared for a Crisis. But Not This One. – [The New York Times] 04.06.20
Facebook Hampers Do-It-Yourself Mask Efforts – [The New York Times] 04.06.20
Gaps in Amazon’s Response as Virus Spreads to More Than 50 Warehouses – [The New York Times] 04.06.20
EU Focuses Antitrust Probe on Facebook’s Online Classifieds Service – [Financial Times] 04.06.20
Virus Lays Bare the Frailty of the Social Contract – [Financial Times] 04.05.20
Leaked Amazon Memo: Walkout Leader “Not Smart or Articulate” – [Ars Technica] 04.03.20
Trump Ordered More N95 masks. 3M Says His Tactics Could Make the Shortage Worse. – [Vox] 04.03.20
The Covid-19 Slump Has Arrived – [The New York Times] 04.03.20
Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness – [The New York Times] 04.03.20
The Unemployment Rate Is Probably Around 13 Percent – [The New York Times] 04.03.20
How Tech’s Lobbyists Are Using the Pandemic to Make Gains – [The New York Times] 04.03.20
Decade of Job Growth Comes to an End, Undone by a Pandemic – [The New York Times] 04.03.20
Global Economy Set for Sharpest Reversal Since Great Depression – [Financial Times] 04.03.20
3M, Under Attack From White House, Pushes Back – [Wall Street Journal] 04.03.20
Pelosi Joins Critics of Mnuchin’s Airline Stock-For-Aid Plan – [Bloomberg] 04.02.20
Dear Jeff Bezos, Instead of Firing Me, Protect Your Workers From Coronavirus – [The Guardian] 04.02.20
’No Words for this’: 10 Million Workers File Jobless Claims in Just Two Weeks – [Politico] 04.02.20
U.S. Hospitals Halt Lucrative Procedures Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Job Cuts Follow – [Reuters] 04.01.20
Underlying Health Disparities Could Mean Coronavirus Hits Some Communities Harder – [NPR] 04.01.20
Factories Cut Output, Jobs as Coronavirus Lockdown Bites – [Wall Street Journal] 04.01.20
How Powell and Mnuchin Became the Duo in Charge of Saving the Economy – [The New York Times] 04.01.20
Start-Ups Are Pummeled in the ‘Great Unwinding’ – [The New York Times] 04.01.20
Why the Global Recession Could Last a Long Time – [The New York Times] 04.01.20
Coronavirus Battle Creates a Global ‘Free-for-All’ to Find Masks – [The New York Times] 04.01.20
As Virus Hobbles Economy, Companies Race to Tap Credit and Raise Cash – [The New York Times] 04.01.20
States Were Closing Gun Shops. Activists Turned to the White House. – [Politico] 04.01.20
Zoom Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing – [The Intercept] 03.31.20
No Masks and Uncertain Sick Leave: New York Whole Foods Delivery Workers Say Amazon Is Failing to Protect Them – [The Intercept] 03.31.20
The Relief Package Ushers In Trump’s Planned Economy – [Wired] 03.31.20
The Coronavirus Relief Bill Promotes Surveillance for Health – [Wired] 03.31.20
Tech Giants Should Give Away Their Money Instead of Their Products – [Vox] 03.31.20
Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear – [Bloomberg] 03.31.20
Privacy Concerns Grow Over Zoom Videoconferencing Platform – [Financial Times] 03.31.20
Pelosi Floats New Stimulus Plan: Rolling Back SALT Cap – [The New York Times] 03.31.20
Strikes at Instacart and Amazon Over Coronavirus Health Concerns – [The New York Times] 03.31.20
Jobs Aren’t Being Destroyed This Fast Elsewhere. Why Is That? – [The New York Times] 03.30.20
Unsanitized: Covidien’s Story Is Corporate America’s Story – [The American Prospect] 03.30.20
The EPA Appears to be Using Coronavirus to Make Huge Concessions to Polluters – [Vox] 03.30.20
Fifty Years of US Policy Come Home to Roost – [Financial Times] 03.30.20
Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Gets Virus Lockdown Exemption – [Financial Times] 03.30.20
US Companies Seek Clarity on $454bn Lending Fund – [Financial Times] 03.30.20
Big Hedge Funds Raise Money to Capitalise on Market Turmoil – [Financial Times] 03.30.20
US Retailers Teeter on the Brink As 630,000 Outlets Close – [Financial Times] 03.30.20
Facebook Aims $100 Million at Media Hit by the Coronavirus – [The New York Times] 03.30.20
A Failure of Policy and Planning – [The New York Times] 03.30.20
Facebook, Google and Twitter Struggle to Handle November’s Election – [The New York Times] 03.30.20
Save Capitalism From the Cares Act – [Wall Street Journal] 03.30.20
Bail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die. – [The New York Times] 03.30.20
The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed. – [The New York Times] 03.29.20
The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed. – [The New York Times] 03.29.20
Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers – [Bloomberg] 03.27.20
It’s Time to Revive the Excess Profits Tax – [The American Prospect] 03.27.20
COVID-19 Is The Best Argument Yet For A Wealth Tax – [Huff Post] 03.27.20
These Companies Enriched Themselves. Now They’re Getting a Bailout. – [The New York Times] 03.27.20
Why Is America Choosing Mass Unemployment? – [The New York Times] 03.27.20
After Considering $1 Billion Price Tag for Ventilators, White House Has Second Thoughts – [The New York Times] 03.27.20
Coronavirus ‘Medicine’ Could Trigger Social Breakdown – [Financial Times] 03.27.20
China Is Open for Business, but the Postcoronavirus Reboot Looks Slow and Rocky – [Wall Street Journal] 03.27.20
US Private Health Insurance Companies Clog System Amid Covid-19 Pandemic – [The Guardian] 03.26.20
Bonanza for Rich Real Estate Investors, Tucked Into Stimulus Package – [The New York Times] 03.26.20
Idled Dealmakers Pile Into New Niche With Virus Freezing M&A – [Bloomberg] 03.26.20
Job Vacancies and Inexperience Mar Federal Response to Coronavirus – [The New York Times] 03.26.20
Europe’s Leaders Ditch Austerity and Fight Pandemic With Cash – [The New York Times] 03.26.20
‘It’s a Wreck’: 3.3 Million File Jobless Claims as Economy Comes Apart – [The New York Times] 03.26.20
A Cruel Motive for a Costly Delay – [The New York Times] 03.26.20
Gilead Sciences Backs Off Coronavirus Drug Monopoly Claim – [The Intercept] 03.26.20
Unemployment Claims Soared to 3.3 Million Last Week, Most in History – [CNN] 03.26.20
Senate Approves $2 Trillion Stimulus After Bipartisan Deal – [The New York Times] 03.25.20
Billionaires Want People Back to Work. Employees Aren’t So Sure – [Bloomberg] 03.25.20
Congress and White House Strike Deal for $2 Trillion Stimulus Package – [The New York Times] 03.25.20
Will Our Most Important Industry Survive the Coronavirus? – [The New York Times] 03.25.20
How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks – [The New York Times] 03.25.20
Senate to Vote Wednesday on $2 Trillion Coronavirus Bill After Landmark Agreement With White House – [The Washington Post] 03.25.20
Unsanitized: The Gaping Hole in the Defense Production Act – [The American Prospect] 03.24.20
From Cover-Up to Global Donor: China’s Soft Power Play – [Financial Times] 03.24.20
6 Reasons to be Skeptical of Trump’s Calls to Reopen the Economy – [Vox] 03.24.20
Facebook, Don’t Exploit Us in Our Time of Need – [The New York Times] 03.24.20
Here Come the Death Panels – [The New York Times] 03.24.20
China to Ease Coronavirus Lockdown on Hubei 2 Months After Imposing It – [The New York Times] 03.24.20
In World’s Most Vulnerable Countries, the Pandemic Rivals the 2008 Crisis – [The New York Times] 03.24.20
Washington Is About to Pick Which Companies Survive – [Politico] 03.23.20
SoftBank Plans $41bn Asset Sale to Cut Debt Amid Coronavirus Tumult – [Financial Times] 03.23.20
Coronavirus Threatens $32tn of Asia Corporate Debt – [Financial Times] 03.23.20
Fed Unleashes Spending Power in New Bond-Buying Plan – [The New York Times] 03.23.20
The U.S. Needs China’s Masks, as Acrimony Grows – [The New York Times] 03.23.20
This Stimulus Bill Will Not Save the Economy From Collapse – [The New York Times] 03.23.20
Trump Bets Business Will Answer Call to Fight Virus, but Strategy Bewilders Firms – [The New York Times] 03.23.20
Coronavirus Drives the U.S. and China Deeper Into Global Power Struggle – [The New York Times] 03.23.20
How to Get a Coronavirus Test? Rich and Powerful Jump to Front – [Bloomberg] 03.23.20
Rupert Murdoch Put His Son in Charge of Fox. It Was a Dangerous Mistake – [The New York Times] 03.23.20
The Epic Failure of Coronavirus Testing in America – [The New York Times] 03.20.20
Search for Coronavirus Vaccine Becomes a Global Competition – [The New York Times] 03.20.20
Under the Virus’s Cloak, Trump Pursues Long-Sought Policies – [The New York Times] 03.20.20
Senator Dumped Up to $1.7 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness – [ProPublica] 03.19.20
Senate Intel Chair Unloaded Stocks in Mid-February Before Coronavirus Rocked Markets – [OpenSecrets.org] 03.19.20
Intelligence Chairman Raised Virus Alarms Weeks Ago, Secret Recording Shows – [NPR] 03.19.20
Trump Backs Allowing Federal Government to Take Equity Stakes in Firms That Receive Coronavirus Bailout – [The Washington Post] 03.19.20
A Taxonomy of Bailouts: Comparing the Coronavirus Rescues With Rescues Past – [The New York Times] 03.19.20
Some Countries Are Better Armored for Epidemics Than Others – [The New York Times] 03.19.20
Need a Coronavirus Test? Being Rich and Famous May Help – [The New York Times] 03.19.20
Investor Ray Dalio Estimates the Corporate Losses in the US From Coronavirus Will Top $4 Trillion – [CNBC] 03.19.20
What $60bn Gets Boeing: Liquidity, and $100bn in Debt – [Financial Times] 03.19.20
The $1 trillion Stimulus Isn’t About Cash. It’s About Restoring Faith in the System. – [The Washington Post] 03.19.20
Special Report: How Korea Trounced U.S. in Race to Test People for Coronavirus – [Reuters] 03.19.20
It’s Time to Nationalize the Airlines – [The American Prospect] 03.18.20
San Francisco Bay Area Ordered Millions to Shelter in Place. Elon Musk had Tesla Employees Report to Work Anyway. – [The Washington Post] 03.18.20
Mnuchin Warns Senators of 20% US Unemployment Without Coronavirus Rescue, Source Says – [CNBC] 03.18.20
The Era of Small Government Is Over – [The New York Times] 03.18.20
I’m a Doctor in Britain. We’re Heading Into the Abyss. – [The New York Times] 03.18.20
Give Every American $2,000, Immediately – [The New York Times] 03.18.20
Layoffs Are Just Starting, and the Forecasts Are Bleak – [The New York Times] 03.18.20
‘Go Big’ on Coronavirus Stimulus, Trump Says, Pitching Checks for Americans – [The New York Times] 03.18.20
Helicopter Money Would Help People, Not Endangered Businesses – [Bloomberg] 03.18.20
Who Should Get a Coronavirus Bailout and How? – [New York] 03.18.20
This Crisis Calls for Massive Government Intervention: Here’s How to Do It – [The Guardian] 03.18.20
Amazon Says It Will Hire 100,000 Extra Staff – [Financial Times] 03.17.20
Trump Administration Seeks $850 Billion Stimulus – [The New York Times] 03.17.20
Casinos Ask Congress for Emergency Aid as Coronavirus Toll Sweeps Industry – [The Washington Post] 03.17.20
‘It Shouldn’t Take a Pandemic’: Coronavirus Exposes Internet Inequality Among U.S. Students as Schools Close Their Doors. – [The Washington Post] 03.16.20
U.S. Airlines Spent 96% of Free Cash Flow on Buybacks – [Bloomberg] 03.16.20
France Hits Apple With €1.1bn Antitrust Fine – [Financial Times] 03.16.20
Muting Coronavirus Anger, China Empowers Its Internet Police – [The New York Times] 03.16.20
The Fed Deployed Its 2008 Arsenal All in One Weekend – [The New York Times] 03.16.20
When Facebook Is More Trustworthy Than the President – [The New York Times] 03.16.20
Coronavirus Cost to Businesses and Workers: ‘It Has All Gone to Hell’ – [The New York Times] 03.16.20
Don’t Feel Sorry for the Airlines – [The New York Times] 03.16.20
How Coronavirus Can Bring Down Zombie Companies — and the Economy – [The New York Times] 03.16.20
Opinion: Moving Our Pharmaceutical Factories Overseas Was A Huge Mistake – [BuzzFeed] 03.16.20
Trump Administration Blocks States From Using Medicaid to Respond to Coronavirus Crisis – [Los Angeles Times] 03.13.20
Price of the CDC Coronavirus Test: $36 – [Axios] 03.13.20
Uber Whistleblower Susan Fowler: ‘Everything Was Chaos’ – [Financial Times] 03.13.20
Germany Wields the Bazooka in Fight Against Coronavirus – [Financial Times] 03.13.20
Cost of US Corporate Default Protection Soars – [Financial Times] 03.13.20
Alibaba Co-Dounder Jack Ma to Send 1 Million Masks to U.S., Plus Testing Kits – [Mashable] 03.13.20
China Makes the Masks the World Needs. It Is Just Starting to Share. – [The New York Times] 03.13.20
Markets Plunge. Economies Stall. Panic Spreads. It All Feels Very 2008. – [The New York Times] 03.13.20
Fed to Inject $1.5 Trillion in Bid to Prevent ‘Unusual Disruptions’ in Markets – [Wall Street Journal] 03.12.20
Will the Coronavirus Trigger a Corporate Debt Crisis? – [Financial Times] 03.12.20
How SoftBank Became Silicon Valley’s Persona Non Grata – [Financial Times] 03.12.20
Halting China’s Economy Was Hard. Restarting It Is Harder. – [The New York Times] 03.12.20
Trump’s Payroll Tax Cut Would Dwarf the 2008 Bank Bailout – [The New York Times] 03.12.20
Rupert Murdoch Could Save Lives by Forcing Fox News to Tell the Truth About Coronavirus — Right Now – [The Washington Post] 03.11.20
Amazon Is Selling Its Cashierless Technology to Other Vendors, Starting With Airports – [Vox] 03.11.20
Amazon Battles Counterfeit Masks, $400 Hand Sanitizer Amid Virus Panic – [Wall Sreet Journal] 03.11.20
PepsiCo to Buy Energy Drink Maker Rockstar for $3.85bn – [Financial Times] 03.11.20
Sunak Unveils £30bn Stimulus to Counter UK Coronavirus Shock – [Financial Times] 03.11.20
Insulin Costs May Be Capped in a Medicare Program – [The New York Times] 03.11.20
To Take On Coronavirus, B.O.E. Cut Rates. Europe’s Central Bank Has Fewer Options. – [The New York Times] 03.11.20
Coronavirus May Light Fuse on ‘Unexploded Bomb’ of Corporate Debt – [The New York Times] 03.11.20
Trump to Meet Bank Executives Amid Market Turmoil – [The New York Times] 03.11.20
Economic Prescription for Coronavirus: ‘You’ve Got to Go Fast’ – [The New York Times] 03.11.20
Coronavirus Spurs U.S. Efforts to End China’s Chokehold on Drugs – [The New York Times] 03.11.20
White House Likely to Pursue Federal Aid for Shale Companies Hit by Oil shock, Coronavirus Downturn – [The Washington Post] 03.10.20
‘Crash Monday’ Is the Price We’re Paying for a Decade of Cheap Money – [The Guardian] 03.09.20
NY Judge Freezes Hedge Fund Manager Philip Falcone’s Assets – [Financial Times] 03.09.20
Aon to Buy Willis Towers Watson in $30bn Deal – [Financial Times] 03.09.20
What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About the Media – [The New York Times] 03.09.20
Twitter Reaches Deal With Activist Fund That Wanted Jack Dorsey Out – [The New York Times] 03.09.20
Wells Fargo’s Chairwoman, Betsy Duke, Resigns After Critical Report – [The New York Times] 03.09.20
Inside a future Biden administration: His possible picks for VP and Cabinet – [Axios] 03.09.20
Tom Steyer: What I Learned While Running for President – [The New York Times] 03.08.20
NYU Researchers Say Facebook Advertisers Lied About Their Identity – [The Verge] 03.06.20
Grindr Sold by Chinese Owner After US National Security Concerns – [Financial Times] 03.06.20
Why the Coronavirus Could Threaten the U.S. Economy Even More Than China’s – [The New York Times] 03.06.20
Facebook Removes Misleading Trump Census Ads – [The New York Times]03.06.20
U.A.W. Corruption Case Widens as Former Chief Is Charged – [The New York Times] 03.06.20
How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts – [The New York Times] 03.06.20
Elizabeth Warren, Big Tech Trustbuster, Has Suspended Her Presidential Campaign – [The Verge]03.05.20
Wealthy Americans Need Not Fear Bernie Sanders’s Love of Nordic socialism – [Financial Times] 03.05.20
Fears Over Healthcare Costs Rising Among US Voters, Poll Shows – [Financial Times] 03.05.20
U.S. to Hold Tech Firms Accountable for Spread of Child Sex Abuse Imagery– [The New York Times] 03.05.20
Maxine Waters Says Wells Fargo Board Members Should Resign – [The New York Times] 03.05.20
‘Almost Without Precedent’: Airline Industry Hit Hard by Coronavirus – [The New York Times] 03.05.20
Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich – [The New York Times] 03.05.20
Former U.A.W. Chief Charged With Misusing Union Funds – [The New York Times] 03.05.20
Our Economic Model Is Making Us More Vulnerable to Coronavirus – [Jacobin] 03.05.20
Mike Bloomberg’s Belly Flop Was a Great Moment for Democracy – [The American Prospect] 03.04.20
Mike Bloomberg’s Campaign Ends As One Of The Biggest Product Flops In History – [Huff Post] 03.04.20
Bloomberg Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Biden – [Associated Press] 03.04.20
How Michael Bloomberg Bought the Gun Control Movement – [Mother Jones]03.03.20
Tech Billionaire Marc Benioff Used to Give Millions to Politicians. Then He Bought Time Magazine. – [Vox] 03.03.20
10 Cities Captured Nearly 50% of the Growth in New Tech Jobs – [Vox]03.03.20
Chevron Aims to Return Up to $80bn to Shareholders – [Financial Times]03.03.20
Amazon Battles Sharp Price Rises of Coronavirus Products – [Financial Times] 03.03.20
Will the Supreme Court Protect Agencies From Trump’s Reach? – [The New York Times] 03.03.20
Will the Supreme Court Protect Agencies From Trump’s Reach? – [The New York Times] 03.03.20
As Coronavirus Disrupts Factories, India Curbs Exports of Key Drugs – [The New York Times] 03.03.20
Capitalists Make Their Case Against Sanders – [The New York Times] 03.03.20
How Bloomberg Buys the Silence of Unhappy Employees – [The New York Times] 03.02.20
The Verge Tech Survey 2020 – [The Verge] 03.02.20
YouTube Accused of Being ‘Organ of Radicalisation’ – [The Guardian] 03.02.20
Sanders and Warren Scare Big Tech But Thrill Its Workers – [Financial Times] 03.02.20
Milken Had Key Allies in Pardon Bid: Trump’s Inner Circle – [The New York Times] 03.02.20
Economic Group Warns That Virus Could Significantly Slow Global Growth – [The New York Times] 03.02.20
In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red Flags– [The New York Times] 03.02.20
Solidarity Now – [Project Syndicate]03.02.20
Covid-19 Is Teaching Hard Lessons About China-Only Supply Chains – [The Economist] 03.02.20
Bloomberg’s Big bet: Can Money Beat Biden’s Momentum? – [Reuters] 03.02.20
Google’s Ambitious Push Into Gaming Is Floundering, and It’s Due Largely to Too Few Games on Its Stadia Platform — Here’s Why developers Have Held Back – [Business Insider]03.02.20
Kept at the Hospital on Coronavirus Fears, Now Facing Large Medical Bills – [The New York Times] 03.01.20
Republican Mega-Donor Buys Stake in Twitter and Seeks to Oust Jack Dorsey – Report – [The Guardian]03.01.20
Trump Officials Discuss Tax Cuts, Other Emergency Measures in Hopes of Tackling Coronavirus Fallout – [The Washington Post] 02.28.20
How the Coronavirus Could Reignite a Lurking Debt Bomb – [The American Prospect] 02.28.20
Will Coronavirus Cause a Global Recession? We Still Don’t Know. – [Vox]02.28.20
Facebook, Google and Twitter Rebel Against Pakistan’s Censorship Rules – [The New York Times] 02.28.20
Trump Administration Faces Economic Test as Coronavirus Shakes Markets – [The New York Times] 02.28.20
Rich Profits and Dark Messages From the Market (No, Not That Market) – [The New York Times] 02.28.20
Virus Disrupts China’s Shipping, and World Ports Feel the Impact – [The New York Times] 02.28.20
Cellphone Carriers May Face $200 Million in Fines for Selling Location Data – [The New York Times] 02.28.20
IBM and Microsoft Sign Vatican Pledge for Ethical AI – [Financial Times]02.28.20
Walmart Is Quietly Working on an Amazon Prime Competitor Called Walmart+ – [Vox] 02.27.20
Bayer Faces More Claims Over Weedkiller Cancer Allegations – [Financial Times] 02.27.20
Apple Shareholders Call for Human Rights Transparency – [Financial Times]02.27.20
Why a Top Trump Aide Said ‘We Are Desperate’ for More Immigrants – [The New York Times] 02.27.20
Eric Schmidt: Silicon Valley Needs the Federal Government – [The New York Times] 02.27.20
Mike Bloomberg’s Big-Tech Campaign– [New York] 02.26.20
Bloomberg Nearly Said He “Bought” Congress During the Debate – [Slate]02.26.20
Covid-19 Will Mark the End of Affluence Politics – [Wired] 02.26.20
ABC News Suspends Correspondent David Wright After Comments About Trump Coverage, Socialism, in Project Veritas Sting – [The Washington Post]02.26.20
Companies Must Include Environmental and Social Performance Measures – [Financial Times] 02.26.20
Mallinckrodt Reaches $1.6 Billion Deal to Settle Opioid Lawsuits – [The New York Times] 02.26.20
Coronavirus Weakens China’s Powerful Propaganda Machine – [The New York Times] 02.26.20
These 26 Words ‘Created the Internet.’ The US Government Is Coming for Them – [CNN] 02.25.20
Under Trump, Income Growth Slows Across U.S., Including in Key Battleground States – [The American Prospect] 02.25.20
Amazon Ramps Up Cashier-Less Experiment With Grocery Store – [Financial Times] 02.25.20
Tesla and Industry Criticized at Hearing on Autopilot System – [The New York Times] 02.25.20
Russia Wants to Meddle in Our Election. We’re Helping. – [The New York Times] 02.25.20
Bloomberg Called Warren ‘Scary’ and Vowed to ‘Defend the Banks’ in Closed-Door 2016 Event – [CNN] 02.24.20
After Long Wait, The Markup Is Ready to ‘Show Our Work’ – [The New York Times] 02.24.20
Washington Post Amplifies Climate Change Denialism From Noted Propaganda Factory – [Vice] 02.24.20
Can Mike Bloomberg Buy His Way to the White House? – [The Guardian]02.24.20
Mike Bloomberg Prepares Media Onslaught Against Democratic Front-Runner Bernie Sanders – [CNBC]02.24.20
Facebook Is Looking a Lot Like a Government – [The Washington Post]02.24.20
The Top Lawyer Bankrolling Democrats – [The American Prospect]02.24.20
How JPMorgan Chase Became the Doomsday Bank – [Rolling Stone]02.24.20
US Tech Tycoons Direct Personal Wealth to New Frontiers – [Financial Times] 02.24.20
Warren Buffett Has a Problem With ‘Independent’ Directors – [The New York Times] 02.24.20
Intuit Is Expected to Buy Credit Karma in $7 Billion Deal – [The New York Times] 02.24.20
Inside The Wall Street Journal, Tensions Rise Over ‘Sick Man’ China Headline – [The New York Times] 02.24.20
As the Start-Up Boom Deflates, Tech Is Humbled – [The New York Times] 02.24.20
DOJ Solicited Outside Law Firm for Help With Tech Antitrust Case – [Bloomberg] 02.21.20
SEC to Ease Burden on Companies That Violate Securities Laws – [Financial Times] 02.21.20
The Liberal Economists Behind the Wealth Tax Debate – [The New York Times] 02.21.20
