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Pharma Giants Launch Legal Blitz to Prevent Medicare Price Negotiations

The pharmaceutical industry launched a barrage of lawsuits to prevent the federal government from negotiating the price of prescription drugs for Medicare patients. Four companies,…

How Johnson & Johnson is abusing bankruptcy court to protect shareholders

Johnson and Johnson reached a tentative $8.9 billion agreement to compensate tens of thousands of people who claim the company’s talcum-based products gave them cancer.…

How CEOs Manipulate the Stock Market

You’ve heard the term stock buybacks everywhere this year. In the airline and railroad industry, the oil and gas industry, in entertainment, and in food…

Bed, Bath & Beyond’s Ex-CEO Got Rich Bankrupting the Retailer, Now Workers Stand to Lose

Bed, Bath and Beyond is spiraling towards bankruptcy, but in a cruel twist of fate reminiscent of other recent retailers, the executives responsible for wrecking…
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