Can Wall Street buy redemption? November 2013Goldman Sachs, churns out enormous profits from its high-rolling, casino investment schemes, while also churning out fat paychecks for its... Read more...
Get a whiff of "synthetic biology" November 2013It’s always inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or... Read more...
A milk-carton campaign for "missing workers" November 2013Wall Street analysts, corporate lobbyists, and front groups like the US Chamber of Commerce form an exuberant cheering squad for... Read more...
The Charitable Bankers of Goldman Sachs November 2013On Wall Street, it’s assumed that anything can be bought and sold – from fraudulent investment packages to congress critters.... Read more...
Cruzing to the White House? November 2013One of the stupidest bits of conventional wisdom popping out of Washington these days is that, whatever opinion you have... Read more...
Lobbyists hope to rebrand themselves November 2013Here’s a scary number to ponder: 12,407. That’s how many registered lobbyists there are in Washington – the bulk of... Read more...
Monsanto's World Food Farce October 2013It was my privilege to go to Des Moines, Iowa recently for a World Food Prize extravaganza recognizing Monsanto’s work... Read more...
Should there be a sanity test for Congress critters? October 2013What a show the goofily-fanatical tea party Republicans are putting on in Washington! First, they threw a group hissy fit... Read more...
Why are we subsidizing McDonald's? October 2013Let us all now bow before the god of free enterprise, whose awesomeness was revealed in a recent news release... Read more...
The Ignoble Prize For Agriculture October 2013A problem with trophies is that they tend to tarnish over time. But one that Monsanto recently received came already... Read more...
Wackos intend to cage themselves in Idaho October 2013I haven’t heard such enthusiastic, downright raucous applause since Texas Gov. “Oops” Perry suggested in 2009 that his state just... Read more...
A tomato tale that's hard to stomach October 2013“I’m 98 percent confident we can make a tomato that tastes substantially better,” Professor Harry Klee recently exulted to the... Read more...
USA: low wage nation or good jobs nation October 2013How’s this for irony? Ronald Reagan – who is worshipped as the supreme deity by small-government, anti-spending zealots – not... Read more...
Corporate greed is making us sick October 2013The failure of our corporate and political leaders to make sure every worker gets good health care is causing some... Read more...
Wall Street magicians make reform disappear October 2013What amazing alchemist Wall Street bankers are! They can turn failure into gold and reform into business as usual. These... Read more...
Donnie Trump U October 2013From day one, some of the students who paid a bundle to enroll in “Trump University” should’ve known they were... Read more...
A Congress of comics: Laugh 'til it hurts October 2013And now, Dr. Hightower offers this advice for improving your mental health: Don’t fume about the GOP’s lunatic effort to... Read more...
Larry Goodwyn October 2013I don’t normally do obits – there are too many of them, they tend to be downers, and… well, we’re... Read more...
GOP unhinged by Obamacare October 2013Whacking yourself on the head with a ballpeen hammer would be stupid. But doing it again and again – that’s... Read more...
Monsanto buys a food prize October 2013As Lily Tomlin has noted, “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.” For example, imagine... Read more...
What's in your closet, Warren? October 2013Are you one of those people who simply has too much stuff? You know who you are, so don’t try... Read more...
The agonizingly-slow pace of a fast food giant October 2013The appeal of fast food chains has not been their food (mostly fat, salty, sugary, empty-calorie blah), but their speed.... Read more...
The unholy cult of today's government-subsidized "Boom" October 2013Thomas Carlyle called economics “the dismal science.” But he was only half right. Dismal, yes, but a science, no. It’s... Read more...
J.P. Morgan – the man and the bank October 2013J.P. Morgan was recently socked in the wallet by financial regulators, who levied a fine of nearly a billion bucks... Read more...
Getting ahead on the backs of others October 2013Having been raised in a small-business family and now running my own small business, I always find it heartwarming to... Read more...