How Conservatives Learned to Wield Power Inside Facebook – [The Washington Post] 02.21.20
Inside Facebook’s Oversight Board – [Slate] 02.21.20
The Billionaire Election – [The New York Times] 02.21.20
Warren, Bloomberg and What Really Matters – [The New York Times] 02.21.20
Elizabeth Warren Buys Full-Page Ad Slamming Sheldon Adelson in His Own Newspaper Day After Debate – [CNBC] 02.20.20
Bloomberg’s Plan to Buy the Presidency Endangers Democracy – [Vox] 02.20.20
I Was a Prosecutor in the Michael Milken Case. I’m Outraged at the Pardon Process. – [The Washington Post]02.20.20
Five Lessons From the Justice Department’s Big Debate Over Section 230 – [The Verge] 02.20.20
Europe, Overrun by Foreign Tech Giants, Wants to Grow Its Own – [The New York Times] 02.20.20
When You Click Buy on Amazon, It May Be Sweating the Supply – [The New York Times] 02.20.20
Trump Administration Sees No Threat to Economy From Monopolies – [The New York Times] 02.20.20
Pull Yourself Up by Bootstraps? Go Ahead, Try It – [The New York Times]02.20.20
Morgan Stanley to Buy E-Trade for $13 Billion – [The New York Times]02.20.20
Bloomberg’s Billions Didn’t Just Build A Political Network. He Also Bought Silence. – [Huff Post] 02.19.20
Trump Pardons Michael Milken, Face of 1980s Insider Trading Scandals – [CNBC] 02.18.20
Reforming U.S. Antitrust Enforcement and Competition Policy – [Equitable Growth] 02.18.20
America’s Monopoly Problem, Explained by Your Internet Bill – [Vox]02.18.20
Michael Bloomberg Leans Left With Plan to Rein In Wall Street – [The New York Times] 02.18.20
Apple Signals Coronavirus’s Threat to Global Businesses – [The New York Times] 02.18.20
Ring and Nest Helped Normalize American Surveillance and Turned Us Into a Nation of Voyeurs – [The Washington Post] 02.18.20
Weakening the Oversight of US Auditing Is a Very Bad Idea – [Financial Times] 02.17.20
Democratic Calls to Break Up Big Tech Raise Fears in Silicon Valley – [Financial Times] 02.17.20
EU Rejects Facebook’s Proposals for Online Regulation – [Financial Times]02.17.20
Bayer Ends Digital Farming Agreement After Twitter Backlash – [Financial Times] 02.17.20
Financial Engineers Ravage American Newspapers—McClatchy’s Turn – [The American Prospect] 02.17.20
It’s Bernie Versus Mike Now – [The Atlantic] 02.17.20
China Targets Uncensored Internet to Control Coronavirus Coverage – [Financial Times] 02.17.20
Silicon Valley Heads to Europe, Nervous About New Rules – [The New York Times] 02.17.20
Trump Effort to Keep U.S. Tech Out of China Alarms American Firms – [The New York Times] 02.17.20
Slowed by the Coronavirus, China Inc. Struggles to Reopen – [The New York Times] 02.17.20
Facebook Won’t Catalog Sponsored Mike Bloomberg Memes As Political Ads – [The Verge] 02.14.20
Google in Talks With French Publishers on Paying for News – [Financial Times] 02.14.20
Two Tax Strategies to Consider Ahead of the 2020 Election – [The New York Times] 02.14.20
Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist – [The New York Times] 02.14.20
Bernie Sanders Dominates Democrats in Donations From Tech Workers – [Los Angeles Times] 02.13.20
Judge Halts Work on Microsoft’s JEDI Contract, a Victory for Amazon – [The New York Times] 02.13.20
There’s a Good Financial Case for an Alphabet Breakup, and a Trillion Dollars at Stake – [CNBC] 02.13.20
Never Mind the Internet. Here’s What’s Killing Malls. – [The New York Times] 02.13.20
The State of Startups: Tech Experts, DOJ Officials Weigh In – [Wall Street Journal] 02.13.20
Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy – [Wall Street Journal] 02.13.20
Amazon’s PR Campaigns Keep Blowing Up in the Company’s Face – [The Verge] 02.12.20
Facebook Accuses Telecoms Groups of Disinformation Tactics – [Financial Times] 02.12.20
Business Is Worried About Bernie. Should It Be? – [The New York Times]02.12.20
SoftBank Takes Another Multibillion-Dollar Hit From Bad Bets – [The New York Times] 02.12.20
Britain to Create Regulator for Internet Content – [The New York Times]02.12.20
T-Mobile, Sprint Deal Wins Approval, Reshaping Industry – [Wall Street Journal] 02.11.20
She Wants to Break Up Big Everything – [The New York Times]02.11.20
How Trump Got Trickled Down – [The New York Times] 02.11.20
Sen. Josh Hawley Proposes FTC Overhaul to Take on Google and Facebook – [The Verge] 02.10.20
Trump Proposes $4.8 Trillion Budget, With Cuts to Safety Nets – [Wall Street Journal] 02.10.20
Google Accused of Competition Abuse in Holiday Rentals – [Financial Times]02.10.20
Google Accused of Competition Abuse in Holiday Rentals – [Financial Times]02.10.20
The Rise of Conscious Capitalism – [Financial Times] 02.10.20
Xi Jinping Faces China’s Chernobyl Moment – [Financial Times] 02.10.20
US Charges Four Chinese Military Officers Over Equifax Hack – [Financial Times] 02.10.20
Money, Morality and a Challenge to Silicon Valley – [The New York Times]02.10.20
Trump’s Budget Math Grapples With Economic Reality – [The New York Times]02.10.20
In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich – [The New York Times] 02.10.20
Why Bernie Sanders Praised Amazon – [The New York Times] 02.10.20
The Golden Age of White-Collar Crime– [Huff Post] 02.10.20
Justice Department Drops Antitrust Probe Against Automakers That Sided With California on Emissions – [The New York Times] 02.08.20
Bernie Sanders Goes After Pete Buttigieg’s Backing From Wealthy Donors – [Huff Post] 02.07.20
IRS Proposes Changing Donor-Disclosure Rule After Court Loss – [Bloomberg] 02.07.20
When Is the Voter Registration Deadline in Oklahoma? Facebook Almost Flubbed It – [Wall Street Journal]02.07.20
Federal Agencies Use Cellphone Location Data for Immigration Enforcement – [Wall Street Journal]02.07.20
What the Economy Tells Us About Trump’s Reelection Odds – [Vox]02.07.20
Credit Suisse ousted Thiam Because of Second Spying Operation – [Financial Times] 02.07.20
Uber Posts Faster Growth, but Loses $1.1 Billion – [The New York Times]02.07.20
Really? Is the White House Proposing to Buy Ericsson or Nokia? – [The New York Times] 02.07.20
Black Workers’ Wages Are Finally Rising – [The New York Times] 02.07.20
China Cuts Tariffs on $75 Billion in U.S. Goods. That Was the Easy Part. – [The New York Times] 02.06.20
Child-Welfare Activists Attack Facebook Over Encryption Plans – [The New York Times] 02.06.20
Chinese Telecoms Giant Huawei Sues Verizon for Patent Infringement – [CNBC] 02.06.20
Why Google Might Prefer Dropping a $22 Billion Business – [Bloomberg]02.06.20
CIA Opens Competition for Lucrative Cloud Deals to Amazon Rivals – [Bloomberg] 02.06.20
Justice Department Ramps Up Google Probe, With Heavy Focus on Ad Tools– [Wall Street Journal] 02.06.20
Big Business Is Driving America’s Smaller Cities – [Wall Street Journal]02.06.20
Is It Local Journalism, or Just Local Propaganda? – [The Washington Post]02.06.20
The Divisive Democratic Operative Behind Shadow, the App That Broke Iowa – [Politico] 02.05.20
Economists Barred From Weighing In On T-Mobile/Sprint Row – [Law360]02.05.20
Siemens Chief Lashes Out at ‘Grotesque’ Environmental Protests – [Financial Times] 02.05.20
Disney Plus Racks Up 28.6 Million Subscribers – [The New York Times]02.05.20
‘We Feel Really Terrible,’ Says CEO Whose App Roiled Iowa Caucus – [Bloomberg] 02.05.20
Faulty Iowa App Was Part of Push to Restore Democrats’ Digital Edge – [The New York Times] 02.04.20
UK Competition Regulator to Ramp Up Pursuit of US Tech Giants – [Financial Times] 02.04.20
How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class – [The Atlantic] 02.04.20
Most Iowa Democratic Caucus-Goers Support a Single-Payer Health-Care Plan – [The Washington Post] 02.04.20
Goldman Sachs Executive Banned From Banking Over 1MDB Scandal – [Bloomberg] 02.04.20
The Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots of Tech Widens – [The New York Times] 02.04.20
Top Antitrust Official Is Said to Recuse Himself From Google Inquiry – [The New York Times] 02.04.20
Bloomberg Plans to Double Ad Spending After Iowa Caucus Problem– [The New York Times] 02.04.20
Iowa Conspiracy Theories Are Testing Facebook’s Misinformation Policy – [The Verge] 02.04.20
YouTube Makes $15 Billion a Year From Ads — and Pays More Than Half of That to Video Makers – [Vox] 02.04.20
Facebook Names Dropbox Chief Drew Houston to Board – [Financial Times]02.04.20
Coronavirus May Delay Hard-Fought U.S. Trade Wins in China – [The New York Times] 02.04.20
The Only Safe Election Is a Low-Tech Election – [The New York Times] 02.04.20
Joe Biden’s Campaign Tries to Reassure Donors He Will Win Nevada and South Carolina After Iowa Chaos – [CNBC] 02.04.20
Move Fast and Break the Iowa Caucus– [The New York Times] 02.04.20
Taxing the Superrich – [Boston Review]02.03.20
Faulty Iowa App Was Part of Push to Restore Democrats’ Digital Edge – [The New York Times] 02.04.19
UK Competition Regulator to Ramp Up Pursuit of US Tech Giants – [Financial Times] 02.04.19
How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class – [The Atlantic] 02.04.19
Most Iowa Democratic Caucus-Goers Support a Single-Payer Health-Care Plan – [The Washington Post] 02.04.19
Goldman Sachs Executive Banned From Banking Over 1MDB Scandal – [Bloomberg] 02.04.19
The Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots of Tech Widens – [The New York Times] 02.04.19
Top Antitrust Official Is Said to Recuse Himself From Google Inquiry – [The New York Times] 02.04.19
Bloomberg Plans to Double Ad Spending After Iowa Caucus Problem– [The New York Times] 02.04.19
Iowa Conspiracy Theories Are Testing Facebook’s Misinformation Policy – [The Verge] 02.04.19
YouTube Makes $15 Billion a Year From Ads — and Pays More Than Half of That to Video Makers – [Vox] 02.04.19
Facebook Names Dropbox Chief Drew Houston to Board – [Financial Times]02.04.19
Coronavirus May Delay Hard-Fought U.S. Trade Wins in China – [The New York Times] 02.04.19
The Only Safe Election Is a Low-Tech Election – [The New York Times] 02.04.19
Joe Biden’s Campaign Tries to Reassure Donors He Will Win Nevada and South Carolina After Iowa Chaos – [CNBC] 02.04.19
Move Fast and Break the Iowa Caucus– [The New York Times] 02.04.19
Taxing the Superrich – [Boston Review]02.03.19
Joe Biden Is on Both Sides of the Debate Over Medicaid Privatization – [New York] 02.03.19
How the US Became the Center of Global Kleptocracy – [Vox] 02.03.19
Mastercard chief Speaks Out Against Nationalism and Facebook – [Financial Times] 02.03.19
Brussels Issues Warning to Boris Johnson Over UK Plans to Diverge – [Financial Times] 02.03.19
Bloomberg Proposes $5 Trillion in Taxes on the Rich and Corporations – [The New York Times] 02.03.19
Bernard J. Ebbers, Convicted Former WorldCom Chief, Dies at 78 – [The New York Times] 02.03.19
Privatizing the United States Army Was a Mistake – [The New York Times]02.03.19
Warren Alleges That Trump Fed Nominee Judy Shelton Has ‘Radical’ Views – [The Washington Post] 01.31.19
Airbus Admits to Channelling Millions in Bribes to Win Orders – [Financial Times] 01.31.19
In Talks on Taxing Tech Companies, It’s America Versus the World – [The New York Times] 01.31.19
Trump Called Powell an ‘Enemy.’ ‘Ugh’ Was a Response Inside the Fed. – [The New York Times] 01.31.19
George Soros: Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of Facebook – [The New York Times] 01.31.19
How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk – [The New York Times] 01.31.19
Amazon Holiday Results Crush Wall Street Estimates; Shares Surge – [Bloomberg] 01.30.19
Zuckerberg Plots Brussels Trip Amid EU Bid to Revamp Tech Rules – [Bloomberg] 01.30.19
IKEA Promises New Data Controls for Consumers – [Wall Street Journal]01.30.19
Facebook’s Relationship With Democrats Hits a Low Point – [Wall Street Journal] 01.30.19
‘Every Day Matters’: Guardian Stops Accepting Fossil Fuel Ads – [The Guardian] 01.30.19
Facebook’s New Normal: Where Will Its Growth Come From? – [Financial Times] 01.30.19
Wilbur Ross Says Coronavirus Could Bring Jobs Back to the U.S. – [The New York Times] 01.30.19
Pompeo Calls China’s Ruling Party ‘Central Threat of Our Times’ – [The New York Times] 01.30.19
The Robots Are Coming. Prepare for Trouble. – [The New York Times] 01.30.19
Biden Push for Labor Support Is Burdened by Obama-Era Baggage – [The New York Times] 01.30.19
Tech Loses a Prophet. Just When It Needs One – [The New York Times]01.30.19
9 Things Americans Need to Learn From the Rest of the World’s Health Care Systems – [Vox] 01.29.19
Trump Signs Trade Deal With Canada and Mexico – [The New York Times]01.29.19
Talk of Milk Industry Merger Draws Justice Dept. Scrutiny – [The New York Times] 01.29.19
Boeing Expects 737 Max Costs Will Surpass $18 Billion – [The New York Times] 01.29.19
Why Hasn’t Harvard Stopped Investing in Fossil Fuels? – [The New York Times] 01.29.19
How Allergan Gamed the System to Raise Drug Prices and Flood the Country with Pills – [Public Citizen]01.29.19
How Amazon Escapes Liability for the Riskiest Products on Its Site – [The Verge] 01.28.19
How to Make Multinationals Pay Their Share, and Cut Tax Havens Out of the Picture – [The Guardian] 01.28.19
Britain Says Huawei Won’t Be Banned From Its 5G Network – [The New York Times] 01.28.19
Greta Versus the Greedy Grifters – [The New York Times] 01.28.19
Take the Money and Run – [The American Prospect] 01.27.19
The UK Won’t Implement EU’s Controversial Copyright Directive After Brexit – [The Verge] 01.27.19
Lawyers Push to Toughen New US Insider Trading Law – [Financial Times]01.27.19
How the G.O.P. Became the Party of the Left Behind – [The New York Times]01.27.19
Worried Reporters Make a Plea: Please Buy Our Paper – [The New York Times] 01.27.19
Trump Administration Cracks Down on Counterfeits Sold on Amazon and Other Online Retailers – [CNBC] 01.27.19
State Attorneys General to Meet With Justice Officials to Coordinate on Google Probe – [Wall Street Journal]01.27.19
Is Capitalism a Threat to Democracy?– [The New Yorker] 01.27.19
Government Funding for Journalism: Necessary Evil or Just Evil? – [Columbia Journalism Review] 01.24.19
YouTube Moderators Are Being Forced to Sign a Statement Acknowledging the Job Can Give Them PTSD – [The Verge] 01.24.19
Millionaires Like Me Should Pay More Taxes. Giving to Charity Is a Fig Leaf – [The Guardian] 01.24.19
Why US Rightwing Populists and Their Global Allies Disagree Over Big Tech – [The Guardian] 01.24.19
Most Political Unrest Has One Big Root Cause: Soaring Inequality – [The Guardian] 01.24.19
A New Film Argues That Brazil Teeters on the Brink of Authoritarianism. It’s True – [The Guardian] 01.24.19
Opioid Executive Admits to ‘No Morals’ Ahead of Prison Term – [Financial Times] 01.24.19
Wells Fargo’s Ex-Chief Fined $17.5 Million Over Fake Accounts – [The New York Times] 01.24.19
Jeff Bezos’ Hack Inquiry Falls Short of Implicating National Enquirer – [The New York Times] 01.24.19
Ex-Pharmaceutical Exec Gets 5½ Years for Pushing Opioid Spray – [NBC News] 01.24.19
EU Tech Regulator Backs UK Plans for Digital Tax, Despite Trump Threats – [The Guardian] 01.23.19
US and France Agree Deal on Digital Tax – [Financial Times] 01.23.19
How Tech Taxes Became the World’s Hottest Economic Debate – [The New York Times] 01.23.19
When the Tech Backlash Turns Dangerous: Fake Calls for a SWAT Team – [The New York Times] 01.23.19
Climate Change Could Cause the Next Financial Meltdown – [The New York Times] 01.23.19
The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher. – [ProPublica] 01.22.19
Boris Johnson Communicated With Saudi Crown Prince on WhatsApp, ex-UK Officials Say – [The Telegraph]01.22.19
The Need for a Federal Privacy Law Has Never Been Greater – [The Verge]01.22.19
Chris Hughes Wants Another Chance – [Vox] 01.22.19
A Decade Later, Dutch Officials Publish a Study Critical of Boeing – [The New York Times] 01.22.19
Trade War’s Pain May Deepen Even as Tensions Abate – [The New York Times] 01.22.19
How Amazon, Geico and Walmart Fund Propaganda – [The New York Times] 01.22.19
Bezos hack: UN to Address Alleged Saudi Hacking of Amazon Boss’s Phone – [The Guardian] 01.22.19
Saudi’s MBS implicated in Hacking of Jeff Bezos’s Phone – [Financial Times]01.22.19
India Targets Jeff Bezos Over Amazon and Washington Post – [The New York Times] 01.21.19
Tech Groups Dominate Davos but Focus Shifts From Giants to Unicorns – [Financial Times] 01.21.19
Trump Administration Steps Up Push to Sway Antitrust Cases – [Financial Times] 01.20.19
Can We Ever Trust Google With Our Health Data? – [Financial Times] 01.20.19
Climate Change Takes Center Stage in Davos – [The New York Times] 01.20.19
Trump’s China Deal Creates Collateral Damage for Tech Firms – [The New York Times] 01.20.19
How Boeing’s Responsibility in a Deadly Crash ‘Got Buried’ – [The New York Times] 01.20.19
Even C-SPAN Is Piqued: Senate Puts Limits on Trial Coverage – [The New York Times] 01.20.19
Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough – [The New York Times] 01.20.19
In Its 50th Year, Davos Is Searching for Its Soul – [The New York Times]01.20.19
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It – [The New York Times] 01.19.19
Disney Drops Fox From 20th Century Name – [The New York Times] 01.17.19
Small Tech Firms With Big Tech Gripes – [Axios] 01.17.19
Trump Fans or Not, Business Owners Are Wary of Warren and Sanders – [The New York Times] 01.17.19
Buttigieg Used Mechanical Turk Workers for Polling – [The Intercept]01.17.19
PopSockets, Tile and Other Companies Will Ask Congress to Help Stop Big Tech Bullying – [The Washington Post]01.16.19
Smaller Companies Taking a Risk as They Challenge Big Tech in Hearing – [The Washington Post] 01.16.19
EU Trade Commissioner Criticises US-China Trade Deal – [Financial Times]01.16.19
Trump Tax Break That Benefited the Rich Is Being Investigated – [The New York Times] 01.16.19
Trump’s Next Trade Fight Could Be With Europe – [The New York Times]01.16.19
A Trade Deal Meant to Heal Rifts Could Actually Make Them Worse – [The New York Times] 01.16.19
Google Reaches $1 Trillion in Value, Even as It Faces New Tests – [The New York Times] 01.16.19
Pete Buttigieg Says He’s More Than a Résumé – [The New York Times] 01.16.19
In Huawei Battle, China Threatens Germany ‘Where It Hurts’: Automakers – [The New York Times]01.16.19
U.S. Targets Drug Pricing, No-Poach Deals for Antitrust Action in 2020 – [Wall Street Journal] 01.16.19
Kudlow Says ‘Tax Cuts 2.0’ Will Be Unveiled Later This Year During Trump Presidential Campaign – [CNBC] 01.15.19
U.S. Judge Hears Closing Arguments in T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Trial – [Reuters] 01.15.19
US Tech Backlash Forces China to be More Self-Sufficient – [Financial Times]01.15.19
Two Sisters. Two Different Journeys Through Australia’s Health Care System. – [Vox] 01.15.19
Trump Will Sign a “Phase One” Trade Deal With China. Here’s What’s in it — and What’s Not. – [Vox] 01.15.19
Trump to Sign China Trade Deal Today – [The New York Times] 01.15.19
The U.S.-China Trade Deal Leaves Many Questions Unanswered – [The New York Times] 01.15.19
Big Banks Ended 2019 on a High Note– [The New York Times] 01.15.19
How China Obtains American Trade Secrets – [The New York Times] 01.15.19
Sen. Ron Wyden Calls for an Investigation of the Ad-Blocking Industry – [The Verge] 01.14.19
Wells Fargo Attorney Moonlights as Buttigieg Campaign Policy Adviser – [The American Prospect] 01.14.19
BlackRock Shakes Up Business to Focus on Sustainable Investing – [Financial Times] 01.14.19
Facebook Loves to Pass the Buck – [The New York Times] 01.14.19
Let’s Make a Deal on Tech Taxes – [Wall Street Journal] 01.14.19
Amazon Publishes Books by Top Authors, and Rivals Fret – [Wall Street Journal] 01.14.19
As Justice Department Pressures Apple, Investigators Say iPhone Easier to Crack – [Wall Street Journal]01.14.19
What to Expect From White-Collar Prosecutions in 2020 – [The New York Times] 01.14.19
BlackRock C.E.O. Larry Fink: Climate Crisis Will Reshape Finance – [The New York Times] 01.14.19
New E.U. Trade Chief on a Quest to Fix Relations With U.S. – [The New York Times] 01.14.19
Trump’s Supporters See U.S. Victory in China Trade Deal – [The New York Times] 01.14.19
Taiwan’s Single-Payer Success Story — and Its Lessons for America – [Vox]01.13.19
Content Moderation Dilemma Tests Big Tech’s Reach – [Financial Times]01.13.19
‘Techlash’ Hits College Campuses – [The New York Times] 01.13.19
Plight of Newspapers Generates Uncommon Bipartisan Unity – [The New York Times] 01.13.19
Want to Do Something About Climate Change? Follow the Money – [The New York Times] 01.12.19
The F.D.A. Is in Trouble. Here’s How to Fix It. – [The New York Times] 01.12.19
Americans Really Want to Raise Taxes on the Rich – [New York] 01.11.19
Teen Vogue Editorial Staff Had No Idea About That Mysterious Facebook Advertorial: Source – [Jezebel] 01.11.19
Economists Have No Idea What Replaces Free Trade – [Bloomberg]01.11.19
Facebook’s Revised Political Advertising Policy Doubles Down on Division – [The Verge] 01.10.19
Landmark Facebook Settlement Still Working Its Way Through Court – [Wall Street Journal] 01.10.19
Liberals’ Wealth Tax Would Ripple Through U.S. Economy, GOP Economist Says – [The Washington Post]01.10.19
Can You Win an Election Without Digital Skulduggery? – [Financial Times]01.10.19
Big Tech and the Law Must Learn to Work Together – [Financial Times]01.10.19
Lost in the Amazon Jungle – [The Economist] 01.10.19
Facebook Banned Deepfakes. But There’s a More Menacing Type of Video Out There. – [The Washington Post]01.10.19
Under Pressure, Grubhub Changes Its Ordering System – [The New York Times]01.10.19
Hollywood Assistants Are Fed Up and No Longer Afraid to Say So – [The New York Times] 01.10.19
Boeing Employees Mocked F.A.A. and ‘Clowns’ Who Designed 737 Max – [The New York Times] 01.10.19
The Mystery of Teen Vogue’s Disappearing Facebook Article – [The New York Times] 01.09.19
Glowing Facebook Story Pulled From Teen Vogue Following Serious WTFs – [Mashable] 01.09.19
Black Economists Recall 50 Years of Struggle – [Bloomberg] 01.09.19
How Trump’s Trade War Is Making Lobbyists Rich And Slamming Small Businesses – [ProPublica] 01.09.19
I Support Trump’s Tariffs but Need an Exemption – [Wall Street Journal] 01.09.19
AI Poses Risks, but the White House Says Regulators Shouldn’t “Needlessly Hamper” Innovation – [Vox] 01.09.19
Silicon Valley Reinvents Victorianism– [Financial Times] 01.09.19
