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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: The Fed, the Google Antitrust Case, and Covid Bankruptcies

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  "In the popular imagination, the Fed is a...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Economists, Corporate Giveaways, and Elon Musk

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. There's been a lot of discussion of Milton...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Insider Trading, Central Banking, and the Fall of the CDC

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  I guess insider trading is just like pornography:...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Friedman, 50 Years Later Edition

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. We're celebrating—ok, acknowledging might be a better word—the...
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Is Twitter’s Policy Silencing Public Debate or Preventing Disinformation? Or Both?

ProMarket writers
Last October, Twitter banned political ads from its platform in an attempt to prevent disinformation campaigns and electoral interference. There was one exemption to...
Covid-19

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Inequality, Remote Learning and the First Female Recession

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. There are a few things that I've thought...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Stocks, Stakeholders, and Fracking

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  So the market is sane, right? Well. I'd...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Wirecard, Covid-Overwhelmed Hospitals, and Plastic

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  A company and the sycophants—I'm sorry, research analysts—who...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Shopify, Distressed Investors, and the Sacklers’ Opioid Fortune

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  In the middle of a pandemic, it's...
Antitrust and Competition

“The Antitrust Doctrine We’ve Seen Over the Last 40 Years Simply Does Not Match the Lived Experience of People”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, investigative journalist David Dayen discusses the toll that monopoly power takes on the lives of ordinary Americans and why...
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