One of the things Donald Trump loves most of all in this world is endlessly bragging what a great businessman he is, how he makes the best deals, how he always makes a profit, and how he plans to do the same thing for the American economy if he should become President. But based on […]
An administrative law judge with the Labor Relations Board has ordered Walmart to reinstate 16 workers the judge says were unlawfully fired for going on strike against the retailer. Walmart was also ordered to pay those who were fired back pay and expunge the disciplinary records of 38 other workers who were punished for being […]
Elizabeth Warren is not afraid to speak her mind, and this week she decided to call out Jeb Bush for some campaign contributions he recently accepted from a very shady character in the financial world. Who made a $10 million (!) contribution to Jeb’s Right to Rise super PAC recently? None other than Hank Greenberg. […]
Isn’t it wonderful how the universe seems to have a way of paying back jerks like Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli? He decides to raise the price of a drug needed to treat HIV by 1,500 percent, and then last week he was arrested for securities fraud. But as it turns out, Shrkreli’s woes were only […]
Some 100 Walmart employees have joined a movement to fast for the 15 days leading up to Thanksgiving. They saythis is a protest for an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour. And they may also be joined by up to 1000 more low-wage earners around the country who are taking this measure […]
In September, when the news came that Rupert Murdoch, better known as the Douchebag Conservative Overlord of Fox News, had just purchased National Geographic, it sent of waves of concern among those who have long seen National Geographic as one of the great bastions of scientific exploration and reporting. But things had rocked along in […]
Bill Gates may well be one of the richest men in the world, a man who acquired his fortune as a direct result of the private sector and the capitalist way, but in a recent interview with the Atlantic magazine, Gates says the only hope for saving the planet from climate change lies in socialism. […]
Federal authorities are currently investigating the owners of Hobby Lobby for illegally importing stolen artifacts from Iraq which they plan to display at their soon-to-be constructed Museum of the Bible. Agents from the U.S. Customs Service seized up to 300 small clay tablets which had been shipped from Israel to Hobby Lobby corporate headquarters in Oklahoma City. […]
SunTrust Banks is a huge multinational corporation with $189 billion in assets. Clearly, the banking business has indeed been profitable for SunTrust. Which makes what they recently told about 100 employees so puzzling. The bank recently let over 100 highly trained IT workers go, but it’s trying to retain their services for free by attaching […]
The stock market giveth, and the stock market taketh away. If you doubt that, just consider what happened yesterdaywhen Walmart stock hit a 30-year low. The company’s profits are estimated to decrease by 12 percent in 2015. How drastic has all this been for the Walton family heirs who own the majority of the stock […]