Donald Trump Sees Sharp Increase in Support for Economic Policies – [Financial Times] 01.09.19
Michael Bloomberg’s Jobs Plan Is Focused on Place Over Class – [The New York Times] 01.09.19
Steel Hub’s Comeback Preceded Trump, but He Benefits – [The New York Times] 01.09.19
Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down From Allowing Lies in Political Ads – [The New York Times] 01.09.19
Sonos Said What Every Smaller Tech Company Was Thinking: Working With Big Tech Sucks – [The Verge]01.08.19
TV Pundits Praising Suleimani Assassination Neglect To Disclose Ties To Arms Industry – [The Intercept]01.08.19
Major TikTok Security Flaws Found – [The New York Times] 01.08.19
Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google – [The New York Times]01.08.19
CNN Fails to Disclose Former Bush Official Talking About Iran Works for Defense Contractor – [Media Matters]01.08.19
CNN Fails to Disclose Former Bush Official Talking About Iran Works for Defense Contractor – [Media Matters]01.08.19
How Political Fact-Checkers Distort the Truth – [The New Republic] 01.08.19
What Medicare for All Really Looks Like – [The American Prospect] 01.08.19
Personal Data Is Valuable. Give Pricing Power to the People – [Wired]01.08.19
Elizabeth Warren’s New Plan to Reform Bankruptcy Law, Explained – [Vox] 01.07.19
The Christmas Miracle: Biden’s Unexamined List of High-Powered Fundraisers – [The American Prospect]01.07.19
Facebook Bans Deepfake Videos Ahead of the 2020 Election – [The Verge]01.07.19
American Consumers, Not China, Are Paying for Trump’s Tariffs – [The New York Times] 01.07.19
A Year After a #MeToo Reckoning, Economists Still Grapple With It – [The New York Times] 01.07.19
Bias Fears Over Uber Academic Research Programme – [Times Higher Education] 01.07.19
Bloomberg Profits From Conference Business in China – [Financial Times]01.06.19
SocGen: Making the Case for European Bank Champions – [Financial Times] 01.06.19
Silicon Valley’s Newest Rival: The Banks of the Hudson – [The New York Times] 01.06.19
N.A.A.C.P. Tells Local Chapters: Don’t Let Energy Industry Manipulate You – [The New York Times] 01.06.19
Awash in Disinformation Before Vote, Taiwan Points Finger at China – [The New York Times] 01.06.19
Uber, Lyft, Postmates Refuse To Comply With California Gig Economy Law – [NPR] 01.06.19
Governments in Europe Find Workarounds to Bail Out Ailing Banks– [Wall Street Journal] 01.06.19
New York Dangled Extra Incentives in Initial Bid to Lure Amazon HQ2 – [Wall Street Journal] 01.04.19
Amazon Employees Who Spoke Out About Climate Change Could Be Fired– [The Verge] 01.03.19
Google’s Identity Crisis Is Deepening – [The Verge] 01.03.19
T-Mobile’s Sprint Deal Looks Iffy to Traders as Skepticism Grows – [Bloomberg] 01.03.19
Bill Gates Pushes for Higher Taxes on Rich as Wealth Soars – [Bloomberg]01.03.19
Robots Will Not Be Coming For Our Jobs Just Yet – [Financial Times] 01.03.19
Start-ups Can Benefit From Moneyed Tech Enthusiasts as Patrons – [Financial Times] 01.03.19
How Big Companies Won New Tax Breaks From the Trump Administration – [The New York Times]01.03.19
Hong Kong Considers the Future: ‘If You Can Afford It, Leave’ – [The New York Times] 01.03.19
Democrats Enter 2020 Awash in Cash and Brace for Long Primary Fight – [The New York Times] 01.03.19
I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. – [Medium] 01.02.19
It Looks Like Health Insurance, but It’s Not. ‘Just Trust God,’ Buyers Are Told. – [The New York Times] 01.02.19
At SoftBank’s Jewel in India: ‘Toxic’ Culture and Troubling Incidents – [The New York Times] 01.02.19
Amazon Threatened to Fire Employees for Speaking Out on Climate, Workers Say – [The Guardian] 01.02.19
‘We Have a Huge Problem’: European Tech Regulator Despairs Over Lack of Enforcement – [Politico] 12.30.19
Wealth Of World’s 500 Richest People Grew 25% This Year – [Huff Post] 12.28.19
The $1.6tn US Student Debt Nightmare – [Financial Times] 12.28.19
Prime Anchor: An Amazon Warehouse Town Dreams of a Better Life – [The New York Times] 12.28.19
Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network – [ProPublica] 12.26.19
‘We Have a Huge Problem’: European Tech Regulator Despairs Over Lack of Enforcement – [Politico] 12.30.19
Wealth Of World’s 500 Richest People Grew 25% This Year – [Huff Post]12.28.19
The $1.6tn US Student Debt Nightmare – [Financial Times] 12.28.19
Prime Anchor: An Amazon Warehouse Town Dreams of a Better Life – [The New York Times] 12.28.19
Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network – [ProPublica]12.26.19
After Truce With U.S., China Cuts Tariffs on Many Global Imports – [The New York Times] 12.23.19
Boeing Fires C.E.O. Dennis Muilenburg – [The New York Times]12.23.19
How ‘Centrist Bias’ Hurts Sanders and Warren – [The New York Times] 12.23.19
Yes, It Is Plainly Wrong To Meet Donors In A Billionaire’s Crystal Wine Cave – [Huff Post] 12.21.19
Who Pays the Lowest Taxes in the US?– [Vox] 12.20.19
Non-Compete Clauses Are Suffocating American Workers – [Time] 12.20.19
You See Pepsi, I See Coke: New Tricks for Product Placement – [The New York Times] 12.20.19
Live Nation Reaches Agreement Over Antitrust Concerns – [Wall Street Journal] 12.20.19
Facebook Investigates Claims That 267m Users’ Data Were Exposed Online – [Financial Times] 12.20.19
Andrew Bailey Wins Race to Become Bank of England Governor – [Financial Times] 12.20.19
Goldman Sachs Near Deal to Settle 1MDB Inquiry – [The New York Times]12.20.19
At the Edge of the World, a New Battleground for the U.S. and China – [The New York Times] 12.20.19
How a Top Antitrust Official Helped T-Mobile and Sprint Merge – [The New York Times] 12.20.19
You Should Be Freaking Out About Privacy – [The New York Times] 12.20. 19
Facebook Agreed Not to Let Its Ads Discriminate. But They Still Can. – [Mother Jones] 12.19.19
Facebook Is a Right-Wing Company, Part One Million – [The New Republic]12.19.19
The Real Differences Between the 2020 Democrats’ Health Care Plans, Explained – [Vox] 12.19.19
Facebook Pursues Music Video Rights in Challenge to YouTube – [Bloomberg]12.19.19
Why Big Business Can Count on Courts to Keep Its Deadly Secrets – [Reuters] 12.19.19
EU Legal Opinion on Facebook Case Spells Trouble For Data Transfers – [Wall Street Journal] 12.19.19
Earning Income on the Side Is a Large and Growing Slice of American Life – [The New York Times] 12.19.19
World Bank Warns on ‘Towering’ $55tn Emerging Market Debt Pile – [Financial Times] 12.19.19
Sackler Family Members Fight Removal of Name at Tufts, Calling It a ‘Breach’ – [The New York Times] 12.19.19
Uber Settles Federal Investigation Into Workplace Culture – [The New York Times] 12.19.19
Goldman Sachs Is in Talks to Settle Malaysia Fund Scandal – [The New York Times] 12.19.19
Bank of England Audio Was Leaked, Giving Some Traders an Edge – [The New York Times] 12.19.19
Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the I.P.O. Fizzle – [The New York Times] 12.19.19
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy – [The New York Times]12.19.19
Trump Impeached for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress – [The New York Times] 12.18.19
Google’s Larry Page Gave $400 Million in Christmas Donations. Not a Penny Went Straight to Charity. – [Vox]12.18.19
New York Life Aims to Diversify With $6.3bn Cigna Deal – [Financial Times]12.18.19
JPMorgan Wins Approval for Majority-Owned Chinese Securities Business – [Financial Times] 12.18.19
Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot Agree to Merge in Giant Auto Deal – [Financial Times] 12.18.19
Sycophants and ‘General Weirdness’ at SoftBank Vision Fund – [The New York Times] 12.18.19
Trump Administration Takes First Step to Allow Drug Imports From Canada – [The New York Times] 12.18.19
A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities, Giving Police Vast Powers – [The New York Times] 12.18.19
Twitter and Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They? – [The New York Times] 12.18.19
How Has This Pesticide Not Been Banned? – [The New York Times] 12.18.19
Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook’s Internal Divisions on Politics – [Wall Street Journal] 12.17.19
The Terror Queue – [The Verge] 12.17.19
Time to Make Some Money: The Business Career of Rudy Giuliani – [Financial Times] 12.17.19
UK Regulator Tightens Rules to Strengthen Audit Independence – [Financial Times] 12.17.19
Goldman Unveils Blackstone-like Investments Group – [Financial Times] 12.17.19
Uber in Talks to Sell Its Food-Delivery Business in India – [The New York Times] 12.17.19
Liquor Taxes Could Go Up 400%, Thanks to Congressional Dysfunction – [The New York Times] 12.17.19
China Responds Slowly, and a Pig Disease Becomes a Lethal Epidemic – [The New York Times] 12.17.19
How Trump Lost His Trade War – [The New York Times] 12.17.19
Corporations Paid 11.3 Percent Tax Rate Last Year, in Steep Drop Under President Trump’s Law – [The Washington Post] 12.16.19
What’s Going On With TikTok, China, and the US Government? – [Vox] 12.16.19
Elizabeth Warren Doubles Down on Economy in a Bid to Rejuvenate Campaign – [Wall Street Journal] 12.16.19
Huge Disparity in Corporate Profits Hints at Something Amiss – [Wall Street Journal] 12.16.19
T-Mobile-Sprint Trial: A Debate About Phone Bills – [Wall Street Journal] 12.16.19
Europe First: the EU’s Digital Industrialisation Challenge – [Financial Times] 12.16.19
Margrethe Vestager Examines Curbs on Non-EU State-Backed Companies – [Financial Times] 12.16.19
Boeing to Temporarily Shut Down 737 Max Production – [The New York Times] 12.16.19
Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World – [The New York Times] 12.16.19
There Are Economic Warning Signs for Trump in the Midwest – [The New York Times] 12.16.19
The Decade Tech Lost Its Way – [The New York Times] 12.16.19
How the Superrich Took Over the Museum World – [The New York Times] 12.16.19
Boris Johnson Will Change Britain Forever – [The New York Times] 12.13.19
Brexit: EU Leaders Hopeful of Softer Exit After Johnson Landslide – [The Guardian] 12.13.19
Boris Johnson Says Brexit Is ‘Unarguable Decision of the British People’ After Historic Tory Election Win – [The Guardian] 12.13.19
Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren Battle Over Their Corporate Pasts – [Financial Times] 12.13.19
Huawei Critics in China Inspired by Hong Kong Protests – [Financial Times] 12.13.19
US and China Near Trade Deal Lowering Tariffs – [Financial Times] 12.13.19
Federal Watchdog Questions Billions of Dollars Paid to Private Medicare Plans – [The New York Times] 12.13.19
British Election Heralds End of a Global Trade Era – [The New York Times] 12.13.19
She Accused a Tech Billionaire of Rape. The Chinese Internet Turned Against Her. – [The New York Times] 12.13.19
The New NAFTA Is Better Than No NAFTA at All – [The New York Times] 12.13.19
Is Big Tech Stepping Up? – [The New York Times] 12.13.19
Why the Antitrust Movement Has Become Such an Urgent Issue – [Business Insider] 12.12.19
Facebook Pledges $130 Million to Fund ‘Supreme Court’ for Content – [Wall Street Journal] 12.12.19
FTC Weighs Seeking Injunction Against Facebook Over How Its Apps Interact – [Wall Street Journal] 12.12.19
“Wall Street Pete”: Progressive Protesters Crash Buttigieg Fundraiser – [Vox] 12.12.19
A Decentralized Twitter Would Bring the Company Back to Its Past – [The Verge] 12.12.19
Europe’s Green Deal Could Be the Most Important in a Generation – [Financial Times] 12.12.19
Bloomberg’s Huge Plutocratic Gamble – [Financial Times] 12.12.19
Fintech: the Rise of the Asian ‘Super App’ – [Financial Times] 12.12.19
Boeing Hearing Puts Heat on F.A.A. Chief Over Max Crisis – [The New York Times] 12.12.19
Unions Skeptical Trump’s Trade Deal Will Bring Back Auto Jobs – [The New York Times] 12.12.19
China’s Companies Binged on Debt. Now They Can’t Pay the Bill. – [The New York Times] 12.12.19
Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments – [Bloomberg] 12.11.19
Ex-Credit Suisse Exec Says She Was Fired and Harassed When She Wouldn’t Bend Accounting Rules – [CNBC] 12.11.19
Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 MAX Crashes – [Wall Street Journal] 12.11.19
Americans Take Fish Antibiotics Because It’s Cheaper Than a Visit to the Doctor – [The Guardian] 12.11.19
Scenes From the Ragged Edge of American Health Care – [The New Republic] 12.11.19
Terrifying Videos Show Men Hacking Into Home Security Cameras – [The Cut] 12.11.19
Paul Volcker’s Final Warning for America – [Financial Times] 12.11.19
Take Back Our Party Chapter 1: Their Democratic Party – [The American Prospect] 12.11.19
Under Cover of Impeachment, Pelosi Wraps Up a Year’s Policymaking in 24 Hours – [The American Prospect] 12.11.19
Facebook No Longer Among Glassdoor’s Top 10 Workplaces – [Reuters] 12.11.19
E.U. Climate Plan Would Sweeten Deal for Coal Countries – [The New York Times] 12.11.19
America’s Dairy Farmers Are Hurting. A Giant Merger Could Make Things Worse. – [The New York Times] 12.11.19
This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry – [The New York Times] 12.11.19
New York City Paid McKinsey Millions to Stem Jail Violence. Instead, Violence Soared. – [ProPublica] 12.11.19
How Pete Buttigieg Spent His McKinsey Days: Blue Cross, Best Buy, U.S. Agencies – [The New York Times] 12.10.19
Online Shopping Is Growing, But Isn’t Creating Jobs – [Bloomberg] 12.10.19
Google Snaps Up Chief Medical Officer of Health Device Maker AliveCor, Weeks After Buying Fitbit – [CNBC] 12.10.19
Did Pete Buttigieg Get Hidden Campaign Support From a Real-Estate Developer? – [The American Prospect] 12.10.19
Tucker Carlson on Why Conservatives Should Crack Down on “Vulture Capitalism” – [Vox] 12.10.19
White House and House Democrats Reach Deal on Nafta Revamp – [Financial Times] 12.10.19
Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages – [The New York Times] 12.10.19
Big Tech’s Critics, Flush With Cash, Try to Build a Movement – [The New York Times] 12.10.19
Big Tech Is Under Attack, and Investors Couldn’t Care Less – [The New York Times] 12.10.19
Amazon Accuses Trump of ‘Improper Pressure’ on JEDI Contract – [The New York Times] 12.10.19
T-Mobile, Sprint Head to Court to Defend Merger – [Wall Street Journal] 12.09.19
Critics Say Facebook’s Powerful Ad Tools May Imperil Democracy. But Politicians Love Them. – [The Washington Post] 12.09.19
The Massive Triumph of the Rich, Illustrated by Stunning New Data – [The Washington Post] 12.09.19
Facebook Ads Push Misinformation About HIV Prevention Drugs, LGBT Activists Say, ‘Harming Public Health’ – [The Washington Post] 12.09.19
EU Regulators to Review Rules Defining Companies’ Market Power – [Reuters] 12.09.19
France Plans a Revolution to Rein in the Kings of Big Tech – [Wired] 12.09.19
For Tech Jobs, the Rich Cities Are Getting Richer – [Wired] 12.09.19
Prime Time: New York’s Amazon Fight Returns in 2020 Elections – [Politico] 12.09.19
How to Buy a Regulation in Six Short Months – [The American Prospect] 12.09.19
Paul A. Volcker, Fed Chairman Who Waged War on Inflation, Is Dead at 92 – [The New York Times] 12.09.19
Trump Cripples W.T.O. as Trade War Rages – [The New York Times] 12.09.19
Study Examines Why Black Americans Remain Scarce in Executive Suites – [The New York Times] 12.09.19
This Man May Be Big Tech’s Biggest Threat – [The New York Times] 12.09.19
Trump Administration Hinders Authority of W.T.O. – [Financial Times] 12.09.19
The Supreme Court Case That Made Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Possible — and Doomed Kamala Harris – [The Intercept] 12.06.19
Bloomberg Says 2020 Rivals Criticizing His Fortune Could Have Made Their Own – [The New York Times] 12.06.19
The Health Care Debate Has Baked Up Some Flimsy Media Narratives – [The New Republic] 12.06.19
Health Care Spending Grew At a Faster Rate in 2018 – [Axios] 12.06.19
Bernie Sanders Unveils Plan to Boost Broadband Access, Break Up Internet and Cable Titans – [CNBC] 12.06.19
TikTok Takes on Facebook in US Advertising Push – [Financial Times] 12.06.19
Fake ‘Likes’ Remain Just a Few Dollars Away, Researchers Say – [The New York Times] 12.06.19
Saudi Aramco Sells $25.6 billion in Shares for I.P.O. – [The New York Times] 12.06.19
Buttigieg’s Untenable Vow of Silence – [The New York Times] 12.06.19
Inside the Hate Factory: How Facebook Fuels Far-Right Profit – [The Guardian] 12.06.19
Uber Office Has Nice Port-a-Potties for ‘Employees Only,’ Inferior Ones for Drivers – [Vice] 12.05.19
Eyeing Populist Challenge From the Left, Trump Seeks Plan to Tackle Student Debt – [The Washington Post] 12.05.19
Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year – [The New York Times] 12.05.19
Hospitals Are Going to War Against Trump’s Price Transparency Push – [Axios] 12.05.19
The Techlash Zeroes in on Amazon – [Axios] 12.05.19
Brussels Steps Up Pressure on US Over Global Digital Tax Deal – [Financial Times] 12.05.19
China’s Genetic Research on Ethnic Minorities Sets Off Science Backlash – [The New York Times] 12.05.19
How Google’s Founders Slowly Stepped Away From Their Company – [The New York Times] 12.05.19
Young Sheldon, Meet SpongeBob: CBS and Viacom Are Back Together – [The New York Times] 12.05.19
Huawei Sues the F.C.C., Ramping Up Fight With Critics and Foes – [The New York Times] 12.05.19
Could Tax Increases Speed Up the Economy? Democrats Say Yes – [The New York Times] 12.05.19
Toxic Injustices – [The American Prospect] 12.05.19
The American Health Care Industry Is Killing People – [The New York Times] 12.04.19
How an e-Waste Sting Uncovered a Shocking Betrayal – [The Verge] 12.04.19
Supermarket Survival Means Matching Amazon – [Bloomberg] 12.04.19
Our Future Depends on Communities – [The New York Times] 12.04.19
How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Carry Out Its Immigration Policies – [The New York Times] 12.04.19
Labor Unions Team Up With Drug Makers to Defeat Drug-Price Proposals – [The New York Times] 12.04.19
WPP and Publicis Chart Contrasting Courses Through Advertising Gloom – [Financial Times] 12.04.19
Silicon Valley Learns Washington’s Language (and Vice Versa) – [The New York Times] 12.04.19
Warren Takes Aim at Bank Mergers, a Sign of Her Presidential Intentions – [The New York Times] 12.04.19
DeVos Proposes New Agency, Run by Someone Else, for Student Loans – [The New York Times] 12.04.19
Podcasts and Travel Apps? Facebook Is Working on Those – [The New York Times] 12.04.19
How Huawei Lost the Heart of the Chinese Public – [The New York Times] 12.04.19
Era Ends for Google as Founders Step Aside From a Pillar of Tech – [The New York Times] 12.03.19
Google Co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Relinquish Control of Alphabet to CEO Sundar Pichai – [The Verge] 12.03.19
We No Longer Expect Privacy. You Can Change That. – [The New York Times] 12.03.19
Trump Loses Appeal on Deutsche Bank Subpoenas – [The New York Times] 12.03.19
The Best Cyber Monday Deals According to Alexa: Any Amazon-Owned Brand – [Vox] 12.03.19
A Make-or-Break Moment for Journalism – [The American Prospect] 12.03.19
World’s Biggest Pension Fund Strikes Blow Against Short-Sellers – [Financial Times] 12.03.19
Trump Says He Is Prepared to Wait to Strike US-China Trade Deal – [Financial Times] 12.03.19
Brazil Reforms: Has Jair Bolsonaro Missed His Moment? – [Financial Times] 12.03.19
Sex Trafficking via Facebook Sets Off a Lawyer’s Novel Crusade – [The New York Times] 12.03.19
China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West – [The New York Times] 12.03.19
French Wine Could Face 100% Tariffs as Trump Confronts France Over Tech Taxes – [The New York Times] 12.03.19
Trump Warns Trade Talks With China May Last Past 2020 Election – [The New York Times] 12.03.19
Google and YouTube Reportedly Pull Hundreds of Trump Ads for Violating Policies – [The Guardian] 12.02.19
Trump Campaign to Blacklist Bloomberg News – [Axios] 12.02.19
Zuckerberg Stands By Facebook Ad Policy, Saying Politicians Shouldn’t Be Censored – [Huff Post] 12.02.19
Facebook Addresses Antitrust Concerns With New Tool That Lets You Transfer Photos to Google – [CNBC] 12.02.19
Private Prisons Face an Uncertain Future As States Turn Their Backs on the Industry – [Vox] 12.02.19
UK Competition Watchdog Probes Google’s $2.6bn Looker Deal – [Financial Times] 12.02.19
Europe First: How Brussels Is Retooling Industrial Policy – [Financial Times] 12.02.19
Amazon Removes Holiday Ornaments With Images of Auschwitz After Criticism – [The New York Times] 12.02.19
Warren Wealth Tax Has Wide Support, Except Among One Group – [The New York Times] 12.02.19
Trump Says U.S. Will Reinstate Metal Tariffs on Brazil and Argentina – [The New York Times] 12.02.19
Trump’s Trade Deal Steals a Page From Democrats’ Playbook – [The New York Times] 12.02.19
A Better Internet Is Waiting for Us – [The New York Times] 12.02.19
Who Will Tell the Truth About the Free Press? – [The New York Times] 12.02.19
Antitrust Warrior Matt Stoller Warns That If We Don’t Take on Big Tech, ‘We’ll Become a Fascist Society’ – [Fast Company] 12.01.19
How Medical Bills Bankrupt Hundreds of Thousands of People Every Year – [GQ] 11.30.19
EU Ministers to Vote on Move to Expose Firms’ Tax Avoidance – [The Guardian] 11.27.19
As Black Friday Approaches, Amazon Workers Demand Better Labor Conditions – [Vox] 11.27.19
Ridiculous D.C. Invite of the Week: Tax Prom! – [The American Prospect] 11.27.19
Inside Epstein’s Embellished Charitable Giving – [The New York Times] 11.27.19
Trump’s Tax Truce With France Expires, but the Path Ahead Remains Unclear – [The New York Times] 11.27.19
Meet the Leftish Economist With a New Story About Capitalism – [The New York Times] 11.27.19
TikTok Blocks Teen Who Posted About China’s Detention Camps – [The New York Times] 11.27.19
Coming Clean on Dirty Money After the Epstein Scandal – [Financial Times] 11.26.19
Here’s How Much America’s Billionaires Give to Charity, in One Chart – [Vox] 11.26.19
StubHub Sold to Smaller Rival Viagogo for Over $4 Billion – [The New York Times] 11.26.19
The Curious Case of Aurelius Capital v. Puerto Rico – [The New York Times] 11.26.19
Google Fires 4 Workers Active in Labor Organizing – [The New York Times] 11.26.19
Activists Build a Grass-Roots Alliance Against Amazon – [The New York Times] 11.26.19
Digital Democracy Will Face Its Greatest Test in 2020 – [The Guardian] 11.25.19
AIG Fights Attempt to Make It Pay $100m in Bonuses – [Financial Times] 11.25.19
