Private equity vultures love a great economic crisis. Circling above their wounded corporate prey, they wait until a company is too weak to survive, and, then, swoop in to pick up the pieces at a bargain price—which usually involves cutting thousands of jobs, too. And, now, a new rule will allow private equity firms to […]
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Episode 187: The Vultures Gather; The Coming State Budget Apocalypse
Posted on 24 June 2020.
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Episode 173: Corona And Class Warfare Part II; Stopping A Multi-Billion-Dollar CEO Pension Tax Break
Posted on 18 March 2020.
Last week I asked everyone to consider the coronavirus pandemic as a pretty clarifying picture of class warfare—who are the people who get hurt most when millions of jobs go away or at best are in limbo because of a nationwide shutdown? It’s working people, minimum wage workers, service workers—almost none of whom have enough […]
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Episode 154: Two Tales of Wall Street Vultures; A Progressive Takes On Another Corporate Democrat.
Posted on 30 October 2019.
The Gordon Gekko boast in the fictional movie “Wall Street” that “Greed is Good” is really an organizing principle for the financial vultures who rob the country day after day. Today, you will hear two tales of greed and robbery by hedge fund and private equity vultures. First, it’s Paul Singer, the CEO of a […]
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Episode 151: Private Equity Vultures Are Running A Multi-Billion Dollar Medical Billing Scam; A Progressive Runs in Illinois
Posted on 09 October 2019.
I would never have said it before today but it turns out health insurance companies aren’t the most evil players in the healthcare industry. Don’t freak out—health insurance companies are bad, and they are bankrupting millions of people, and the country. But it turns out even worse than the health insurers are some big mega […]
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Episode 140: Stopping Wall Street Looting; Airline Catering Workers Demand Fair Pay; What Went Down In The Minimum Wage Bill?
Posted on 23 July 2019.
I like the ring of The Stop Wall Street Looting Act, don’t you? True, it’s part of the business model of the joint, especially the private equity pirates. The Act is, in fact, aimed squarely at the private equity industry, who have stripped and destroyed hundreds of companies. I’ll talk about the Act with the […]
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Episode 115: Should Bernie Run?; Teachers Striking!; A National Severance Pay Now!
Posted on 16 January 2019.
A lot of people are wondering: should Bernie Sanders run? Is Bernie going to run? In today’s episode, I consider the notion that Bernie would become the most powerful politician in the country, and it could be better for the progressive movement, if maybe he sidestepped running for president. Whoa! Then, I check in with […]
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Episode 106: The Mid-Term Election Results Will Be…; Grocers go Belly-Up: The Dark World of Private Equity
Posted on 31 October 2018.
I know no more than the next person about what the mid-term election results will be. But, what I can do is bring you, exclusively, the thinking in this episode of Celinda Lake, one of the nation’s leading Democratic and issues pollsters, who tells us what is driving voters right now just days before the […]
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