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Category Archives: Corporate Crime

Ponzi, updated

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

I admit that I have never been able to understand cryptocurrency. The idea that one can create value by wasting electricity and/or solving mathematical problems that no one cares about escapes me. Even an NFT is at least a sort of a thing, which one gets in exchange for one’s money, though I find it […]

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Just a reminder

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Amazon is Evil. Buy elsewhere.

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Who will document the atrocities?

Sunday, October 18, 2020

I ran across this article on my RSS reader today, and it brings to mind something that really should be foremost in our minds: the multitudinous ways in which the present Administration, aided and abetted by the entire Republican Party, has perverted our government. The truly depressing thing is that not only does this abuse […]

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On second thought, Be Evil

Friday, October 9, 2020

I hadn’t realized that Google had abandoned what was once the opening phrase of its code of conduct: Don’t be evil. Just as well, since it and its “contractors” are, not to put too fine a point on it: evil: A year ago, 80 Google contractors employed by HCL America in Pittsburgh voted to unionize […]

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Another (albeit small) brick in the wall

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Yesterday I wrote a sort of review of Kurt Andersen’s Evil Geniuses, which documents the myriad ways in which our country has been hijacked by the ultra-rich, who have succeeded marvelously in either repealing restraints under which they previously operated, or convincing the government and/or the courts to not enforce laws that theoretically restrain them. […]

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Facebook is evil

Sunday, May 31, 2020

It is an unfortunate fact of American life that the rather tepid enforcement of our antitrust laws has now completely evaporated. Remember when Microsoft was sued or making it hard to change the default browser in Windows. IOs makes it impossible, but no one does anything about it. Far worse is Facebook, which is headed […]

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GE to repay (sort of) bribe

Thursday, February 14, 2019

This story may make Dan Malloy’s day: General Electric says it will reimburse the state for the massive incentive package that helped convince the company to move its headquarters here from Connecticut, as it looks to sell its future Fort Point headquarters property and scales back its ambitions. The board of MassDevelopment — a quasi-public agency […]

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A common dodge

Thursday, January 31, 2019

I was struck by a great example of a common right wing/corporate dodge whilst perusing the editorial page of today’s Boston Globe. It is one I think often goes unnoted, so I’m going to note it here. Massachusett’s governor, Charlie Baker, has proposed a set of laws designed to bring down prescription drug prices for […]

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No reason to wallow

Monday, November 26, 2018

This is one of many blog posts I’ve read recently crowing about the number of corporations demanding their money back from Cindy Hyde-Smith after she let her racist flag fly a little too high. Among those sending bribe money her way was Major League Baseball. Now that she has announced to the world that she is […]

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Sanity in the strangest places

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Every once in a while people behave rationally in places where you would never expect it. As all of America knows, Amazon has been soliciting bribes to locate a new facility somewhere in our benighted land. Cities and towns throughout America have been competing to see who can throw the most money at Amazon in […]

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