Buttigieg’s ‘Big Tent’ Appeal Rises in Silicon Valley – [Financial Times] 11.25.19
The California DMV Is Making $50M a Year Selling Drivers’ Personal Information – [Vice] 11.25.19
Cuomo Frustrates Requests for Amazon Records – [Wall Street Journal] 11.25.19
How a Facebook Employee Helped Trump Win—But Switched Sides for 2020 – [Wall Street Journal] 11.25.19
Amazon Doesn’t Favor Its Own Brands—Except When It Does – [Wired] 11.25.19
Beware Big Tech’s Embrace Of Regulation – [The American Conservative] 11.25.19
Novartis to Buy the Medicines Company for $9.7 Billion – [The New York Times] 11.25.19
Charles Schwab to Buy TD Ameritrade for $26 Billion as Free Trading Takes Over – [The New York Times] 11.25.19
Luxury Giant LVMH to Buy Tiffany for $16.2 Billion – [The New York Times] 11.25.19
Uber Is Fighting to Survive in London After Losing Its License – [The New York Times] 11.25.19
I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It. – [The New York Times] 11.25.19
Facebook Helped Bill O’Reilly Shill For A Company Accused Of Scamming Customers – [Huff Post] 11.25.19
University to Students on Medicaid: Buy Private Coverage, or Drop Out – [The New York Times] 11.25.19
Bloomberg News Won’t Investigate The Former Mayor During His Presidential Run – [Huff Post] 11.24.19
Michael Bloomberg Joins 2020 Democratic Field for President – [The New York Times] 11.24.19
Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook – [The Daily Beast] 11.22.19
Campaigns Pressure Facebook to Stay Put on Political Ads – [The New York Times] 11.22.19
A Former Fox News Executive Divides Americans Using Russian Tactics – [The New York Times] 11.22.19
Israel’s Netanyahu Indicted on Charges of Fraud, Bribery and Breach of Trust – [The New York Times] 11.21.19
A Fair Labor Market for Food-Chain Workers – [The American Prospect] 11.21.19
Trump’s Bizarre Apple Factory Visit – [The New York Times] 11.21.19
Trump Floats Tariff Exclusions for Apple at Texas Manufacturing Plant – [The New York Times] 11.21.19
Media Workers Call Out Pay Gaps in Crowdsourced Spreadsheets – [The New York Times] 11.21.19
G.M. Sues Rival Over Bribery Scheme as Union Scandal Expands – [The New York Times] 11.21.19
Dozens of Facebook Lobbyists Tied to Members of Congress, Investigation Shows – [The Guardian] 11.21.19
Warren Doubles Down on Pledge to Not Give Diplomatic Posts to Donors – [The Hill] 11.21.19
Google to Restrict Political Ad Targeting on Its Platforms – [Wall Street Journal] 11.21.19
A Fair Labor Market for Food-Chain Workers – [The American Prospect] 11.21.19
Trump’s Bizarre Apple Factory Visit – [The New York Times] 11.21.19
Trump Floats Tariff Exclusions for Apple at Texas Manufacturing Plant – [The New York Times] 11.21.19
Media Workers Call Out Pay Gaps in Crowdsourced Spreadsheets – [The New York Times] 11.21.19
G.M. Sues Rival Over Bribery Scheme as Union Scandal Expands – [The New York Times] 11.21.19
Dozens of Facebook Lobbyists Tied to Members of Congress, Investigation Shows – [The Guardian] 11.21.19
Warren Doubles Down on Pledge to Not Give Diplomatic Posts to Donors – [The Hill] 11.21.19
Google to Restrict Political Ad Targeting on Its Platforms – [Wall Street Journal] 11.21.19
Google Hires Firm Known for Anti-Union Efforts – [The New York Times] 11.20.19
Liberal ‘Dark Money’ Operation Behind Ads Urging Republicans to Support Impeachment – [OpenSecrets.org] 11.20.19
How the Collapse of Local News Is Causing a ‘National Crisis’ – [The New York Times] 11.20.19
Suspicious Robocalls Pitching Health Insurance Surged in October. Now, the Feds Are Scrambling to Act. – [The Washington Post] 11.20.19
Sondland Acknowledges There Was a ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Involving Ukraine – [The Washington Post] 11.20.19
Betrayed by the Big Four: Whistleblowers Speak Out – [Financial Times] 11.20.19
Alibaba to Raise Up to $12.9bn in Hong Kong Listing – [Financial Times] 11.20.19
How Democrats Would Tax High-Income Professionals – [The New York Times] 11.20.19
Antitrust Remedies to the Domination of Digital Platform Technologies and the Acquisition of Nascent Competitors – [Equitable Growth] 11.19.19
What Is End-to-End Encryption? Another Bull’s-Eye on Big Tech – [The New York Times] 11.19.19
Gannett, Now Largest U.S. Newspaper Chain, Targets ‘Inefficiencies’ – [The New York Times] 11.19.19
Doing the Health Care Two-Step – [The New York Times] 11.19.19
Wall Street Executives Line Up Behind Mike Bloomberg – Which Could Hurt Fundraising for Biden, Others – [CNBC] 11.19.19
Trump’s Bank Regulators Open the Door to More Predatory Lending – [The American Prospect] 11.19.19
Wall Street’s Finest Walk Into a $2 Trillion Mess on Saudi Aramco – [Bloomberg] 11.19.19
WeWork Planning to Cut Thousands of Jobs – [The Washington Post] 11.19.19
Facebook Still Isn’t Clear About Why It Won’t Take Down False Political Ads – [Vox] 11.19.19
How Riyadh’s Saudi Aramco Ambitions Were Thwarted – [Financial Times] 11.19.19
Most German Banks Are Imposing Negative Rates on Corporate Clients – [Financial Times] 11.19.19
Global Digital Tax Plans Would Be a Flop, French Council Warns – [Financial Times] 11.19.19
TikTok’s Bid to Regain Trust – [The New York Times] 11.19.19
How Democrats Would Tax High-Income Professionals (Not Just the Mega-Rich) – [The New York Times] 11.19.19
Silicon Valley’s Biggest Foe Is Getting Even Tougher – [The New York Times] 11.19.19
The Utah Statement: Reviving Antimonopoly Traditions for the Era of Big Tech – [Medium] 11.18.19
Justice Department to Terminate Longstanding Legal Rules for Movie Distribution – [Wall Street Journal] 11.18.19
The Left Smells a Rat in Bloomberg, Patrick Bids – [Politico] 11.18.19
Google Requested a Trove of Documents From the Texas Attorney General’s Antitrust Probe – [CNN] 11.18.19
Our Personal Data Needs Protecting From Big Tech – [Financial Times] 11.18.19
How Elizabeth Warren Misread the Politics of Health Care – [The American Prospect] 11.18.19
Aramco Failure to Win Foreign Investors Makes IPO a Local Event – [Bloomberg] 11.18.19
SoftBank Signs $30bn Deal Between Yahoo Japan and Line – [Financial Times] 11.18.19
Google’s Stadia Takes Aim at $130bn Video Game Market – [Financial Times] 11.18.19
Facebook’s Fake Numbers Problem — Lex In Depth – [Financial Times] 11.18.19
T-Mobile’s Longtime C.E.O., John Legere, to Step Down – [The New York Times] 11.18.19
WeWork May Lay Off Thousands – [The New York Times] 11.18.19
How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0 – [The New York Times] 11.18.19
TikTok’s Chief Is on a Mission to Prove It’s Not a Menace – [The New York Times] 11.18.19
Make Antitrust Democratic Again! – [The Nation] 11.15.19
How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results – [Wall Street Journal] 11.15.19
Google to Restrict User Information It Gives Advertisers – [Wall Street Journal] 11.15.19
Google Scales Back Its Culture of Transparency, As All-Hands Meetings Become Monthly – [The Washington Post] 11.15.19
How Amazon’s Quest for More, Cheaper Products Has Resulted in a Flea Market of Fakes – [The Washington Post] 11.15.19
Bloomberg Will Spend $100 Million on Anti-Trump Online Ad Blitz – [The New York Times] 11.15.19
After Its Merger, Gannett Will Be the Largest Newspaper Publisher in the U.S. – [The New York Times] 11.15.19
Amazon Protesting Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Contract – [The New York Times] 11.15.19
To Lower Costs, Trump to Force Hospitals to Reveal Price of Care – [The New York Times] 11.15.19
Nestlé Says It Can Be Virtuous and Profitable. Is That Even Possible? – [The New York Times] 11.15.19
What Ads Are Political? Twitter Struggles With a Definition – [The New York Times] 11.15.19
Raise Billions From Billionaires? Tax Experts Say It’s Not That Simple – [The New York Times] 11.15.19
Elizabeth Warren Vows to Expand Health Coverage in First 100 Days – [The New York Times] 11.15.19
Amazon Strikes Back at Trump Over $10bn Jedi Contract – [Financial Times] 11.14.19
I’m the Google Whistleblower. The Medical Data of Millions of Americans Is At Risk – [The Guardian] 11.14.19
Elizabeth Warren Slams Goldman Over Apple Card Bias Furor – [Bloomberg] 11.14.19
The Everything Town in the Middle of Nowhere – [The Verge] 11.14.19
How Donald Trump Is Using Facebook to Amplify His Fight Against Impeachment – [Vox] 11.14.19
Year of ‘Gilets Jaunes’ Leaves Angry Mark on France – [Financial Times] 11.14.19
Why the US Economy Isn’t As Competitive or Free As You Think – [Financial Times] 11.14.19
EU Prepares Tweak to Mifid Market Rules After Industry Backlash – [Financial Times] 11.14.19
Trump Says Business Leaders ‘Have No Choice’ but to Vote for Him – [The New York Times] 11.14.19
Google Makes a Bid for Banking, Where Tech Firms Go to Stumble – [The New York Times] 11.13.19
Nike Won’t Sell Directly to Amazon Anymore – [CNBC] 11.13.19
One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions – [Bloomberg] 11.13.19
Trump Advisers Exploring Tax Proposal That Would Lower ‘Middle Class’ Rate to 15 Percent – [The Washington Post] 11.13.19
Race Discrimination Standards Hang in the Balance as Supreme Court Takes Up Comcast Suit – [The Washington Post] 11.13.19
Next in Google’s Quest for Consumer Dominance—Banking – [Wall Street Journal] 11.13.19
Angela Merkel Urges EU to Seize Control of Data from US Tech Titans – [Financial Times] 11.13.19
How Top Health Websites Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Advertisers – [Financial Times] 11.13.19
Trump Renews Tariff Threat Against China and Touts U.S. Economic ‘Boom’ – [The New York Times] 11.12.19
The SoftBank Effect: How $100 Billion Left Workers in a Hole – [The New York Times] 11.12.19
Warren Wants to Make It a Crime for Corporations to Lie to Regulators – [Mother Jones] 11.12.19
Google’s Secret Cache of Medical Data Includes Names and Full Details of Millions – Whistleblower – [The Guardian] 11.12.19
Disney Launches a Blitzkrieg in the Streaming Wars – [The American Prospect] 11.12.19
Worsening Hong Kong Violence Could Embolden Hawks in Xi’s China – [Bloomberg] 11.12.19
WeWork Talks to T-Mobile USA Boss Over Chief Executive Job – [Financial Times] 11.12.19
Fervor Grows for Regulating Big Tech – [The New York Times] 11.12.19
Facebook’s New Role as News Publisher Brings New Scrutiny – [The New York Times] 11.12.19
A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard – [The New York Times] 11.12.19
Google to Store and Analyze Millions of Health Records – [The New York Times] 11.12.19
E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules – [The New York Times] 11.12.19
Who’s Afraid of Elizabeth Warren? – [The New York Times] 11.12.19
KKR Makes Formal Approach to Walgreens Boots on Record Buyout – [Bloomberg] 11.11.19
Latin Americans Are Clamoring for Equality — and Democracy – [The New York Times] 11.11.19
A Californian Economist Loves Neoliberalism. When Chileans Started Protesting It, He Opened Fire on Them. – [The Washington Post] 11.11.19
Big Tech’s Yes Men Reassure Each Other at Harvard Law Conference – [The American Prospect] 11.11.19
As Gannett Merger Nears Completion, Union Claims ‘Journalism Will Suffer’ Under Deal – [The Washington Post] 11.11.19
Uber CEO Calls Slaying of Jamal Khashoggi ‘a Mistake’ and Compares It to a Self-Driving Car Crash – [The Washington Post] 11.11.19
Apple’s Credit Card Is Being Investigated for Discriminating Against Women – [The Verge] 11.11.19
All of America’s 607 Billionaires Must Run for President – [The Intercept] 11.11.19
The Wealth Tax Plan Worrying US Billionaires – [Financial Times] 11.11.19
Warren Would Take Billionaires Down a Few Billion Pegs – [The New York Times] 11.11.19
Europe Is Toughest on Big Tech, Yet Big Tech Still Reigns – [The New York Times] 11.11.19
Big Business Is Overcharging You $5,000 a Year – [The New York Times] 11.11.19
DOJ Issues New Warning to Big Tech: Data and Privacy Could be Competition Concerns – [The Washington Post] 11.09.19
How the Tech Duopoly Killed the Headphone Jack – [The Week] 11.08.19
Amazon Merchant Lays Out Antitrust Case in Letter to Congress – [Bloomberg] 11.08.19
How Leaked Court Documents Reveal Facebook’s Fundamental Paranoia – [The Verge] 11.08.19
T-Mobile’s Latest Merger Gambit Isn’t Subtle – [The Verge] 11.08.19
Here’s What WeWork Is Giving Laid-Off Employees Who Aren’t Named Adam Neumann – [Vox] 11.08.19
American Companies Tiptoe Toward China’s Big Shopping Day – [The New York Times] 11.08.19
New Orleans Battle Fought Anew: Fossil Fuel vs. Clean Power – [The New York Times] 11.08.19
Awaiting Layoffs, WeWork Employees Seek a ‘Seat at the Table’ – [The New York Times] 11.08.19
The Billionaires Are Getting Nervous – [The New York Times] 11.08.19
Does America Need Another Billionaire in the 2020 Race? Bloomberg Thinks So – [The Guardian] 11.08.19
Michael Bloomberg Takes Steps Towards Democratic Presidential Run – [Financial Times] 11.08.19
How to Get Past the US-China Trade War – [Project Syndicate] 11.07.19
China and US Agree to Lift Some Tariffs in Sign of Trade War Thaw – [Financial Times] 11.07.19
Alphabet Board Investigates Sexual Misconduct Accusations – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
Trump Administration Sues Gilead, Maker of H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
China Is Trying to Clean Up Its Banks. It’s Messy. – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
Powerful Coalition Pushes Back on Anti-Tech Fervor – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
Why $4.5 Billion From Big Tech Won’t End California Housing Crisis – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
China Says U.S. Will, and Must, Cut Tariffs to Reach a Trade Deal – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
California Sues Facebook for Documents in Privacy Investigation – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
Sanders to Spend More Than $30 Million on Advertising in Early States – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
The Big Problem With Wealth Taxes – [The New York Times] 11.07.19
Mega-Billionaire Bill Gates Doesn’t Want To Pay Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax – [Huff Post] 11.07.19
An Explosion of Fake News on Facebook – [Popular Information] 11.06.19
Why Walmart and Other Companies Are Sticking With the Paris Climate Deal – [The New York Times] 11.06.19
Whatever You Think of Facebook, the NSO Group Is Worse – [The New York Times] 11.06.19
The Inflation Gap – [The Atlantic] 11.06.19
Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP – [Wall Street Journal] 11.06.19
T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Approved by FCC in a 3-2 Vote – [Wall Street Journal] 11.06.19
Journalism Officially Goes Non-Profit – [Financial Times] 11.06.19
Elizabeth Warren Is Asking the Most Important Question on Health Care – [The New York Times] 11.05.19
The World Has Gone Mad and the System Is Broken – [LinkedIn] 11.05.19
This New Logo Will Surely Solve All of Facebook’s Problems – [The Verge] 11.05.19
Bernie Sanders Escalates the War on Tech and Calls Out Apple’s “Hypocrisy” on Housing – [Vox] 11.05.19
Facebook Rebrands As FACEBOOK: Can Capital Letters Save a Toxic Brand? – [The Guardian] 11.05.19
US Price-Fixing Prosecutions at Historic Low for Third Straight Year – [Financial Times] 11.05.19
US Considers Dropping Some Tariffs on China – [Financial Times] 11.05.19
China’s TikTok Blazes New Ground. That Could Doom It. – [The New York Times] 11.05.19
China’s Xi Praises Free Trade. Striking Deals Is Another Matter. – [The New York Times] 11.05.19
Apple Commits $2.5 Billion to Ease California Housing Crunch – [The New York Times] 11.05.19
SoftBank May Tighten the Reins on Start-Up Founders – [The New York Times] 11.05.19
E.U. Defends Farm Subsidy Program Exploited by Autocrats – [The New York Times] 11.04.19
Uber Posts $1.2 Billion Loss as Growth Improves – [The New York Times] 11.04.19
Scientists With Links to China May Be Stealing Biomedical Research, U.S. Says – [The New York Times] 11.04.19
Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming – [The New York Times] 11.04.19
The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. for Millions – [The New York Times] 11.04.19
Saudi Aramco Announces Plans to Go Public – [The New York Times] 11.03.19
Online Political Ads Are in Urgent Need of Regulation – [Financial Times] 11.01.19
How Deadspin Imploded – [The New York Times] 11.01.19
The Sovereign State of Facebook – [Axios] 11.01.19
Google to Buy Fitbit for $2.1 Billion – [The New York Times] 11.01.19
TikTok Said to Be Under National Security Review – [The New York Times] 11.01.19
Did Warren Pass the Medicare Test? I Think So – [The New York Times] 11.01.19
To Beat Trump, Focus on His Corruption – [The New York Times] 11.01.19
Elizabeth Warren Proposes $20.5 Trillion Health Care Plan – [The New York Times] 11.01.19
Toronto’s City of Tomorrow Is Scaled Back Amid Privacy Concerns – [The New York Times] 10.31.19
A Divided House Backs Impeachment Probe of Trump – [The Washington Post] 10.31.19
A Facebook Content Moderation Vendor Is Quitting the Business After Two Verge Investigations – [The Verge] 10.31.19
It’s Harder to Ban Political Ads on Twitter Than It Sounds – [The Verge] 10.31.19
China’s Tech Billionaires Keep It in the Family Office – [Financial Times] 10.31.19
How the Borgias Point the Way for Trump’s America – [Financial Times] 10.31.19
The Powerful Forces Reshaping America’s Capital Markets – [Financial Times] 10.31.19
Was That the Best Subtweet Ever? – [The New York Times] 10.31.19
Fiat Chrysler and PSA, Maker of Peugeot, to Merge – [The New York Times] 10.31.19
Deutsche Bank Reported Its Own Russian Deal as Suspicious – [The New York Times] 10.31.19
Say Hello to a New Auto Giant – [The New York Times] 10.31.19
This Guy Thought He Beat Facebook’s Controversial Political Ads Policy – [The New York Times] 10.31.19
Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg – [The New York Times] 10.31.19
Twitter Will Ban All Political Advertising Starting in November – [The Verge] 10.30.19
Facebook’s Earnings and Revenue Jump, Topping Forecasts – [The New York Times] 10.30.19
Twitter Will Ban All Political Advertising Starting in November – [The Verge] 10.30.19
Facebook’s Political Ads Policy Is Predictably Turning Out to Be a Disaster – [Recode] 10.30.19
Margrethe Vestager Eyes Toughening ‘Burden of Proof’ for Big Tech – [Financial Times] 10.30.19
State of Health Report Shows Growing Despair Among American Men – [Bloomberg] 10.30.19
Creating a New Federal Agency to Regulate Big Tech Would Be a Disaster – [The Washington Post] 10.30.19
Inside the WhatsApp Hack: How an Israeli Technology Was Used to Spy – [Financial Times] 10.30.19
Fiat Chrysler and PSA, the Maker of Peugeot, Confirm Merger Talks – [The New York Times] 10.30.19
Russia Tests New Disinformation Tactics in Africa to Expand Influence – [The New York Times] 10.30.19
Trump, Zuckerberg & Pals Are Breaking America – [The New York Times] 10.30.19
WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program – [The New York Times] 10.30.19
U.S. Blames Drug Shortages on Low Prices and a ‘Broken Marketplace’ – [The New York Times] 10.30.19
Mark Zuckerberg Needs to Shut Up – [Wired] 10.30.19
The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets – [The Atlantic] 10.29.19
Google Parent Alphabet Hit by Rising Costs – [Financial Times] 10.29.19
Australia Says Google Misled Consumers Over Location Tracking – [The New York Times] 10.29.19
Boeing C.E.O. Faces Congress for First Time Since 737 Max Crashes – [The New York Times] 10.29.19
Which Antitrust Investigations Should Big Tech Worry About? – [Financial Times] 10.28.19
California’s Blackouts Reveal Health Care’s Fragile Power System – [The Verge] 10.28.19
Amazon’s Battle in Seattle Is a Fight Against Worker Power – [The American Prospect] 10.28.19
The Toxic Nationalism of the Pharmaceutical Industry – [The New Republic] 10.28.19
Chilean Capitalism on Trial – [Wall Street Journal] 10.28.19
The Way We Measure the Economy Obscures What Is Really Going On – [The New York Times] 10.28.19
Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads – [The New York Times] 10.28.19
London School of Economics Academics Outraged by Proposed China Programme – [Financial Times] 10.28.19
Symbol of ’80s Greed Stands to Profit From Trump Tax Break for Poor Areas – [The New York Times] 10.28.19
Disney Is New to Streaming, but Its Marketing Is Unmatched – [The New York Times] 10.28.19
Chinese Investment Pits Wall Street Against Washington – [The New York Times] 10.28.19
The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads – [The New York Times] 10.28.19
Mark Zuckerberg Is Struggling to Explain Why Breitbart Belongs on Facebook News – [The Verge] 10.27.19
Google Grappling With Trust Issues, CEO Pichai Says – [CNET] 10.26.19
Wealth Taxes Often Failed in Europe. They Wouldn’t Here. – [The Washington Post] 10.26.19
Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Contract, Thwarting Amazon – [The New York Times] 10.26.19
Wealth Taxes Often Failed in Europe. They Wouldn’t Here. – [The Washington Post] 10.25.19
Google Is Profiting From Notorious Hate Group’s Ads – [The American Prospect] 10.25.19
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build a New Currency for Facebook. Congress Had Some Questions — and Grievances. – [Vox] 10.25.19
WeWork’s Sparsely Populated China Offices Drain Company’s Cash – [Financial Times] 10.25.19
Amazon’s Profit Falls Sharply as Company Buys Growth – [The New York Times] 10.25.19
George Soros Says Wall Street Won’t Decide the 2020 Election – [The New York Times] 10.25.19
George Soros Has Enemies. He’s Fine With That. – [The New York Times] 10.25.19
Facebook Calls Truce With Publishers as It Unveils Facebook News – [The New York Times] 10.25.19
‘It’s Definitely Pretty Empty’: Why Saving WeWork Will Be Hard – [The New York Times] 10.25.19
The C.E.O. Taking On the Gun Lobby – [The New York Times] 10.25.19
Pentagon Pushes Tech Industry to Help U.S. Retain Military Edge – [The New York Times] 10.25.19
Why Doesn’t Mark Zuckerberg Get It? – [The New York Times] 10.25.19
Warren, Wyden call for FTC investigation of Amazon over Capital One breach – [CNET] 10.24.19
Facebook Could Do to Banks What It Did to Newspapers – [Bloomberg] 10.24.19
Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Squelch Worker Dissent – [Bloomberg] 10.24.19
Why Zuckerberg’s Embrace of Mayor Pete Should Worry You – [Wired] 10.24.19
