Human beings are overpowering the planet for the first time. -Marco Lambertini It’s time to get our asses in gear.
Living Planet Report, 2016 – Marco Lambertini of WWF
Category: Bettering BusinessClimate Change
Category: Bettering Business
Mylan shares surge on EpiPen settlement news
Category: Bettering Business
EpiPen said its subsidiary Mylan Inc. has agreed to a $465 million settlement with the Justice Department and other government agencies stemming from the classification of EpiPen for Medicaid rebates. The terms of the settlement “do not provide for any finding of wrongdoing” by Mylan… Source: Mylan shares surge on EpiPen settlement news The door […]
Rebooting Work – Douglas Rushkoff
Category: Bettering BusinessEconomicsTechnology
[D]igital technology is expressing and amplifying the embedded values of industrialism. -Douglas Rushkoff http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/the-future-of-work-rebooting-workprogramming-the-economy-for-people
Tax Research UK » It’s time to re-embrace nationalisation, when it’s appropriate
Category: Bettering BusinessEconomicsGovernance
“[T]here is no one answer as to ideal ownership structures. In the real world we need a mixed economy. Some things (natural monopolies like health and education if the benefit is to be universal) have to be state run. Others, such as coffee shops and a vast array of small businesses need no state involvement […]
The US Government Loses As Much As $111 Billion Annually Due to Corporate Tax Dodging –
The report estimates that the US loses $111 billion a year and that developing countries lose $100 billion annually due to corporate tax dodging. From 2008-2014, according to the report, the top 50 American corporations reported $4 trillion in profits and paid $1 trillion in taxes globally, with only $412 billion of that going to […]
Why I’m Supporting Bernie Sanders – Senator Merkley
I grew up in working-class Oregon. On a single income, my parents could buy a home, take a vacation and help pay for college. My father worked with his hands as a millwright and built a middle-class life for us. My parents believed in education and they believed in the United States. When I was […]
How Boots went rogue | Aditya Chakrabortty | News | The Guardian
Category: Bettering BusinessEconomicsNo Footer
You know what rogue capitalism looks like. It is a pinstriped banker defending his bonus, a Silicon Valley executiveexplaining exotic tax practices to short-tempered MPs, a billionaire sportswear boss pouring more money into his pocket. It is zero-hours contracts and financial shadowplay, profits funnelled through offshore shell companies and giant warehouses teeming with temps on […]
Panama Papers Leak Signals a Shift in Mainstream Journalism – NYTimes.com
the leak signaled something else that was a big deal but went unheralded: The official WikiLeaks-ization of mainstream journalism; the next step in the tentative merger between the Fourth Estate, with its relatively restrained conventional journalists, and the Fifth Estate, with the push-the-limits ethos of its blogger, hacker and journo-activist cohort, in the era of gargantuan […]
Lower Drug Prices Without Saying No | Beat the Press | Blogs | Publications | The Center for Economic and Policy Research
There are undoubtedly other schemes that can be devised that pay for research without giving drug companies monopolies over the distribution of the drug. Obviously we do have to pay for the research, but we don’t have to use the current patent system. It is like paying the firefighters when they show up at the […]
Democracy – Peter G. Brown | Center for Humans & Nature
I usually try to grab a piquant quote from things that I share here, but this is one of those “read the whole thing” things. Democracy in the Anthropocene by Peter G. Brown http://www.humansandnature.org/democracy-peter-g.-brown