Michael Winship – Trading Politics for Medical Profits
Cash and carry has become nothing more than standard operating procedure in politics and government, and it’s wrecking the republic. The whole system is rotten to the core, corrupted by big business...
View ArticleThe (Bill) Clinton Team’s Secret Meeting on CEO Compensation
Naked Capitalism readers are familiar with the fact that CEO compensation exploded starting in the 90s, and that this explosion was related to a shift towards companies providing compensation in the...
View ArticleEconomic Update –“Economics for Labor Day”– 09.11.16
“Updates on dark money, Mylan drug scandal, air lines concentrating, capitalism and poor countries (India, China). On Labor Day: key facts, struggles, and issues.” Download this episode (right click...
View ArticlePaul Buchheit – Five Deadly Sins of Big Pharma
For Mylan, it was a perfect plan—diabolical, unstoppable. The company made changes in its anti-allergy EpiPen dispenser in 2009, enough to give it patent protection. Then, in 2012, it began to give...
View ArticleDeirdre Fulton – Big Pharma Preps to Spend Hundreds of Millions to Keep Drug...
Facing an increasingly outraged public, the leading Big Pharma lobby group is hiking its annual dues by more than 50 percent as it prepares to defend its pharmaceutical company members against...
View ArticleMartha Rosenberg – Pharma Prepares for Profit Party under Trump
Even before a Clinton concession speech, Pharma stocks were hopping and Wall Street saluting over a Trump administration. No pesky price regulation over drugs like EpiPen! No pesky safety regulation...
View ArticlePaul Fassa – Federal Government Works with Pharmaceutical Companies to...
In the United States today, the federal government controls which substances can be used to treat diseases, and which ones cannot. In general, only pharmaceutical drugs which can be patented are...
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