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- Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
- In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage…
- The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites…
- Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the…
- Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment…
- If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get…
- In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly…
- Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in…
- What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a…
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