How Facebook Bought a Police Force – [Vice] 10.24.19
Senators Ask FTC to Investigate Amazon Over Capital One Hack – [Wall Street Journal] 10.24.19
Amazon Sells Clothes From Factories Other Retailers Blacklist – [Wall Street Journal] 10.24.19
Top U.S. Toxicologist Was Barred From Saying PFAS Cause Disease in Humans. She’s Saying it Now – [The Intercept] 10.24.19
Bernie Sanders Vows to Revive Criminal Prosecutions of CEOs – [The Intercept] 10.24.19
Trump’s Heralded Whistleblower Office at VA Has Failed Its Most Basic Mission, Watchdog Says – [The Washington Post] 10.24.19
The Black-and-White World of Big Tech – [The New York Times] 10.24.19
Disney’s Iger Staying Silent on Hong Kong Protests After NBA’s China Row – [Bloomberg] 10.23.19
Updating Antitrust Laws Is the Answer to Big Tech Monopolies – [Fast Company] 10.23.19
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Realize Other People Don’t Have Money – [Quartz] 10.23.19
Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People – [Wired] 10.23.19
Zuckerberg, in Washington to Talk Cryptocurrency, Gets Grilled on Everything – [The New York Times] 10.23.19
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Takes Bipartisan Lashing on Libra, 2020 Election at Congressional Hearing – [The Washington Post] 10.23.19
Facebook to Offer “News” Tab for Users — and Pay (Some) Publishers for Their Work – [The Washington Post] 10.23.19
Ridiculous D.C. Invite of the Week: Verizon’s Criminal Justice Forum – [The American Prospect] 10.23.19
WeWork Rescue: the Winners and the Losers – [Financial Times] 10.23.19
Wall St. and Washington to Return to Saudi Investment Meeting – [The New York Times] 10.23.19
The Enduring Power of Anticapitalism in American Politics – [The New York Times] 10.23.19
Chile Learns the Price of Economic Inequality – [The New York Times] 10.23.19
Trump Officials Battle Over Plan to Keep Technology Out of Chinese Hands – [The New York Times] 10.23.19
Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think – [The New York Times] 10.23.19
WeWork Needed a Bailout—But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire – [Bloomberg] 10.23.19
WeWork’s Adam Neumann Will Get a $1.7 Billion Package to Step Down From Board – [CNBC] 10.22.19
Congress Could Require Facebook to Build More Open APIs Under New Bill – [The Verge] 10.22.19
Facebook Goes on Offense Ahead of Next Year’s Elections – [The Verge] 10.22.19
Banks and Landlords Want to Overturn Federal Rules on Housing Algorithms – [The Verge] 10.22.19
Warren Wants to End Vouchers and Tax Credits for Private Schools and Rein in Charters – [The Intercept] 10.22.19
Mark Zuckerberg Is the New Political Villain for the Democratic Party – [Vox] 10.22.19
IBM Researchers Dismiss Google ‘Quantum Supremacy’ Claim – [Financial Times] 10.22.19
WeWork and SoftBank: Helical Horror Show – [Financial Times] 10.22.19
Wall St’s Top Cops Defend New Focus on Main St – [Financial Times] 10.22.19
WeWork Founder Trades Voting Power to Back SoftBank Rescue – [Financial Times] 10.22.19
WeWork’s Lifeline Could Wipe $39 Billion Off Its Valuation – [The New York Times] 10.22.19
PG&E Warns It Could Cut Power to California Users Again – [The New York Times] 10.22.19
Can Warren Escape the Medicare Trap? – [The New York Times] 10.22.19
Facebook Finds New Disinformation Campaigns and Braces for 2020 Torrent – [The New York Times] 10.21.19
Mark Zuckerberg’s Plea for the Billionaire Class Is Deeply Anti-Democratic – [The Guardian] 10.21.19
In a Strong Economy, Why Are So Many Workers on Strike? – [The New York Times] 10.21.19
Attorney General’s Antitrust Power Play Is Just What Trump Wants – [Bloomberg] 10.21.19
House Democrats Are Failing to Protect Farmers from Trump – [The Washington Monthly] 10.21.19
Ohio Counties, Drug Firms Reach $260 Million Settlement in Opioid Epidemic Case, Averting Trial – [The Washington Post] 10.21.19
Why Trump Dropped His Idea to Hold the G7 at His Own Hotel – [The New York Times] 10.21.19
Inequality in ‘Stable’ Chile Ignites the Fires of Unrest – [Financial Times]10.21.19
US Companies Battle for Control of 5G Spectrum – [Financial Times] 10.21.19
Europeans Have Double Standards on Transatlantic Trade – [Financial Times]10.21.19
Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle – [The New York Times] 10.21.19
Estate Taxes Are Easy to Flee, but They Still Help States – [The New York Times] 10.21.19
Major Drug Companies Agree to Last-Minute Settlement of Opioid Trial – [The New York Times] 10.21.19
Facebook Reaches Deal With Wall Street Journal Publisher, Others for News Section – [Wall Street Journal]10.18.19
The Problem with Amazon’s Speedy Shipping, in One Graphic – [Vox]10.18.19
Affordable Housing Is Disappearing. So Cities Are Designating Parking Lots to Sleep In. – [Vox] 10.18.19
Basic Income Can’t Do Enough to Help Workers Displaced by Technology – [Vox] 10.18.19
Senators Propose Near-Total Ban on Worker Noncompete Agreements – [Ars Technica] 10.18.19
How the Wheels Came Off Facebook’s Libra Project – [The Guardian] 10.18.19
The Outcry Over Deaths on Amazon’s Warehouse Floor – [The Guardian]10.18.19
Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Free Speech in the 21st Century – [The Guardian] 10.18.19
We Found Over 700 Doctors Who Were Paid More Than a Million Dollars by Drug and Medical Device Companies – [ProPublica] 10.18.19
Why Is a Secretive Billionaire Buying Up the Cayman Islands? – [The New York Times] 10.18.19
China’s Cryptocurrency Plan Has a Powerful Partner: Big Brother – [The New York Times] 10.18.19
What Happens When Employers Can Read Your Facial Expressions? – [The New York Times] 10.18.19
Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Know His Civil Rights History – [The Washington Post] 10.18.19
Defiant Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won’t Police Political Speech – [The New York Times] 10.17.19
Facebook Warns Washington That Beijing Wins If Libra Plan Fails – [Bloomberg] 10.17.19
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says in Interview He Fears “Erosion of Truth” but Defends Allowing Politicians to Lie in Ads – [The Washington Post] 10.17.19
Facebook Co-Founder and Critic Chris Hughes Spearheads a $10 Million ‘Anti-Monopoly’ Fund – [The Washington Post] 10.17.19
Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Press – [The New York Times] 10.17.19
Trump Will Host Next G7 at His Doral Resort – [The New York Times] 10.17.19
Mulvaney Says G7 Summit Will Be At Trump’s Doral Resort in Miami – [Axios] 10.17.19
Dark Money and Big Donors Fuel the Ballot Battle Over Proposition CC in Colorado – [Colorado Sun] 10.17.19
The Creepy Way Facebook And Amazon Profit Off Our Private Data – [Huff Post] 10.17.19
Here’s Why Boris Johnson’s Plans Have Every Chance of Falling Apart – [The Guardian] 10.17.19
Boris Johnson and EU Reach Brexit Deal Without DUP Backing – [The Guardian] 10.17.19
Brexit Deal Agreed as Boris Johnson Arrives for EU Summit – [CNN] 10.17.19
Facebook Finally Has a Good Idea – [The New York Times] 10.17.19
Corporate America’s Second War With the Rule of Law – [Wired] 10.16.19
For the First Time, Workers Are Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than Investors and Owners – [The Washington Post] 10.16.19
Uber Is a Test Case for Taxing Digital Platforms – [Financial Times] 10.16.19
EU Set to Announce Anti-Trust Measures Against Chipmaker Broadcom – [Financial Times] 10.16.19
Fed ‘Repo’ Plan Could Face Fund Manager Resistance – [Financial Times]10.16.19
Everybody Went After Elizabeth Warren Over Medicare-for-All – [Vox]10.16.19
What’s Really in the Trade Deal Trump Announced With China – [The New York Times] 10.16.19
Ad Giant Wins Over Disney With Big Data Pitch – [The New York Times]10.16.19
DreamWorks Film ‘Abominable’ Is Pulled by Vietnam Over Chinese Map Scene – [The New York Times] 10.16.19
Health Care and Billionaires Took Center Stage at Last Night’s Democratic Debate – [The New York Times] 10.16.19
For ‘Erin Brockovich’ Fans, a David vs. Goliath Tale With a Twist – [The New York Times] 10.15.19
Documents Reveal Hospital Industry Is Leading Fight Against Medicare for All – [The Intercept] 10.15.19
Bank of England Boss Says Global Finance Is Funding 4C Temperature Rise – [The Guardian] 10.15.19
Asset Managers Must Use Their Votes to Tackle Climate Change – [Financial Times] 10.15.19
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Stop Corporate PACs From Donating To Candidates – [Huff Post] 10.15.19
‘I’m Standing Here in the Middle of Climate Change’: How USDA Is Failing Farmers – [Politico] 10.15.19
Audit Watchdog Plagued by Internal Strife, Whistleblower Claims – [Wall Street Journal] 10.15.19
Where It All Went Wrong for Facebook’s Libra – [The New York Times]10.15.19
AMC Theater Chain Gets Into Streaming With On-Demand Movies – [The New York Times] 10.15.19
The New Makers of Plant-Based Meat? Big Meat Companies – [The New York Times] 10.15.19
Uber’s Layoff Total Rises Past 1,000 With Latest Cuts – [The New York Times]10.15.19
Democrats Are Striking Back Against Facebook’s Ads Policies – [The Verge]10.15.19
Elizabeth Warren’s Rise Is Battering Health-Care Stocks – [Wall Street Journal] 10.15.19
She Fined Tech Giants Billions of Dollars. Now She Wants Sharper Tools. – [Wall Street Journal] 10.15.19
Amazon Joins Trend of Sending Workers Away for Health Care – [Wall Street Journal] 10.15.19
SoftBank Seeking to Take Control of WeWork Through Financing Package– [Wall Street Journal] 10.15.19
Libra Loses a Quarter of Its Members as Booking Holdings Exits – [Bloomberg] 10.15.19
China Wants More Talks Before Signing Trade Deal With Trump – [Bloomberg] 10.14.19
China Wants More Talks Before Signing Trade Deal With Trump – [Bloomberg] 10.14.19
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Private Meetings With Conservative Pundits – [Politico] 10.14.19
Mike Bloomberg Keeps Talking to Allies About Running for President as Joe Biden Struggles Against Elizabeth Warren – [CNBC] 10.14.19
The Rise and Fall of Andrew Mellon – [The American Prospect] 10.14.19
Bernie Sanders’s Plan to Reshape Corporate America, Explained – [Vox]10.14.19
California’s New Model for Fixing Inequality – [Financial Times] 10.14.19
Economics Nobel for Poverty Work Will Help Restore Profession’s Relevance – [Financial Times] 10.14.19
SoftBank in Talks to Take Control of WeWork Amid Cash Crunch – [Financial Times] 10.14.19
Trump’s Attorney-General Investigates the Investigators – [Financial Times] 10.14.19
Wall Street’s Sky-High Expectations Are About to Collide With Reality – [The New York Times] 10.14.19
Fox News Is Trump’s Chief TV Booster. So Why Is He Griping About It? – [The New York Times] 10.14.19
Boeing’s Board Acted After Months of Mounting Pressure – [The New York Times] 10.14.19
How Deutsche Bank Hired Its Way to the Top in China – [The New York Times]10.14.19
WeWork Has to Pick Its Bailout – [The New York Times] 10.14.19
The Should-Be Solution to the Student-Debt Problem – [The New York Times]10.14.19
Missing From Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 Surge: Democratic Endorsements – [The New York Times]10.14.19
A Brazen Scheme, and a Minor Penalty, for Winning Business in China – [The New York Times] 10.14.19
Is Amazon Unstoppable? – [New Yorker]10.14.19
3 Share Nobel Prize in Economics for ‘Experimental Approach’ to Solving Poverty – [The Washington Post] 10.14.19
Revealed: Google Made Large Contributions to Climate Change Deniers – [The Guardian] 10.13.19
Warren Dares Facebook With Intentionally False Political Ad – [The New York Times] 10.13.19
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past – [The New York Times] 10.13.19
How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice – [The New York Times] 10.11.19
Facebook Is Threatening Our Elections—Again – [Politico] 10.11.19
Don’t Start ‘Wage War’ for Workers, Top Executive Warns, Raising Antitrust Fears – [The Guardian] 10.11.19
Better Data on Modern Finance Reveals Uncomfortable Truths – [Financial Times] 10.11.19
Apple’s Diplomatic Dance on China Is Coming to an End – [Financial Times]10.11.19
WeWork Chases New Financing as Cash Crunch Looms – [Financial Times]10.11.19
Fed Votes to Lighten Regulations for All but the Largest Banks – [The New York Times] 10.11.19
Could Facebook Actually Nuke Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign? – [The New York Times] 10.11.19
Giuliani Pressed for Turkish Prisoner Swap in Oval Office Meeting – [The New York Times] 10.10.19
Two Giuliani Associates Who Helped Him on Ukraine Charged With Campaign-Finance Violations – [Wall Street Journal] 10.10.19
Trump Lashes Out at Fox News Poll as Barr Meets With Murdoch – [The New York Times] 10.10.19
James Murdoch Buys Stake in Vice Media – [Financial Times] 10.10.19
Washington Watches as EU Steps Up Scrutiny of Big Tech – [Financial Times]10.10.19
Google Wins Backing From Two Android Phone Makers in Court Fight– [Bloomberg] 10.10.19
Power Outage in California Affects Millions as PG&E Tries to Avoid Wildfire – [Wall Street Journal] 10.10.19
Amazon Workers May Be Watching Your Cloud Cam Home Footage – [Bloomberg] 10.10.19
What Economists (Including Me) Got Wrong About Globalization – [Bloomberg] 10.10.19
Americans Now Spend Twice As Much on Health Care As They Did in the 1980s – [CNBC] 10.10.19
FTC Policy: Commissioner Phillips Downplays Potential Use of Sherman Act Section 2 to Block Mergers – [The American Prospect] 10.10.19
Trump Adviser Says China Provided Information About Hunter Biden – [Financial Times] 10.10.19
Nike Risks Being Dragged Into China NBA Dispute – [Financial Times] 10.10.19
Tech Giants Shift Profits to Avoid Taxes. There’s a Plan to Stop Them. – [The New York Times] 10.10.19
2,200 Viewed Germany Shooting Before Twitch Removed Post – [The New York Times] 10.10.19
Trump Administration Weighs Economic Escalation Against China – [The New York Times] 10.10.19
The Radical Manifesto Embraced by Google Workers and Uber Drivers – [The New York Times] 10.10.19
Apple Gives Way to Pressure From Beijing – [The New York Times] 10.10.19
Apple Removes App That Tracked Hong Kong Police – [The New York Times] 10.10.19
Trump Urged Top Aide to Help Giuliani Client Facing DOJ Charges – [Bloomberg] 10.09.19
Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost – [The New York Times]10.09.19
From Financial Crisis to Inequality — How Economists Got It Wrong – [Financial Times] 10.09.19
Facebook Denies Biden Campaign’s Request to Remove False Ukraine Ad by Trump Campaign – [CNN] 10.09.19
JPMorgan Gets Back Into the Electricity Business – [The American Prospect] 10.09.19
Monopoly and Its Discontents – [The American Prospect] 10.09.19
Joe Biden’s Family Has Been Cashing in on His Career for Decades. Democrats Need to Acknowledge That.– [The Intercept] 10.09.19
OECD Takes Aim at tech Giants With Plan to Shake Up Global Tax – [Financial Times] 10.09.19
Hunter Biden’s Web of Interests – [Financial Times] 10.09.19
White House Escalates Standoff With Congress, Says It Will Not Cooperate With Impeachment Inquiry of Trump – [The Washington Post] 10.09.19
Trump Says He’s Concerned About Corruption, But Advocates Say His Record Is Weak – [NPR] 10.09.19
The Techlash Is Real, and Silicon Valley Should Be Worried, Says BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith – [Vox] 10.09.19
After Hearthstone Player’s Ban, Blizzard Is in Hot Water With Lawmakers – [The Verge] 10.09.19
China Is a Minefield, and Foreign Firms Keep Hitting New Tripwires – [The New York Times] 10.09.19
Facebook’s Hands-Off Approach to Political Speech Gets Impeachment Test – [The New York Times] 10.09.19
Johnson & Johnson Hit With $8 Billion Jury Verdict in Risperdal Suit – [The New York Times] 10.09.19
By Taking Aim at Chinese Tech Firms, Trump Signals a Strategy Shift – [The New York Times] 10.09.19
A Hard Lesson in Silicon Valley: Profits Matter – [The New York Times]10.09.19
Blizzard Sets Off a Backlash for Penalizing a Hong Kong Gamer – [The New York Times] 10.09.19
Already Under Siege, Labor Unions Face a New Threat From Alaska – [The New York Times] 10.09.19
What Hunter Biden Did Was Legal — And That’s the Problem – [The New York Times] 10.09.19
China Says ‘Stay Tuned’ for Retaliation Over U.S. Tech Blacklist – [Bloomberg] 10.08.19
Elizabeth Warren Suggests, Without Evidence, That Facebook Changed Its Political Ad Rules After Meeting With Trump – [Vox] 10.08.19
The Breakup of Another Industrial Giant Is Coming – [Bloomberg] 10.08.19
America’s Risky Approach to Artificial Intelligence – [The New York Times]10.08.19
PopSugar Acquired by Group Nine Media in Latest Digital Media Deal – [The New York Times] 10.08.19
California Has Banned Political Deepfakes During Election Season – [The Verge] 10.08.19
US Pushes for Western Rival to Huawei – [Financial Times] 10.08.19
Boris Johnson Allies Admit Brexit Deal Hopes Are as Good as Dead – [Financial Times] 10.08.19
G.E. to Freeze Pensions in Bid to Cut Debt by Up to $8 Billion – [The New York Times] 10.08.19
U.S. Using Trade Deals to Shield Tech Giants From Foreign Regulators – [The New York Times] 10.08.19
Rick Perry’s Focus on Gas Company Entangles Him in Ukraine Case – [The New York Times] 10.08.19
Facebook to Pay $40M Under Proposed Settlement in Video Metrics Suit – [The Hollywood Reporter] 10.07.19
The NBA–Hong Kong Controversy Suggests History Isn’t Ending How We’d Planned – [New York] 10.07.19
Stark Lessons From Wall Street’s #MeToo Moment – [The Intercept]10.07.19
Google Suspended Facial Recognition Research for the Pixel 4 Smartphone After Reportedly Targeting Homeless Black People – [Business Insider] 10.07.19
Senators Frustrated by Amazon’s “Evasive” Response to Questions on Driver Safety – [ProPublica] 10.07.19
Trump’s Defiance of Oversight Presents New Challenge to Congress’s Ability to Rein in the Executive Branch– [The Washington Post] 10.07.19
Sanders Says He’d Ban Corporate Money From Democratic Convention, Presidential Inauguration – [Huff Post]10.07.19
Poll: A majority of Democratic and Republican Voters Want Tougher Wall Street Regulations – [Vox] 10.07.19
Trump Faces Crucial Decision on China as Both Economies Strain – [The Washington Post] 10.07.19
Investors Should Fear More Competition Among Ratings Companies – [Wall Street Journal]10.07.19
Federal Judge Tosses Trump Attempt to Block Subpoena for His Tax Returns– [Wall Street Journal] 10.07.19
EU Antitrust Chief Signals Further Clampdown on US Tech – [Financial Times] 10.07.19
Brazil Tells Rich Countries to Pay Up to Protect Amazon – [Financial Times]10.07.19
How Boeing vs. Airbus Became Trump vs. Europe – [The New York Times]10.07.19
Overwhelmed or Ill Informed, 70,000 Wildfire Victims May Get Nothing – [The New York Times] 10.07.19
Why America Needs Whistle-Blowers – [The New York Times] 10.07.19
Trump Ordered to Turn Over 8 Years of Tax Returns to the Manhattan D.A.– [The New York Times] 10.07.19
The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You – [The New York Times] 10.07.19
Silicon Valley and the State Gird for War – [The Economist] 10.06.19
Trump Sees ‘Very Good Chance’ of China Trade Deal, Says No Link to Biden Probe Request – [Reuters] 10.04.19
Trump Promised Xi US Silence on Hong Kong Democracy Protests As Trade Talks Stalled – [CNN] 10.04.19
Warren Announces Almost $25 Million Fundraising Haul, Trailing Sanders But Dwarfing Other Rivals – [NBC News] 10.04.19
Top Universities in US and UK Took Millions From Sackler Family – [The Guardian] 10.04.19
PayPal on the Verge of Quitting Facebook’s Libra Project – [Financial Times] 10.04.19
The Golden Age of Tech Growth May Be Coming to an End – [Financial Times]10.04.19
Trump Targets Medicare for All in Re-Election Campaign – [Wall Street Journal] 10.04.19
Fed Expected to Give Large Banks a Break on Postcrisis Rules – [Wall Street Journal] 10.04.19
Barr Presses Facebook on Encryption, Setting Up Clash Over Privacy – [Wall Street Journal] 10.04.19
CNN Rejects 2 Trump Campaign Ads, Citing Inaccuracies – [The New York Times] 10.04.19
Was WeWork Ever Going to Work? – [The New York Times] 10.04.19
How New Yorkers Plundered the Chicago Taxi Trade – [The New York Times] 10.04.19
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Sympathizes With Bernie Sanders’s Take on Billionaires: ‘No One Deserves to Have That Much Money’ – [CNBC] 10.04.19
Zuckerberg Misunderstands the Huge Threat of TikTok – [TechCrunch] 10.04.19
Publisher Adtech Startups Taboola and Outbrain Merge in $850M Deal to Take on Google and Facebook – [TechCrunch] 10.04.19
US, UK and Australia Urge Facebook to Create Backdoor Access to Encrypted Messages – [The Guardian]10.03.19
How a Politically Powerful Family Muscled a Nonprofit Out of Some of a City’s Most Valuable Land – [ProPublica] 10.03.19
Facebook Says Trump Can Lie in His Facebook Ads – [Popular Information]10.03.19
The American Corporation is in Crisis—Let’s Rethink It – [Boston Review]10.03.19
Private Equity Chases Ambulances – [The American Prospect] 10.03.19
How Elizabeth Warren Would Boost Labor Rights – [Politico] 10.03.19
‘Big Bad Trusts’ Are a Progressive Myth – [Wall Street Journal] 10.03.19
The Sum of Zuckerberg’s Fears – [The New York Times] 10.03.19
Start-ups Battle Big Business to Dominate Digital Payments in India – [Financial Times] 10.03.19
US Shopping Mall Vacancies Hit 8-Year High – [Financial Times] 10.03.19
Warren Just Released the Most Ambitious Labor-Reform Platform of the 2020 Campaign – [Vox] 10.03.19
Short Sellers Pile Into WeWork Debt – [Financial Times] 10.03.19
Hong Kong Takes Symbolic Stand Against China’s High-Tech Controls – [The New York Times] 10.03.19
Jeffrey Epstein Raked In $200 Million After Legal and Financial Crises – [The New York Times] 10.03.19
E.U.’s Top Court Rules Against Facebook in Global Takedown Case – [The New York Times] 10.03.19
US House Panel Taps Defunct Startup for Facebook Files – [Chicago Tribune]10.03.19
Bad News: Facebook Leads in News Consumption Among Social Feeds, but Most Don’t Trust It, Says Pew – [TechCrunch] 10.03.19
Google Using Dubious Tactics to Target People With ‘Darker Skin’ in Facial Recognition Project: Sources – [NY Daily News] 10.03.19
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Tax Corporate Lobbying – [HuffPost]10.03.19
Silicon Valley Billionaires’ Strange New Respect for Elizabeth Warren – [Vox] 10.03.19
Elizabeth Warren Channels the Real New Deal – [Bloomberg] 10.02.19
Boeing 737 Max Safety System Was Vetoed, Engineer Says – [The New York Times] 10.02.19
Amazon Sellers Say Online Retail Giant Is Trying to Help Itself, Not Consumers – [The Washington Post]10.02.19
A Wealth Tax Is Pro-Growth – [The New York Times] 10.02.19
Wall Street Is Starting to Believe Warren May Win Nomination, Putting Health and Bank Stocks at Risk – [CNBC] 10.02.19
The Wild West of Online Political Operatives – [New Yorker] 10.02.19
Ag Secretary: No Guarantee Small Dairy Farms Will Survive – [The Washington Post] 10.02.19
The Seven-Year Auto Loan: America’s Middle Class Can’t Afford Its Cars – [Wall Street Journal] 10.02.19
Tech Forecast to Destroy More Than 200,000 US Bank Jobs – [Financial Times] 10.02.19
Facebook’s Code of Silence Has Been Breached. It’s Amazing It Stayed Intact This Long. – [Vox] 10.02.19
How the Federal Reserve Could Fix the Repo Market – [Financial Times] 10.02.19
Congress and Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It Is Nowhere in Sight. – [The New York Times] 10.02.19
Johnson & Johnson Reaches $20.4 Million Settlement in Bellwether Opioids Case – [The New York Times]10.02.19
It’s Elizabeth Warren vs. Mark Zuckerberg – [The New York Times]10.02.19
How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct – [The New York Times] 10.02.19
As WeWork Slows Down, Biggest Competitor Says It’s Thriving – [The New York Times] 10.02.19
The Online Ad World Is Murky. A Group of Companies Wants to Fix That. – [The New York Times] 10.02.19
Global Trade Is Deteriorating Fast, Sapping the World’s Economy – [The New York Times] 10.02.19
Ahead of Warren-Zuckerberg Spat, Buttigieg Criticized Massachusetts Senator on Big Tech – [Jewish Insider]10.01.19
Silicon Valley Donors Starting to Back Elizabeth Warren Despite Her Pledge to Break Up Big Tech – [CNBC] 10.01.19
‘At What Point Does Malfeasance Become Fraud?’: NYU Biz-School Professor Scott Galloway on WeWork– [New York] 10.01.19
It’s Time to Break Up Disney – [The American Prospect] 10.01.19
Court Upholds Net Neutrality Repeal, With Some Caveats – [The New York Times] 10.01.19
Elizabeth Warren Says Facebook Has ‘Repeatedly Fumbled’ Its Responsibility to Democracy – [The Verge] 10.01.19
Democrats’ Plans to Tax Wealth Would Reshape U.S. Economy – [The New York Times] 10.01.19
In Two Hours of Leaked Audio, Mark Zuckerberg Rallies Facebook Employees Against Critics, Competitors, and the US Government.– [The Verge] 10.01.19
Government Won’t Hold Inquiry Into Hedge Funds Speculating on No-Deal Brexit – [The Guardian] 10.01.19
Top Credit Suisse Executive Resigns After Spying Affair – [Financial Times]10.01.19
Trump’s Claims About Biden Aren’t ‘Unsupported.’ They’re Lies. – [The New York Times] 10.01.19
W.T.O. Forecasts Global Trade Slowdown Amid Uncertainty – [The New York Times] 10.01.19
Me and My Whistle-Blower – [The New York Times] 10.01.19
C.E.O.s Are Not Here to Save Us – [The New York Times] 10.01.19
Sanders Proposes Corporate Tax to Address Pay Gap at Big Companies – [The New York Times] 10.01.19
Warren Versus the Petty Plutocrats – [The New York Times] 10.01.19
With Facebook’s Coming News Tab, Only Some Will Get Paid – [Wall Street Journal] 09.30.19
Google Draws House Antitrust Scrutiny of Internet Protocol – [Wall Street Journal] 09.30.19
Blackstone Snaps Up Colony Capital Warehouses for $5.9 Billion – [Wall Street Journal] 09.30.19
The New Uprising on a Country Road– [The American Prospect] 09.30.19
The Tyranny of Economists – [The New Republic] 09.30.19
The Education of Jerome Powell: How the Fed Chair Is Adapting to Pressure From Wall Street and Trump – [The Washington Post] 09.30.19
Purdue Pharma Family Profits From Sale of Ski Resorts in Regions Plagued by Opioid Addiction – [The Washington Post] 09.30.19
Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K. – [Bloomberg] 09.30.19
Bernie Sanders Wants to Tax Companies That Pay Their CEOs Way More Than Their Workers – [Vox]09.30.19
Democrats Keep Talking Tough on Silicon Valley. This week, They Can’t Stop Taking Money From It. – [Vox]09.30.19
First Project Studying How Facebook Affects Elections Runs Into Privacy Concerns – [Financial Times] 09.30.19
Interview: Mario Draghi Declares Victory in Battle Over the Euro – [Financial Times] 09.30.19
The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong? – [The New York Times] 09.30.19
The New York Fed Chief Is Facing His Biggest Test. Here’s His Response. – [The New York Times] 09.30.19
Ahead of 2020, Facebook Falls Short on Plan to Share Data on Disinformation – [The New York Times]09.30.19
Police Watchdog Is Asked to Review Boris Johnson’s Ties to U.S. Businesswoman – [The New York Times]09.29.19
Hunter Biden’s Perfectly Legal, Socially Acceptable Corruption – [The Atlantic] 09.27.19
I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down. – [The Intercept] 09.27.19
We’re Getting Ripped Off – [Slate]09.27.19
YouTube Is Experimenting With Ways to Make Its Algorithm Even More Addictive – [MIT Technology Review]09.27.19
Trump Meets With LaPierre to Discuss How N.R.A. Could Support Political Defense – [The New York Times] 09.27.19
WeWork Resumes Lease Signings But At Much Slowed Pace – [Financial Times]09.27.19
Yang vs. Warren: Who Has the Better Tax Plan? – [The New York Times]09.27.19
Why I Resigned From the Gates Foundation – [The New York Times]09.27.19
Do We Need a Wealth Tax? – [The New York Times] 09.27.19
Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr? – [The New York Times] 09.27.19
Climate Change Could Cause a New Mortgage Default Crisis – [Financial Times] 09.27.19
Facebook’s Latest Competition? Authoritarian Governments. – [Bloomberg] 09.27.19
Facebook Says Giant Data-Breach Suit Has No Legs to Stand On – [Bloomberg] 09.27.19
Journalists File Lawsuit To Force Feds To Release Medicare Advantage Audits – [NPR] 09.27.19
Trump Administration Considers Ban on Chinese Listings in US – [Financial Times] 09.27.19
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Hire an Army of Berds to Defeat Google’s Lobbyists – [The Verge] 09.27.19
Great News: Wall Street Democrats Might Leave the Party – [The American Prospect] 09.27.19
Force Drug Companies to Lower Prices – [The American Prospect] 09.27.19
Wells Fargo Has a New Chief Executive. His Job Won’t Be Easy. – [The New York Times] 09.27.19
SoftBank Bet Big on Disruptive Companies. Many Have Not Paid Off.– [The New York Times] 09.27.19
Wall Street Deflates America’s Favorite Start-Ups – [The New York Times] 09.27.19
Eugene Scalia Confirmed by Senate as Labor Secretary – [The New York Times]09.26.19
How 2020 Democrats Are Missing the Message on the Economy – [Washington Monthly] 09.26.19
Income Inequality in America Is the Highest It’s Been Since Census Started Tracking It, Data Shows – [The Washington Post] 09.26.19
Exclusive: Texas Signs ex-Microsoft lawyer, Others to Aid in Google Antitrust Probe – [Reuters] 09.26.19
Amazon Dives Headfirst Into the Techlash – [The Atlantic] 09.26.19
Killer Acquisitions Lead to Decreased Innovation and Competition in the U.S. Prescription Drug Market – [Equitable Growth] 09.26.19
Wall Street Democratic Donors Warn the Party: We’ll Sit Out, Or Back Trump, If You Nominate Elizabeth Warren – [CNBC] 09.26.19
Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Laws to Pitch to Lawmakers – [Recode] 09.26.19
A.I. Researchers See Danger of Haves and Have-Nots – [The New York Times]09.26.19
At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds – [The New York Times] 09.26.19
Revealed: How TikTok Censors Videos That Do Not Please Beijing – [The Guardian] 09.26.19
U.S. Supreme Court Not Politicized, Says Chief Justice Roberts – [Reuters]09.26.19
YouTube CEO: Politicians Can Break Our Content Rules – [Politico] 09.26.19
Amazon Tries to Get Alexa Out the House – [Financial Times] 09.25.19
Asia’s Emerging Economies Are Winning US-China Trade War – [Financial Times] 09.25.19
Philip Morris International Ends Merger Talks With Altria – [Financial Times] 09.25.19
Behind WeWork Leader’s Rise and Fall: A Wall St. Bank Playing Many Angles – [The New York Times] 09.25.19
Vox Media Acquires New York Magazine, Chronicler of the Highbrow and Lowbrow – [The New York Times]09.25.19
Red and Blue Voters Live in Different Economies – [The New York Times]09.25.19
Every Part of the Supply Chain Can Be Attacked – [The New York Times] 09.25.19
Google Contractors Vote to Join United Steelworkers Union – [Bloomberg] 09.24.19
Unleash the Existing Anti-Monopoly Arsenal – [The American Prospect]09.24.19
WeWork C.E.O., Adam Neumann, Stepping Down Under Pressure – [The New York Times] 09.24.19
How Economists’ Faith in Markets Broke America – [The Atlantic] 09.24.19
The World’s Wealthiest Families Are Stockpiling Cash as Recession Fears Grow – [Bloomberg] 09.24.19
The Virtuous Corporation Is Not an Oxymoron – [The New York Times]09.24.19
Google Tries Hand at Apple’s New Game – [Wall Street Journal] 09.24.19
When Mac & Cheese and Ketchup Don’t Mix: The Kraft Heinz Merger Falters – [The New York Times] 09.24.19
This Venture Capitalist Is Warning Congress Not to Hurt Startups in Its Antitrust Crusade – [The Washington Post] 09.24.19
Bernie Sanders Proposes a Wealth Tax, Taking Aim at Billionaires – [The New York Times] 09.24.19
Tech Workers Have Been Reluctant to Unionize but Google Contractors May Change That – [Recode] 09.24.19
Bernie Sanders’s Wealth Tax Proposal, Explained – [Vox] 09.24.19
Silicon Valley Bankers and Lawyers Push for Alternative to IPOs – [Financial Times] 09.24.19
SoftBank Executives Balk at Big Loans to Invest in Vision Fund – [Financial Times] 09.24.19
WeWork Turmoil Puts Spotlight on JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs– [Financial Times] 09.24.19
Top EU Court Backs Google in ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Case – [Financial Times]09.24.19
Jaron Lanier Fixes the Internet – [The New York Times] 09.24.19
The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World – [The New York Times] 09.24.19
Autoworkers Face a Tough Road Ahead – [The New York Times] 09.24.19
Europe’s Top Court Limits ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Privacy Rule – [The New York Times] 09.24.19
U.S.-Japan Trade Deal May Be Delayed Over Car Tariffs – [The New York Times] 09.24.19
Democrats Want to Tax the Rich. Here’s How Those Plans Would Work (or Not). – [The New York Times] 09.24.19
Facebook Buying CTRL-labs, a Start-Up Looking to Guide Computers With Brain Signals – [The New York Times]09.24.19
Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Assembled in Texas After Tariff Waiver – [Bloomberg] 09.23.19
The Medical Community Has Been Complicit in Opioids and Vaping – [Bloomberg] 09.23.19
National Health Insurance Might Be Good for Capitalism – [Bloomberg]09.23.19
Overhaul the Business of Wall Street – [The American Prospect] 09.23.19
Major Cable Companies Compile More Granular Data to Fuel Targeted Ads – [Wall Street Journal] 09.23.19
Trial Approaching in California Hospital Antitrust Case – [Associated Press] 09.23.19
China Moves to Increase Oversight of Tech Companies – [Wall Street Journal]09.23.19
How Facebook’s Libra Fuelled Push for Central Bank-Run Digital Currencies – [Financial Times] 09.23.19
Court Deals Blow to Pai Dereg – [Broadcasting & Cable] 09.23.19
Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier – [Wall Street Journal] 09.23.19
Google Is Reducing How Much Audio It Saves for Human Review – [The Verge] 09.23.19
Organized Labor Is Back – [Financial Times] 09.23.19
Rivals Rubbish Google’s Claim of Quantum Supremacy – [Financial Times]09.23.19
The Limits of the Pursuit of Profit – [Financial Times] 09.23.19
SoftBank Moves to Oust Neumann as WeWork Chief Executive – [Financial Times] 09.23.19
WeWork C.E.O.’s Ouster Is Weighed in Bid to Salvage I.P.O. – [The New York Times] 09.23.19
China’s Big Brother Targets Business – [The New York Times] 09.23.19
The Week in Tech: An Emerging Twist on Antitrust – [The New York Times]09.21.19
Former Biden Chief of Staff is Fox News’ Top Lobbyist – [The American Prospect] 09.20.19
Zuckerberg’s D.C. Charm Tour – [Axios]09.20.19
How Chicago Tackled the Opioid Crisis – [Wall Street Journal] 09.20.19
Suddenly Facebook’s Libra Is All About Defending “the Free World” From China – [Financial Times] 09.20.19
Elizabeth Warren Has Just One Plan – [Vox] 09.20.19
Google Touts ‘Biggest Ever’ Wind and Solar Deals – [Financial Times] 09.20.19
Stephen Schwarzman: ‘I Like to Do Things That Are Beautiful’ – [Financial Times] 09.20.19
Purdue Pharma Warns That Sackler Family May Walk From Opioid Deal – [The New York Times] 09.20.19
Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies – [The New York Times]09.20.19
Bezos and Zuckerberg Take Their Pitches to Washington – [The New York Times] 09.20.19
Uber and Lyft Drivers Gain Labor Clout, With Help From an App – [The New York Times] 09.20.19
Roy Cohn Is How We Got Trump – [The New York Times] 09.20.19
Something Is Seriously Awry in the World of Work – [Financial Times]09.19.19
Aspirin-by-Drone Closer in Alphabet-Walgreens Delivery Test – [Bloomberg]09.19.19
Bezos’s Big Van Order Signals Amazon-Backed Rivian Is ‘For Real’ – [Bloomberg] 09.19.19
When Big Business Won’t Let the Troops Repair Their Equipment – [The American Prospect] 09.19.19
Bernie Sanders Proposes Reparations—for Defrauded Homeowners – [The American Prospect] 09.19.19
The Virtues and Vices of Econ 101 – [Bloomberg] 09.19.19
Jeff Bezos Becomes the First CEO to Break His Pledge to Dump the ‘Shareholder Value’ Model – [Los Angeles Times] 09.19.19
Jeffrey Epstein Infiltrated Science Because It Was Ready to Accommodate Him – [The Verge] 09.19.19
Trump HUD Appointee’s Twitter ‘Likes’ Violated Federal Law. She Will Not be Punished. – [The Washington Post]09.19.19
Americans Agree on One Thing. Unions Matter. – [The Washington Post]09.19.19
Why Prescription Drugs Cost So Much More in America – [Financial Times]09.19.19
Microsoft’s President on Silicon Valley in the Cross Hairs – [The New York Times] 09.19.19
Profits or the Public Interest: The Debate Continues – [The New York Times]09.19.19
Sterilized Workers Seek to Collect Damages Against Dow Chemical in France – [The New York Times] 09.19.19
Consumer Bureau’s Complaints Database Is ‘Here to Stay,’ Director Says – [The New York Times] 09.19.19
Barack Obama’s Biggest Mistake – [The New York Times] 09.18.19
Poll: Two-thirds of Americans Want to Break Up Companies Like Amazon and Google – [Vox] 09.18.19
Facebook to Name First Oversight Panel Members by Year-End – [Associated Press] 09.18.19
Facebook Announces Video Streaming Device Portal TV – [Financial Times]09.18.19
Martin Wolf: Why Rigged Capitalism Is Damaging Liberal Democracy – [Financial Times] 09.18.19
G.M. Chief’s Test: Satisfy Striking Workers and Sustain Bottom Line – [The New York Times] 09.18.19
Facebook Has a ‘Supreme Court’ Now– [The New York Times] 09.18.19
Lawmakers Urge Aggressive Action From Regulators on Big Tech – [The New York Times] 09.17.19
Silicon Valley Donors Continue to Elude Trump – [Wall Street Journal]09.17.19
Facebook Will Soon Announce the First Members of Its Oversight Board – [CNN] 09.17.19
The State of U.S. Federal Antitrust Enforcement – [Equitable Growth]09.17.19
Congress Is Getting Ready to Grill Top DOJ and FTC Officials About Being Too Lenient on Big Tech – [CNBC]09.17.19
Unionizing Workers Just Accused Kickstarter of Retaliatory Firings in a Federal Complaint – [Slate] 09.17.19
The Tech Backlash Is Real, and It’s Accelerating – [The Verge] 09.17.19
Amazon Studios, Once the Anti-Netflix, Appears to be Turning Into It – [The Washington Post] 09.17.19
Trump Says He Reached Interim Trade Deal With Japan, but Details Remain Scarce – [The Washington Post]09.17.19
Walmart Likely Discriminated Against Female Store Workers, EEOC Finds – [Wall Street Journal] 09.17.19
Amazon Offers Millions of Songs in High-Quality Audio. Even Neil Young Approves. – [The New York Times] 09.17.19
G.M. Workers Say They Sacrificed, and Now They Want Their Due – [The New York Times] 09.17.19
WeWork Delays I.P.O. After Chilly Reception From Investors – [The New York Times] 09.17.19
Equifax Doesn’t Want You to Get Your $125. Here’s What You Can Do. – [The New York Times] 09.17.19
Would a Purdue Bankruptcy Protect the Sacklers? Good Question. – [The New York Times] 09.17.19
A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World – [The New York Times] 09.17.19
Revealed: Catastrophic Effects of Working As a Facebook Moderator – [The Guardian] 09.17.19
“Corruption Is Breaking Our Democracy”: Elizabeth Warren’s Case for the White House – [Vox] 09.16.19
Elaine Chao Investigated by House Panel for Possible Conflicts – [The New York Times] 09.16.19
Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products – [Wall Street Journal] 09.16.19
Elizabeth Warren Releases Sweeping Anti-Corruption Plan – [HuffPost]09.16.19
Elizabeth Warren Pushes Further Restrictions on Lobbyists – [Wall Street Journal] 09.16.19
Big Beer’s Illusory Appeal – [The American Conservative] 09.16.19
Apple Takes on EU’s Vestager in Record $14 Billion Tax Fight – [Bloomberg] 09.16.19
Drug Dealers Are Peddling Steroids on Facebook and YouTube – [The Washington Post] 09.16.19
Chris Johns: Tech Monopolies Are Getting Away With Financial Murder– [Irish Times] 09.16.19
Big Tech Is About to Spend a Ton of Money to Fight These People – [Washingtonian] 09.16.19
Chicago School Professor Fights ‘Chicago School’ Beliefs That Abet Big Tech – [The New York Times] 09.16.19
Britain Facing Most Prolonged Investment Slump in 17 Years – [The Guardian] 09.16.19
Trump’s Wall Street Rule Rollback Raises ‘Too Big to Fail’ Alarms – [The Washington Post] 09.16.19
Top Democrat Attempts to Block Trump From Paying Farm Bailout Money, Setting up Battle Over Trade War Tactics – [The Washington Post]09.16.19
Senators Urge F.C.C. to Review Licenses of 2 Chinese Telecom Companies – [The New York Times]09.16.19
Purdue Pharma, Maker of OxyContin, Files for Bankruptcy – [The New York Times] 09.16.19
Autoworkers’ Union Goes on Strike Against G.M. – [The New York Times]09.16.19
Who’s Funding the Controversial Anti-AOC Political Ad? – [OpenSecrets.Org]09.15.19
Takedown by Elliott’s Paul Singer of AT&T Is on the Money – [Financial Times] 09.15.19
A Harvard Professor Doubles Down: If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret – [The New York Times] 09.15.19
Opioid Defendants Seek to Disqualify Judge Overseeing 2,300 Cases – [The New York Times] 09.15.19
Autoworkers Union Calls for Strike Against G.M. – [The New York Times]09.15.19
New York Uncovers $1 Billion in Sackler Family Wire Transfers – [The New York Times] 09.14.19
Amazon Starts Crowdsourcing Alexa Responses From the Public. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – [The Washington Post] 09.13.19
Meet the Oligarchs Funding Campaign to Kill Anti-Poverty Programs – [The American Prospect]09.13.19
What We Learned From the Biden-Sanders-Warren Debate Fight Over Medicare-for-All – [Vox] 09.13.19
New Lawsuit Against Uber Is Set to Test Its Classification of Workers – [The New York Times] 09.13.19
House Antitrust Panel Seeks Documents From 4 Big Tech Firms – [The New York Times] 09.13.19
WeWork Moves to Limit the Power of Its C.E.O. – [The New York Times] 09.13.19
Sinclair-Owned ABC Affiliate Airs Ad With Burning Photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez During Democratic Debate – [The Wrap] 09.13.19
Sanders or Warren: Who Gets More Support From Working-Class Donors?– [OpenSecrets.org] 09.12.19
We’re Living in an Era of Digital Feudalism. Here’s How to Take Your Data and Identity Back – [Quartz]09.12.19
Reid Hoffman Apologizes for Role in Epstein-Linked Donations to MIT – [Axios] 09.12.19
Warren Plan Would Close Tax Loophole Joe Biden Uses – [The American Prospect] 09.12.19
Amazon Probed by U.S. Antitrust Officials Over Marketplace – [Bloomberg] 09.12.19
Koch Group Launches Ads Defending Silicon Valley Against State AG Probes– [Politico] 09.12.19
Progressive Antitrust Paradox – [Wall Street Journal] 09.12.19
Burglars Are Following You on Facebook – [Wall Street Journal] 09.12.19
Government Orders Google: Let Employees Speak Out – [Wall Street Journal] 09.12.19
The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For– [The Atlantic] 09.12.19
The Private Option – [The Atlantic]09.12.19
Is Populism Here to Stay? – [Financial Times] 09.12.19
Trump Administration to Finalize Rollback of Clean Water Protections – [The New York Times] 09.12.19
Beto O’Rourke Urges Banks to Cut Services for Gun Sales – [The New York Times] 09.12.19
‘Simply Unacceptable’: 145 Executives Demand Senate Action on Gun Violence – [The New York Times] 09.12.19
You Call It the Gig Economy. California Calls It ‘Feudalism.’ – [The New York Times] 09.12.19
Elizabeth Warren’s Plan for Social Security Looks Smart – [The New York Times] 09.12.19
Uber Argues Its Drivers Aren’t Core to Its Business, Won’t Reclassify Them As Employees – [The Verge] 09.11.19
Confusion and Defiance Follow California’s New Contractor Law – [The New York Times] 09.11.19
Purdue Pharma Settles Opioids Case – [The New York Times] 09.11.19
California Just Passed a Landmark Law to Regulate Uber and Lyft – [Vox]09.11.19
The Myth of a Unified World Populism– [Financial Times] 09.11.19
Hong Kong Exchange Proposes to Buy LSE for £32bn – [Financial Times]09.11.19
China Suspends Import Tariffs on Some US Goods – [Financial Times]09.11.19
Share of Americans With Health Insurance Declined in 2018 – [The New York Times] 09.11.19
Trump Calls for Fed’s ‘Boneheads’ to Slash Interest Rates Below Zero – [The New York Times] 09.11.19
California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees – [The New York Times]09.11.19
E.U.’s New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big Tech on the Planet’ – [The New York Times] 09.11.19
The Necessary Radicalism of Bernie Sanders – [The New York Times] 09.11.19
Momentum Grows for a Digital Watchdog to Regulate Tech Giants – [Bloomberg] 09.11.19
Meet the Oligarchs Funding Campaign to Kill Anti-Poverty Programs – [Sludge] 09.10.19
Trump Moves to Send Mortgage Giants Back to Private Sector – [The New York Times] 09.10.19
In an Age of Policy Boldness, Think Tanks Have Become Timid – [The Nation] 09.10.19
Poor and Middle-Class Americans Are Much Less Likely to Survive Into Their 70s Than the Wealthy, Federal Report Says – [The Washington Post] 09.10.19
These Apps May Have Told Facebook About the Last Time You Had Sex – [The Washington Post] 09.10.19
Amazon’s New Multistory Warehouse Aims to Cut Delivery Times – [Wall Street Journal] 09.10.19
Mnuchin, Top Administration Officials to Testify on Fannie and Freddie Overhaul Effort – [Wall Street Journal]09.10.19
Margrethe Vestager Holds on to EU’s Top Competition Role – [Financial Times]09.10.19
California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and Lyft – [The New York Times] 09.10.19
Google Antitrust Investigation Outlined by State Attorneys General – [The New York Times] 09.09.19
A Hedge Fund Becomes a Very Noisy Stakeholder in AT&T – [The New York Times] 09.09.19
The Epstein Scandal at MIT Shows the Moral Bankruptcy of Techno-Elites – [The Guardian] 09.09.19
The Great Breakup of Big Tech Is Finally Beginning – [The Guardian]09.09.19
The Government vs. Big Tech: Arguments Each Side Could Make – [Wall Street Journal] 09.09.19
Eurofi: Inside the Think-Tank at the Heart of the EU – [Financial Times]09.09.19
How Each Big Tech Company May Be Targeted by Regulators – [The New York Times] 09.09.19
Amazon’s Effort to Recruit 30,000 Workers Collides With Saturated Job Market – [The New York Times] 09.09.19
He Who Must Not Be Tolerated – [The New York Times] 09.09.19
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epstein – [The New York Times] 09.09.19
‘We’re at War’: A Covert Social Media Campaign Boosts Military Rulers – [The New York Times] 09.09.19
Google Is Banning Ads for Quack Cures After Years of Profiting From Them – [MIT Technology Review] 09.07.19
A Cruel Parody of Antitrust Enforcement – [The New York Times]09.07.19
Justice Department Launches Antitrust Probe Into Four Auto Makers – [Wall Street Journal] 09.06.19
Walmart Dodged Up to $2.6 Billion in US Tax Through a “Fictitious” Chinese Entity, Former Executive Says – [Quartz] 09.06.19
New York Announces Antitrust Investigation Into Facebook, Kicking Off Multistate Effort – [The Washington Post] 09.06.19
Former Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz Announces He Will Not Run for President – [The Washington Post] 09.06.19
Walmart’s Gun Decision Is Less Political Than It Looks – [New York]09.06.19
US States to Launch Antitrust and Privacy Inquiries Into Facebook and Google – [The Guardian] 09.06.19
Facebook Faces Antitrust Investigation by State Attorneys General – [The New York Times] 09.06.19
Trump Administration Unveils Plan to Revamp the Housing Market – [The Washington Post] 09.06.19
Jeffrey Epstein’s Donations Create a Schism at M.I.T.’s Revered Media Lab– [The New York Times] 09.06.19
Don’t Trust Facebook With Your Love Life – [The New York Times] 09.06.19
Trumpism Is Bad for Business – [The New York Times] 09.06.19
Academics Craft a Plan to Infuse Billions Into Journalism: Give Every American $50 to Donate to News Orgs– [Poynter] 09.05.19
Facebook Boosts New Dating App With Instagram Integration – [Bloomberg] 09.05.19
Google Gets the FTC to Censor Its Own Commissioner – [The American Prospect]09.05.19
Can Uber Be Tamed? – [The New York Times] 09.05.19
Target Tells Its Suppliers to Handle Tariffs Costs – [Wall Street Journal]09.05.19
The Google Syndrome – [Wall Street Journal] 09.05.19
Trump Said He’d Rebuild Manufacturing. Now It’s in Decline. What Happened? – [The Washington Post] 09.05.19
A Huge Database of Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Found Online – [TechCrunch] 09.05.19
J&J: The Next Target of Anger Over America’s Opioid Crisis? – [Financial Times] 09.05.19
YouTube’s FTC Settlement Won’t End Its Problems With Regulators – [The Verge] 09.05.19
Is U.S. Ready to Rein in Big Tech? – [The New York Times] 09.05.19
CVS-Aetna Merger Wins Antitrust Approval From Judge – [The New York Times] 09.05.19
The Human Cost of Amazon’s Fast, Free Shipping – [The New York Times]09.05.19
U.S.-China Trade Talks to Resume, but New Tariffs Could Complicate Them – [The New York Times] 09.05.19
Big Tech Companies Meeting With U.S. Officials on 2020 Election Security – [The New York Times] 09.05.19
What France—Yes, France—Can Teach the U.S. About Free Markets – [Wall Street Journal] 09.04.19
After Climate Forum, Biden Heads to a Fundraiser Co-Hosted by a Fossil Fuel Executive – [The Intercept] 09.04.19
Labour Takes Aim at Shareholder Capitalism – [Financial Times] 09.04.19
Why Companies Reject Trump’s Deregulation Theology – [Bloomberg]09.04.19
California Adopted the Country’s First Major Consumer Privacy Law. Now, Silicon Valley Is Trying to Rewrite It. – [The Washington Post] 09.04.19
Google Emerges As Target of a New State Attorneys General Antitrust Probe – [The Washington Post] 09.04.19
Google’s Paid Search Ads Are a ‘Shakedown,’ Basecamp CEO Says – [CNBC] 09.04.19
Google Accused of Secretly Feeding Personal Data to Advertisers – [Financial Times] 09.04.19
Kaiser Hospital Workers Mobilize for Largest Strike in Two Decades – [The American Prospect] 09.04.19
Walmart’s C.E.O. Steps Into the Gun Debate. Other C.E.O.s Should Follow. – [The New York Times] 09.04.19
F.T.C. Fines Google $170 Million for Violating Children’s Privacy on YouTube – [The New York Times] 09.04.19
Not All Economists Are Corporate Shills – [Bloomberg] 09.03.19
Big Telecom’s Sweet Summer of Revenge – [Axios] 09.03.19
A Reexamination of Ownership in the Age of the Public Corporation – [The Washington Post] 09.03.19
Why Has Trump’s Exceptional Corruption Gone Unchecked? – [The New York Times] 09.03.19
The Great Tax Break Heist – [The New York Times] 09.03.19
Can Anyone Hold the Global Economy Together? – [The New York Times]09.03.19
That Beloved Hospital? It’s Driving Up Health Care Costs – [The New York Times] 09.03.19
Why Some Labor Unions Are Holding Back on 2020 Endorsements – [The New York Times] 09.03.19
As Grass-Roots Labor Activism Rises, Will Unions Take Advantage? – [The New York Times] 09.03.19
The World’s First Ambassador to the Tech Industry – [The New York Times]09.03.19
Uber and Lyft Are Facing an Existential Threat in California – and They’re Losing – [The Verge] 09.03.19
Trump Wants to Cut Taxes for Rich People Yet Again – [Vox] 09.01.19
The Federalist Society Says It’s Not an Advocacy Organization. We Found Documents Showing Otherwise. – [Politico] 08.31.19
Uber and Lyft Are Floating a $21 Minimum Wage. Critics Say It’s Closer to $15. – [The Washington Post] 08.30.19
YouTube Reportedly Settles With FTC Over Children’s Privacy Violation – [Axios] 08.30.19
Citizens United Ruling May Be Lawmaker’s Bribery Trial Lifeline – [BloombergLaw] 08.30.19
To Take on Big Tech, US Can Learn Antitrust Lessons From Europe – [Politico] 08.30.19
Inside the Media Industry’s Struggle to Take on Silicon Valley – [Politico]08.30.19
Parts of America May Already be Facing Recession – [The Economist]08.30.19
Trump’s Methane Rule Rollback Divides Oil and Gas Industry – [The New York Times] 08.30.19
Reviving the American Working Class– [The New York Times] 08.30.19
Longtime Lobbyist and Former Congressman Vin Weber Resigns From Consulting Firm – [The Washington Post] 08.30.19
The Worker’s Friend? Here’s How Trump Has Waged His War on Workers – [The American Prospect]08.30.19
Proposed Opioid Deal With Purdue Drawing Pushback From States – [Wall Street Journal] 08.30.19
Lessons for Capitalism From the East India Company – [Financial Times]08.30.19
Google Unearths 2-Year-Long iPhone Spyware Attack – [Financial Times]08.30.19
Argentina Is in Default, Says Standard & Poor’s – [Financial Times]08.30.19
Uber, Lyft and DoorDash Pledge $90 Million to Fight Driver Legislation in California – [The New York Times]08.30.19
The Frauding of America’s Farmers – [The New York Times] 08.30.19
The Catch-22 for Labor Unions Enjoying Newfound Public Support – [Vox] 08.29.19
Facebook ‘Has to Do a Lot Better Than This,’ Say Senators – [The Verge]08.29.19
China Studying Tech Companies’ Exposure to U.S. Suppliers – [Wall Street Journal] 08.29.19
How Columbia’s New Dean Aims to Redefine Business Education – [Financial Times] 08.29.19
He Ran an Empire of Soap and Mayonnaise. Now He Wants to Reinvent Capitalism. – [Wall Street Journal] 08.29.19
He Ran an Empire of Soap and Mayonnaise. Now He Wants to Reinvent Capitalism. – [The New York Times] 08.29.19
Samsung’s Leader at Risk of More Prison Time After Court Rules Against Him – [The New York Times] 08.29.19
Punish Pharma, Not Patients – [The New York Times] 08.29.19
E.P.A. to Roll Back Regulations on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas – [The New York Times] 08.29.19
A Conservative Senator’s Crusade Against Big Tech – [The Washington Post]08.28.19
Researchers Studying Facebook’s Impact on Democracy Threaten to Quit – [Reuters] 08.28.19
Apple Ends Contracts for Hundreds of Workers Hired to Listen to Siri – [The Guardian] 08.28.19
Facebook Given Deadline to Share Data for Research – [Financial Times]08.28.19
Amazon and Microsoft Unchallenged in $10bn ‘Jedi’ Contract Review – [Financial Times] 08.28.19
Outlook for US Corporate Profits Dims As Trade War Bites – [Financial Times]08.28.19
Investor Reaction Puts $200bn Philip Morris-Altria Merger in Doubt – [Financial Times] 08.28.19
Facebook Tightens Rules on Verifying Political Advertisers – [The New York Times] 08.28.19
Can Two Tobacco Giants Save Themselves by Merging? – [The New York Times] 08.28.19
Sacklers Would Give Up Ownership of Purdue Pharma Under Settlement Proposal – [The New York Times] 08.28.19
Philip Morris and Altria Are in Talks to Merge – [The New York Times] 08.28.19
Deutsche Bank Tells Court It Has Some Tax Returns Related to Trump Inquiry – [The New York Times] 08.28.19
Trump Has Publicly Name-Dropped His Properties At Least 70 Times As President – [The Washington Post]08.27.19
Barr Books Trump’s Hotel for $30,000 Holiday Party – [The Washington Post] 08.27.19
Purdue Pharma Offers $10-12 Billion to Settle Opioid Claims – [NBC News]08.27.19
Watch Richard Sackler Deny His Family’s Role in the Opioid Crisis – [ProPublica] 08.27.19
Insiders Are Selling Stock Like It’s 2007 – [CNN] 08.27.19
Steve Schwarzman, a Top Financier of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, Is a Driving Force Behind Amazon Deforestation – [The Intercept] 08.27.19
Google Warns Against Blocking ‘Cookies’ Entirely, Triggering Criticism – [Wall Street Journal] 08.27.19
Big Tech Shares Lose Their Luster – [Wall Street Journal] 08.27.19
Investor’s Ties to WeWork Raise Conflict-of-Interest Concerns – [Wall Street Journal] 08.27.19
Farmers’ Frustration With Trump Grows as U.S. Escalates China Fight – [The New York Times] 08.27.19
SEC Chief’s Crypto Skepticism Sets Up Facebook Clash Over Libra – [Bloomberg] 08.27.19
How ‘Medicare for All’ Went Mainstream – [The New York Times]08.27.19
Alexa, Who Is Baidu? Chinese Firm Passes Google to Become Amazon’s Top Smart-Speaker Rival – [The Washington Post] 08.27.19
Why Are George Soros and Charles Koch Collaborating on a U.S.-Bashing Think Tank? – [The Washington Post]08.27.19
What It Means to Work at Google When You Can No Longer Say Anything You Want – [Slate] 08.27.19
The Right Way to Regulate Big Tech – [National Review] 08.27.19
‘We Must Do It’: Deutsche Bank Allegedly Hired Children of Russian, Chinese Officials to Win Work – [The Washington Post] 08.27.19
Trump’s Grifting Mocks the Rule of Law – [Bloomberg] 08.27.19
Big Brands Turn to Big Data to Rekindle Growth – [Financial Times]08.27.19
Jair Bolsonaro Set to Reject G7 Amazon Aid Package – [Financial Times]08.27.19
Trump Can Battle China or Expand the Economy. He Can’t Do Both. – [The New York Times] 08.27.19
U.S. Appeals Court Freezes Antitrust Ruling Against Qualcomm – [Wall Street Journal] 08.26.19
$572 Million Decision Against Johnson & Johnson in Landmark Opioid Trial – [The New York Times]08.26.19
David Koch’s Most Significant Legacy Is the Election of Donald Trump – [The Intercept] 08.26.19
Johnson & Johnson Responsible for Fueling Opioid Crisis in Oklahoma, Judge Rules – [The Guardian] 08.26.19
Ending the BigLaw Racket: A Conversation With Brian Fallon – [The American Prospect] 08.26.19
Macron Says Deal Struck With U.S. on Taxing Tech Giants – [The New York Times] 08.26.19
A Lobbyist Gave $900,000 in Donations. Whose Money Is It? – [The New York Times] 08.26.19
The Education of Elizabeth Warren – [The New York Times] 08.26.19
Why Central Bankers’ Conventional Tools Are No Longer Working – [The Guardian] 08.26.19
GOP Lobbyists Help Brazil Recruit U.S. Companies to Exploit the Amazon– [The Intercept] 08.26.19
Amgen to Buy Celgene’s Otezla for $13.4 Billion in Cash – [Wall Street Journal] 08.26.19
Big Tech May Be Losing Its Allure for Talented Staff – [Financial Times]08.26.19
How Amazon Abused Its Precious Store of Staff Loyalty – [Financial Times]08.26.19
Brazilian Businesses Fear Backlash Over Amazon Crisis – [Financial Times]08.26.19
Donald Trump Says China Is Seeking Talks to End Trade Conflict – [Financial Times] 08.26.19
The $6 Million Drug Claim – [The New York Times] 08.26.19
Business Groups Warn of Peril as Trump’s Trade War Spirals – [The New York Times] 08.26.19
The American Economy Is Creating a National Identity Crisis – [The New York Times] 08.26.19
Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products – [Wall Street Journal] 08.25.19
The Dialysis Duopoly Spends $100 Million to Protect Profits in California– [The American Prospect] 08.25.19
Trump Says He Will Raise Existing Tariffs on Chinese Goods to 30% – [The New York Times] 08.23.19
David Koch Is Gone, But His Pipelines Are Here to Stay – [The New Republic]08.23.19
David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79 – [The New York Times] 08.23.19
China Threatens New Tariffs if Trump Escalates Trade War – [The New York Times] 08.23.19
Big Business Is Beginning to Accept Broader Social Responsibilities – [The Economist] 08.23.19
Federal Officials Raise Concerns About White House Plan to Police Alleged Social Media Censorship – [CNN] 08.22.19
How Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech – [The New Yorker] 08.22.19
T-Mobile ‘Put My Life in Danger’ Says Woman Stalked With Black Market Location Data – [Vice] 08.22.19
Hedge Fund Cash Flows to Presidential Candidates—at Puerto Rico’s Expense – [The American Prospect]08.22.19
How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon – [ProPublica]08.22.19
Physical Stores Fight Amazon With Tech Makeover – [Financial Times]08.22.19
Co-Founder of Google’s AI Unit DeepMind Goes on Leave – [Financial Times] 08.22.19
Amazon Seeks New Local Vendors in Israel as It Eyes Expansion – [Wall Street Journal] 08.22.19
Facebook’s Libra Bets It Can Bank the Unbanked – [Wall Street Journal] 08.22.19
Social Responsibility Won’t Save Corporate America – [The Washington Post] 08.22.19
The 5-Step CEO Pay Scam – [The American Prospect] 08.22.19
Many Are Abandoning Facebook. These People Have the Opposite Problem. – [The New York Times] 08.22.19
Hi, Alexa. How Do I Stop You From Listening In On Me? – [The New York Times] 08.22.19
In the Trump Era, a Family’s Fight With Google and Facebook Over Disinformation – [The New York Times]08.22.19
C.E.O.s Should Fear a Recession. It Could Mean Revolution. – [The New York Times] 08.22.19
How Should Big Tech Be Reined In? Here Are 4 Prominent Ideas – [The New York Times] 08.21.19
Don’t Trust CEOs Who Say They Don’t Care About Shareholder Value Anymore – [The Washington Post] 08.21.19
Facebook’s Libra Currency Investigated by EU Antitrust Regulators – [Financial Times] 08.21.19
Trump Says He Has Authority to Reduce Capital Gains Taxes – [The New York Times] 08.21.19
Trump Says He’s Exploring ‘Various Tax Reductions,’ and the Economic Data He Loves Shows Why – [The New York Times] 08.21.19
N.R.A. Gets Results on Gun Laws in One Phone Call With the President – [The New York Times] 08.21.19
Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ Tool Arrives With Ambiguous Data Privacy Controls – [The Washington Post] 08.20.19
Policy Makers Should Take a Look at Private Equity – [Bloomberg] 08.20.19
Facebook Break-Up Would Be Hard, Says FTC Chief – [Financial Times]08.20.19
Who Is Next in Big Pharma’s Merger Spree? – [Reuters] 08.20.19
In New Facebook Effort, Humans Will Help Curate Your News Stories – [The New York Times] 08.20.19
Facebook Users to See, Control Personal Data Taken From Other Websites – [Reuters] 08.20.19
Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon – [Financial Times]08.20.19
How Shareholder Democracy Failed the People – [The New York Times]08.20.19
Trump’s Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules Shows Signs of Disarray – [The New York Times] 08.20.19
States to Move Forward With Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms – [Wall Street Journal] 08.20.19
Some Friendly Chats Between Big Tech and Its Regulators – [The American Prospect] 08.20.19
The Curious Transformation of Mike Lee – [Google Transparency Project]08.20.19
America’s CEOs Seek a New Purpose for the Corporation – [Fortune] 08.20.19
US Regulator Pulls Disputed Public Statements From Its Website – [Financial Times] 08.19.19
Viacom and CBS Executives to Earn Big Bucks in Merger Deal – [Wall Street Journal] 08.19.19
After Lobbying by Gun Rights Advocates, Trump Sounds a Familiar Retreat – [The New York Times] 08.19.19
GE Issues New Rebuttal to Whistleblower’s Claims About Finances – [Reuters] 08.19.19
Exclusive: Fearing Data Privacy Issues, Google Cuts Some Android Phone Data for Wireless Carriers – [Reuters] 08.19.19
Group of US Corporate Leaders Ditches Shareholder-First Mantra – [Financial Times] 08.19.19
Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite – [The New York Times] 08.19.19
In Economic Warning Signals, Trump Sees Signs of a Conspiracy – [The New York Times] 08.19.19
Shareholder Value Is No Longer Everything, Top C.E.O.s Say – [The New York Times] 08.19.19
WhatsApp Is Radicalizing The Right In Bolsonaro’s Brazil – [Huff Post]08.16.19
Harry Twitter Invested Amazon’s Creepy Twitter PR Army is Growing – [Vice] 08.16.19
Harry Twitter Invested In A Social Network Accused Of Spreading Misinformation And Hate Speech – [BuzzFeed] 08.16.19
Harry Markopolos: the Scourge of Madoff Trains His Sights on GE – [Financial Times] 08.16.19
Mars, Nestle, Other Food Companies Face Complaints of Forced Labor at Palm Oil Supplier – [The Washington Post] 08.16.19
General Electric CEO Buys $2 Million in Stock After Fraud Allegations From Madoff whistleblower – [The Washington Post] 08.16.19
Facebook Isn’t Ready for 2020 – [The Washington Post] 08.16.19
In Order to Understand the Brutality of American Capitalism, You Have to Start on the Plantation. – [The New York Times] 08.16.19
Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’ – [Vice] 08.16.19
U.S. Antitrust Unit Seeks Additional Information From United Tech, Raytheon – [Reuters] 08.16.19
A Secret Opioid Memo That Could Have Slowed an Epidemic – [The New York Times] 08.16.19
Cathay Pacific C.E.O. Quits as China’s Power Looms Over Hong Kong Protests – [The New York Times] 08.16.19
Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount – [The New York Times] 08.16.19
The Great Western Public Land Robbery – [The New York Times] 08.16.19
Elizabeth Warren Took On Obama Over Student Debt Forgiveness. How She Won Is Central To Her 2020 Campaign – [BuzzFeed] 08.15.19
Donor With Deep Ukraine Ties Lent $500,000 to Biden’s Brother – [Politico]08.15.19
GE Is New Target of Madoff Whistleblower – [Wall Street Journal]08.15.19
Advertisers Blacklist Hard News, Including Trump, Fearing Backlash – [Wall Street Journal] 08.15.19
The Truth About Koch Industries – [The New York Times] 08.15.19
New York Subpoenas Banks, Financial Advisers for Sackler Records – [The New York Times] 08.15.19
Trump Says ‘Hong Kong Is Not Helping’ in Trade War With China – [The New York Times] 08.15.19
Eduardo Bolsonaro, Pro-Trump Son of Brazil’s President, on Track to Be Ambassador to U.S. – [The Intercept]08.14.19
The Kochs Funded Third Way to Push Free Trade to Democrats, New Book Says – [The Intercept] 08.14.19
How a Trump Ally Tested the Boundaries of Washington’s Influence Game – [The New York Times] 08.14.19
Amazon Says Its Facial Recognition Can Now Identify Fear – [CNBC]08.14.19
This Drug Will Save Children’s Lives. It Costs $2 Million. – [The New York Times] 08.14.19
The ‘Public-Charge’ Ploy – [Wall Street Journal] 08.14.19
It’s Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich In America – [Bloomberg] 08.14.19
If the Tuition Doesn’t Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will – [Bloomberg]08.14.19
The Techlash Is Only Making Facebook Stronger – [Bloomberg]08.14.19
Shari Redstone Takes on Media Industry After CBS Victory – [Financial Times] 08.14.19
U.S. Delays Some China Tariffs Until Stores Stock Up for Holidays – [The New York Times] 08.14.19
Amazon Seller Complaints Drawing FTC Interest, Chairman Says – [Bloomberg] 08.14.19
CBS and Viacom Agree to Massive Merger – [Axios] 08.13.19
U.S. to Delay Some Tariffs on China – [The New York Times] 08.13.19
When Cities Turn to Uber, Instead of Buses and Trains – [The American Prospect] 08.13.19
Trump’s Fake Trade War With China – [The American Prospect] 08.13.19
Koch’s Massive Tech Bet: ‘Do It or We’ll End Up in the Dumpster’ – [Bloomberg] 08.13.19
Ads Pitching CBD as a Cure-All Are Everywhere. Oversight Hasn’t Kept Up. – [The New York Times] 08.13.19
The Phony Patriots of Silicon Valley – [The New York Times] 08.13.19
Trump’s Push to Bring Back Jobs to U.S. Shows Limited Results – [The New York Times] 08.13.19
Facebook Reportedly Ditched Plans to Buy a Social Networking Competitor Over Antitrust Fears – [CNBC] 08.12.19
Is Bigger Better? Gannett Merger Will Test Whether Local News Can Be Saved. – [The Washington Post] 08.12.19
Huawei’s Founder Wants an ‘Invincible Iron Army’ to Fight U.S. – [Bloomberg] 08.12.19
Over 150 Flights Canceled as Hong Kong Airport Is Flooded by Protesters – [The New York Times]08.12.19
Braced for the Global Downturn – [Financial Times] 08.12.19
Jeffrey Epstein: Why He Symbolized Privilege and Depravity – [The New York Times] 08.12.19
Jeffrey Epstein’s Finances Are Under the Microscope After His Death – [The New York Times] 08.12.19
How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power – [The New York Times] 08.12.19
How the El Paso Killer Echoed the Incendiary Words of Conservative Media Stars – [The New York Times]08.12.19
There’s More Than One Way to Fight a Monopoly – [The Atlantic] 08.12.19
Silicon Valley’s Giants Look More Entrenched Than Ever Before – [The Economist] 08.09.19
White House Proposal Would Have FCC and FTC Police Alleged Social Media Censorship – [CNN] 08.09.19
Mnuchin and Lampert Want Sears Insurance to Pay Their Legal Fees – [Bloomberg] 08.09.19
Democrats Complain Waters Is Slow to Spread Wall Street Wealth – [Politico]08.09.19
FBI Surveillance Proposal Sets Up Clash With Facebook – [Wall Street Journal] 08.09.19
Knives Being Sold Via Facebook Without Any Age Check – [The Guardian] 08.09.19
Top Bankers Shift Tone Over Horror of No-Deal Brexit – [Financial Times]08.09.19
WeWork Revamp Creates Tax Benefit for Company Insiders – [Financial Times] 08.09.19
Malaysia Charges Goldman Sachs Executives in 1MDB Scandal – [The New York Times] 08.09.19
Huawei Unveils Harmony, Its Answer to Android, in Survival Bid – [The New York Times] 08.09.19
‘Weaponized’ Currency and Mining Limits: China’s Responses to Trump Take Shape – [The New York Times]08.09.19
Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate – [The New York Times] 08.09.19
China Tries to Teach Trump Economics – [The New York Times]08.09.19
The Trump Administration Is Using the Full Power of the U.S. Surveillance State Against Whistleblowers – [The Intercept] 08.08.19
What the Fight Over Means Testing Is Really About – [The American Prospect]08.08.19
White House Invites Tech Companies to Discussion of Violent Online Extremism – [The Washington Post]08.08.19
Billionaire Owner of SoulCycle, Miami Dolphins Faces Backlash Over Trump Fundraiser – [The Washington Post]08.08.19
Trump’s Openness to Extensive Background Checks for Gun Buys Draws Warning From NRA – [The Washington Post] 08.08.19
U.S. Moves to Ban Huawei From Government Contracts – [The New York Times] 08.08.19
China Signals It Will Continue to Weaken Its Currency as Trade War Rages – [The New York Times] 08.08.19
Housing Crisis Grips Ireland a Decade After Property Bubble Burst – [The New York Times] 08.08.19
White House Drafting Executive Order to Tackle Silicon Valley’s Alleged Anti-Conservative Bias – [Politico] 08.07.19
Health Care Is Gobbling Up Your Wages – [Axios] 08.07.19
FedEx to End Ground Deliveries for Amazon – [Wall Street Journal] 08.07.19
Majority Supports Antitrust Review of Tech Giants: Poll – [The Hill] 08.07.19
Gmail Keeps a Record of Your Purchase History in Plain Sight, and It’s Not Alone – [Fast Company] 08.07.19
Apple Stands in the Global Antitrust Crosshairs – [Politico] 08.07.19
Are Trump’s Top Medicaid Regulators Ignoring Major Problems? Insurance Giant’s Tense Meeting With a Senator Adds to Growing Concern. – [ProPublica] 08.07.19
China’s Economy Faces Currency Devaluation Drag – [Financial Times]08.07.19
The Markup, a Tech News Site, Reinstalls Its Fired Editor as Part of a Fresh Start – [The New York Times]08.07.19
Uber Wants to Sell You Train Tickets. And Be Your Bus Service, Too. – [The New York Times] 08.07.19
Trump Says He’s ‘Watching Google Very Closely’ After Meeting With CEO– [The Verge] 08.06.19
Amazon Squeezes Sellers That Offer Better Prices on Walmart – [Bloomberg]08.06.19
GateHouse Media Parent to Buy Gannett for $1.4 Billion – [Wall Street Journal] 08.06.19
Potential Nominee for Democratic Slot on the SEC Troubles Advocates – [The American Prospect] 08.06.19
Progressive Group Says It’s Time for the FTC to Investigate the FTC – [The American Prospect] 08.06.19
Business Group Spending on Lobbying in Washington is at Least Double What’s Publicly Reported – [The Intercept] 08.06.19
Dear Walmart C.E.O.: You Have the Power to Curb Gun Violence. Do It. – [The New York Times] 08.06.19
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Raises Privacy Questions, Say Regulators – [Financial Times] 08.06.19
Legal Shield for Websites Rattles Under Onslaught of Hate Speech – [The New York Times] 08.06.19
‘Ready to Rumble’: U.S.-China Fight Puts World Economy on the Brink – [The New York Times] 08.06.19
Trump’s China Shock – [The New York Times] 08.06.19
Trust No One Online – [The New York Times] 08.06.19
Shameless Monopolies Are Growing in Plain Sight – [Axios] 08.05.19
Facebook Is Building Tech to Read Your Mind. The Ethical Implications Are Staggering. – [Vox] 08.05.19
Trump Calls for Social Media Companies to ‘Detect Mass Shooters Before They Strike’ – [The Verge]08.05.19
Corporate America Considers Its Role in Gun Violence – [The New York Times]08.05.19
States Clash with Cities Over Potential Opioids Settlement Payouts – [The New York Times] 08.05.19
How China’s Currency Could Become a Trade War Weapon – [The New York Times] 08.05.19
Senators Urge Google to Give Temporary Workers Full-Time Status– [The New York Times] 08.05.19
The Age of Wealth Accumulation Is Over – [Financial Times] 08.05.19
US Cities Are Helping People Buy Amazon Surveillance Cameras Using Taxpayer Money – [Vice] 08.04.19
Silicon Valley Is Eyeing the Giant Market for Infant Formula – [CNBC]08.04.19
Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp – [The Information] 08.02.19
How Trump’s Political Appointees Overruled Tougher Settlements With Big Banks – [ProPublica] 08.02.19
The Equifax Settlement Is a Cruel Joke– [Vice] 08.02.19
Delaney Super PAC’s Biggest Donor is Wife of Former Health Care CEO – [Sludge] 08.02.19
Who’s Winning Trump’s Trade War? No One So Far – [Bloomberg] 08.02.19
The FTC Is Looking Into the Amazon and Apple Deal That Crushed Small Resellers – [The Verge] 08.02.19
China Wants to Hit Back at Trump. Its Own Economy Stands in the Way. – [The New York Times] 08.02.19
Why Was Trumponomics a Flop? – [The New York Times] 08.02.19
Good for Google, Bad for America – [The New York Times] 08.02.19
Facebook’s Fact-Checking Program Falls Short – [Columbia Journalism Review] 08.02.19
Facebook’s Fact-Checking Program Falls Short – [Columbia Journalism Review] 08.02.19
Jeff Bezos Sells $1.8bn of Amazon Stock – [Financial Times] 08.01.19
Trump Says He Will Go Ahead With New China Tariffs That Would Hit iPhones and Toys – [CNN] 08.01.19
Trump’s $16 Billion Farm Bailout Will Make Rich Farmers Richer, Report Says – [The Washington Post] 08.01.19
The Messy Health Care Discussion at the Second Democratic Debate, Explained – [Vox] 08.01.19
The Democratic Party’s Quiet Abandonment of Barack Obama – [Financial Times] 08.01.19
Skip Cash for Equifax Breach and Get Credit Monitoring, F.T.C. Tells Victims– [The New York Times] 08.01.19
A Paradox at the Heart of the Newspaper Crisis – [The New York Times] 08.01.19
Kamala Harris Receives Donations From Big Pharma Executives Despite Claim She Rejects Them – [The Intercept]07.31.19
Apple Baits Trump by Saying It Wants to Keep Making Mac Pro in the US – [The Verge] 07.31.19
Google Parent Alphabet Overtakes Apple to Become New King of Cash – [Financial Times] 07.31.19
Rupert Stadler, Ex-Audi Chief, Charged With Fraud in Diesel Scandal– [The New York Times] 07.31.19
Echo Trump’s Tough Talk, or Lift Tariffs? Democrats Clash Over Trade – [The New York Times] 07.31.19
Sanders and Warren Battle Accusations of ‘Fairy Tale’ Promises as Intraparty Rift Flares – [The New York Times] 07.31.19
What Medicare-For-All Skeptics Are Missing – [The Week] 07.30.19
Elizabeth Warren’s Vision for Changing America’s Trade Policy, Explained – [Vox] 07.30.19
Pentagon Issues Forceful Rebuke of Oracle as Debate Over a Massive Federal Contract Turns Caustic – [The Washington Post] 07.30.19
Capital One Says Data Breach Affected 100 Million Credit Card Applications – [The Washington Post]07.30.19
Huawei’s Sales Jump Despite Trump’s Blacklisting – [The New York Times]07.30.19
Equifax Claims May Not Get You $125– [The New York Times] 07.30.19
AT&T Hires Verizon (Excuse Me?) – [The American Prospect] 07.29.19
U.S. College Education Could be Pricier With Textbook Merger – [Reuters] 07.29.19
For Tech, We’re the Gift That Keeps on Giving. But We Get Prime! – [The New York Times] 07.29.19
Assailing High Drug Prices, Bernie Sanders Heads to Canada for Affordable Insulin – [The New York Times] 07.29.19
Elizabeth Warren Is Right to Worry About Private Equity Looting – [Financial Times] 07.29.19
US Department of Justice Must Make Antitrust Fit for the Age of Big Tech – [Financial Times] 07.29.19
Makan Delrahim, a Tech Lobbyist Turned Enforcer – [Financial Times]07.29.19
In an Industrial Corner of France, 18,000 Jobs Are On Offer. Why Aren’t People Taking Them? – [The New York Times] 07.29.19
Did Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Intend To Deceive? – [NPR] 07.29.19
Hopes of a ‘Russian Amazon’ Hit by Corporate Rift – [Financial Times]07.29.19
Russia’s Role in Producing the Tax Man of the Future – [Financial Times]07.29.19
Ex-Corporate Lawyer’s Idea: Rein In ‘Sociopaths’ in the Boardroom – [The New York Times] 07.29.19
Why Whole Foods Hasn’t Satisfied Amazon’s Grocery Appetite – [The New York Times] 07.28.19
Federal Inquiry of Trump Friend Focused on Foreign Lobbying – [The New York Times] 07.28.19
Privacy Group Files Legal Challenge to Facebook’s $5 Billion F.T.C. Settlement – [The New York Times]07.28.19
From Trump to Johnson, Nationalists Are on the Rise – Backed by Billionaire Oligarchs – [The Guardian]07.26.19
The T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Remedy Makes No Sense – [New York Magazine]07.26.19
Facebook Antitrust Inquiry Shows Big Tech’s Freewheeling Era Is Past – [The New York Times] 07.26.19
T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Is Approved by Justice Dept., Clearing Major Hurdle – [The New York Times] 07.26.19
How Amazon Controls Its Marketplace – [The American Prospect]07.26.19
Whatever Happened to the Tech Bubble? – [The Atlantic] 07.26.19
What Economists Have Gotten Wrong for Decades – [Vox] 07.26.19
Chris Hughes Worked to Create Facebook. Now, He Is Working to Break It Up. – [The New York Times]07.25.19
Snap Signals Its DoJ Investigation May Have Been Dropped – [Financial Times] 07.25.19
In Secret Chats, Brazil’s Chief Corruption Prosecutor Worried That Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister Would Protect President’s Son – [The Intercept]07.25.19
Trump’s Antitrust Cops Fail to Police Big Business—Again – [The American Prospect] 07.25.19
Everyone Claims They’re Worried About Global Finance. But Only One Side Has a Plan. – [The New York Times]07.25.19
The Game Has Changed for Big Tech – [The New York Times] 07.25.19
Facebook Revenues Soar Despite $5.1bn in Fines and New Antitrust Investigation – [The Guardian] 07.24.19
Don’t Be Too Impressed With the FTC’s $5 Billion Fine of Facebook – [Slate] 07.24.19
FTC Hits Facebook With $5 billion Fine and New Privacy Checks – [The Verge] 07.24.19
Department of Justice Opens Review Into Big Tech’s Market Power – [Financial Times] 07.24.19
Technology: How the US, EU and China Compete to Set Industry Standards – [Financial Times] 07.24.19
Facebook Fined $5 Billion and Ordered to Add Oversight of Data Practices – [The New York Times] 07.24.19
Justice Department Opens Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies – [The New York Times] 07.24.19
Boris Johnson Wins Tory Contest to Become UK Prime Minister – [Financial Times] 07.23.19
Facebook’s Libra Currency Spawns a Wave of Fakes, Including on Facebook Itself – [The Washington Post] 07.23.19
Facebook Will Have to Pay a Record-Breaking Fine for Violating Users’ Privacy. But the FTC Wanted More. – [The Washington Post] 07.23.19
Did the F.T.C. Go Soft on Facebook? – [The New York Times] 07.23.19
Jeffrey Epstein’s Deep Ties to Top Wall Street Figures – [The New York Times] 07.23.19
What the Equifax Data-Breach Settlement Means for You – [The New York Times] 07.23.19
Facebook’s Plan For a Cryptocurrency Is Right to Set Alarm Bells Ringing – [The Guardian] 07.22.19
Why the Wheels Fell Off China’s Tech Boom – [Financial Times] 07.21.19
Equifax Is Said to Be Near $650 Million Settlement for Data Breach – [The New York Times] 07.21.19
A New Red Scare Is Reshaping Washington – [The New York Times]07.21.19
Trump’s Labor Pick Has Defended Corporations, and One Killer Whale – [The New York Times] 07.20.19
Brexit Funder Arron Banks Threatens Netflix Over Great Hack Documentary – [The Guardian] 07.20.19
Anyone Can Hire a Team of Spies – [The New York Times] 07.19.19
The Fed Has No Interest in Regulating Facebook’s Libra – [Bloomberg] 07.19.19
America Can’t Shake the Cost Disease– [Bloomberg] 07.19.19
Trump Says He’s Looking Into a Pentagon Cloud Contract for Amazon or Microsoft Because ‘We’re Getting Tremendous Complaints’ – [CNBC]07.19.19
U.S. Justice Department May Sue to Block Sprint, T-Mobile Merger: Source – [Reuters] 07.19.19
Trump to Nominate Eugene Scalia for Labor Secretary Job – [The New York Times] 07.19.19
E.P.A. Won’t Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children’s Health Problems – [The New York Times]07.19.19
Bernie Sanders’s Years-Long Feud With Goldman Sachs’s Former CEO Is Now Part of His Campaign – [Vox]07.18.19
EU Hits Qualcomm With €242m Fine Over Pricing – [Financial Times] 07.18.19
Inside the Secretive World of Stalking Apps – [Financial Times] 07.18.19
Qualcomm Is Fined Again by European Regulators for Antitrust Behavior – [The New York Times] 07.18.19
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Faces Second Day of Critical Hearings – [The New York Times] 07.18.19
Google and Facebook Are Quietly Tracking You on Sex Websites – [The New York Times] 07.18.19
Facebook Privately Pitched Its Cryptocurrency Plan Last Month to Regulators. They Were Left Even More Scared. – [The Washington Post]07.17.19
Amazon Faces E.U. Inquiry Over Data From Independent Sellers – [The New York Times] 07.17.19
Facebook Cryptocurrency Plans Have a Problem: Facebook’s Reputation – [The New York Times] 07.17.19
‘Breathtaking Arrogance’: Senators Grill Facebook in Combative Hearing Over Libra Currency – [The Guardian]07.17.19
‘I Don’t Trust You Guys’: Lawmakers Unite to Take Aim at Big Tech – [The New York Times] 07.17.19
Most of the Google Walkout Organizers Have Left the Company – [Wired] 07.17.19
Apple Preaches Privacy. Lawmakers Want the Talk to Turn to Action. – [The Washington Post] 07.16.19
To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public – [Bloomberg] 07.16.19
Tariffs on China Don’t Cover the Costs of Trump’s Trade War – [The New York Times] 07.16.19
Intel Executive: Rein In Data Brokers – [The New York Times] 07.16.19
Tech Investor and Trump Supporter Peter Thiel Thinks Elizabeth Warren Is the Most ‘Dangerous’ Democratic Candidate – [CNBC] 07.16.19
Peter Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google’s ‘Seemingly Treasonous’ Acts – [Bloomberg] 07.16.19
Economist Luigi Zingales: To Limit Big Tech’s Power, Regulations Should Be Tailored – [Fortune] 07.16.19
Inside the Conflict at Walmart That’s Threatening Its High-Stakes Race With Amazon – [Vox] 07.15.19
Amazon Warehouse Workers Around the World Are Striking for Prime Day– [Quartz] 07.15.19
Facebook Is Actually Richer Thanks to News of the FTC’s $5 Billion Fine – [MIT Technology Review] 07.15.19
Facebook’s $5 Billion FTC Fine Is an Embarrassing Joke – [The Verge]07.15.19
Joe Biden Unveils His Health Care Plan – [Axios] 07.15.19
Fighting Big Tech Makes for Some Uncomfortable Bedfellows – [The New York Times] 07.15.19
China’s Economic Growth Hits 27-Year Low as Trade War Stings – [The New York Times] 07.15.19
U.S. Proposes Barring Big Tech Companies From Offering Financial Services, Digital Currencies – [The New York Times] 07.15.19
There Are Too Few Companies and Their Profits Are Too High – [The Nation] 07.14.19
F.T.C. Approves Facebook Fine of About $5 Billion – [The New York Times]07.12.19
Donald Trump Blasts Facebook’s Libra, Demands Strict Regulation – [Ars Technica] 07.12.19
Google Workers Can Listen to What People Say to Its AI Home Devices – [The Guardian] 07.12.19
FCC Commissioner Blasts Carriers for Failure to Fight Robocalls – [The Verge]07.12.19
US Healthcare Is Literally Killing People – [Financial Times] 07.12.19
Drugmakers Braced for Opioid Crisis Reckoning – [Financial Times] 07.12.19
Acosta to Resign as Trump’s Labor Secretary Over Epstein Plea Deal – [The New York Times] 07.12.19
A Koch Executive’s Harassment in China Adds to Fears Among Visitors – [The New York Times] 07.12.19
As Nations Look to Tax Tech Firms, U.S. Scrambles to Broker a Deal – [The New York Times] 07.12.19
The New Plot Against Obamacare – [The New York Times] 07.12.19
T-Mobile, Sprint Expected to Extend Deal Date: Sources – [Reuters] 07.12.19
Washington Has Doubts About Facebook’s Libra Payments Network – [Wall Street Journal] 07.12.19
Who Needs Amazon HQ2? Not New York Real Estate’s Tech Boom – [Wall Street Journal] 07.12.19
Financial Watchdog Shifts From Enforcer to Educator – [Wall Street Journal] 07.12.19
France Moves Toward Digital Tax, Stoking Fight With White House – [The New York Times] 07.11.19
President Trump Withdraws Plan to Eliminate Drug Price Rebates – [The New York Times] 07.11.19
The Nordic Model May Be the Best Cushion Against Capitalism. Can It Survive Immigration? – [The New York Times] 07.11.19
Trump Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Right-Wing Social Media Trolls – [The New York Times] 07.11.19
Amazon to Retrain a Third of Its U.S. Workforce – [Wall Street Journal] 07.11.19
The Problem at Fox News Is Not Just Tucker Carlson — It’s the Murdoch Family That Owns and Controls the Network – [The Intercept] 07.10.19
Revealed: The Explosive Secret Recording That Shows How Russia Tried To Funnel Millions To The “European Trump” – [BuzzFeed] 07.10.19
Big Tech Summoned to Washington for Antitrust Hearing – [Wall Street Journal] 07.10.19
There’s Value in Trying a Wealth Tax – [Bloomberg] 07.10.19
Dr. Bezos Is Ready to See You Now – [Bloomberg] 07.10.19
Trump Administration Will Allow Some Companies to Sell to Huawei – [The New York Times] 07.10.19
Can States Just Say No to Corporate Giveaways? – [The New York Times]07.10.19
The Rise and Fall of the Palo Alto Consensus – [The New York Times]07.10.19
What’s Driving Populism? – [Project Syndicate] 07.09.19
Doc-Lite: the New Menace in $1.2tn Leveraged Loan Market – [Financial Times] 07.09.19
Kohl’s Is Betting on Amazon Returns to Drive Sales – [The New York Times]07.09.19
For France’s Jobless, Macron Aims to ‘Make Work Pay’ – [The New York Times]07.09.19
Jeffrey Epstein Is the Ultimate Symbol of Plutocratic Rot – [The New York Times]07.09.19
Obamacare in Jeopardy as Appeals Court Hears Case Backed by Trump – [The New York Times] 07.09.19
Trump Rule Requiring Drug Prices in TV Ads Blocked – [Wall Street Journal]07.08.19
This Chemical Kills. Why Aren’t Regulators Banning It? – [The New York Times] 07.08.19
‘Democracy . . . Is About to Die in Youngstown’ With Closing of the Local Newspaper – [The Washington Post]07.08.19
Google Keeps Track of Anything You’ve Ever Bought Using Gmail, Even If You Delete Emails – [USA Today] 07.08.19
Banks Steer Clear of Facebook’s Libra Project – [Financial Times] 07.08.19
The Fracturing of the Global Economic Consensus – [Financial Times] 07.08.19
How Private Equity Overcame Its Fear of Dabbling in Drugs – [Financial Times] 07.08.19
Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions. – [The New York Times] 07.08.19
Deutsche Bank Layoffs Begin as Workers Feel Turnaround Plan’s Impact First – [The New York Times]07.08.19
ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases – [The New York Times] 07.08.19
Congress Is Threatening to Make the Next Financial Crisis Worse – [Bloomberg] 07.08.19
Big Tech Has Dug a Moat That Rivals and Regulators Can’t Cross – [Bloomberg] 07.08.19
Google’s Onetime Hired Gun Could Now Be Its Antitrust Nightmare – [Politico] 07.08.19
Your Data Could Be at the Center of the Fight Against Big Tech – [The New York Times] 07.08.19
There Should Be a Public Option for Everything – [The New York Times]07.07.19
Are Tech Companies Africa’s New Colonialists? – [Financial Times] 07.05.19
Abigail Disney: ‘I’m Choosing to Be a Traitor to My Class’ – [Financial Times]07.05.19
Amazon Confirms It Holds on to Alexa Data Even If You Delete Audio Files – [The Verge] 07.05.19
Amazon’s Deliveroo Investment Is Halted for U.K. Scrutiny – [The New York Times] 07.05.19
‘Prospective Threat’ of Chinese Spying Justifies Huawei Ban, U.S. Says – [The New York Times] 07.05.19
Inside an Amazon Warehouse, Robots’ Ways Rub Off on Humans – [The New York Times] 07.05.19
Facebook Is Latest Tech Company to Come Under EU’s Antitrust Scrutiny – [Bloomberg] 07.03.19
Say Hello to the E.C.B.’s New Chief, Christine Lagarde – [The New York Times] 07.03.19
U.S. Proposes New Tariffs on $4 Billion of E.U. Goods as Trade Dispute Grows – [The New York Times] 07.03.19
Money Against Democracy – [The American Prospect] 07.03.19
Without Congressional Input, Trump May Further Widen the Gap Between Rich and Poor – [The American Prospect]07.03.19
The Big Evil Companies Are Right – [Gizmodo] 07.03.19
AT&T Against Gay Rights – [The New York Times] 07.02.19
Walmart and Giant US Retailers Turn Up Heat on Amazon and Google By Calling for Blockbuster Antitrust Investigation – [Business Insider] 07.02.19
Faceplant – [Columbia Journalism Review]07.02.19
Pelosi’s Relationship With Big Tech Shifts As Privacy And Antitrust Questions Mount – [NPR] 07.02.19
Facebook May Be ‘Pivoting’ to Something Worse – [BBC News] 07.02.19
A Facebook Civil Rights Audit Could Have Unintended Consequences – [The Verge] 07.02.19
Trump Pick to Lead F.A.A. Faces Scrutiny From Senate Democrats – [The New York Times] 07.02.19
Li Keqiang, Chinese Premier, Reaches Out to Trump and Business – [The New York Times] 07.02.19
The Moochers of Middle America – [The New York Times] 07.01.19
Sarin Possibly Detected at Facebook Mailing Facility – [CNBC] 07.01.19
Fake Facebook Warlord Used to Spread Malware, Researchers Say – [Bloomberg] 07.01.19
The Power of Google and Amazon Looms Over Tech IPOs – [Bloomberg]07.01.19
Google and Facebook Are Sucking the Brains Out of Europe – [Bloomberg]07.01.19
The Silver Lining for Labor Markets – [Financial Times] 07.01.19
HSBC Tells China It Is Not to Blame for Arrest of Huawei’s CFO – [Financial Times] 07.01.19
What Free College Really Means – [The New York Times] 07.01.19
Trump Restarts China Trade Talks, but the Two Sides Remain Far Apart. – [The New York Times] 07.01.19
What’s Not to Like About the EITC? Plenty, It Turns Out – [The American Prospect] 06.28.19
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