The Highroad
‘The New York Times’ strikes out
For more than a century, The New York Times has unabashedly bragged in a banner slogan that it publishes “All the News That’s Fit...
Wall Street’s ‘Mom & Pop’ bankers
Don´t cry for Jamie Dimon, America. As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, this ruling mogul of Wall Street must now cope with the recently enacted financial reform bill, which imposes a host of new regulations meant to rein in the rip-offs, frauds and other excesses of Wall ...
Political con men are shrinking America
In my state of Texas, things tend to be bigger — bigger hats, bigger money and bigger thievery by political con men...
A curse, a blessing and a good food movement
In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the U.S. Senate to reject Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s choice for secretary of agriculture...
Parsing the PR lies of Goldman Sachs
CorporateSpeak is an inane language that conveys seriousness without any sincerity.
Consider this example from Goldman Sachs: “We are pleased to put these legacy matters...
There’s a word for Trump’s latest flimflamming of workers
By gollies, The Donald delivers!
Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of working-class champions have announced a bold initiative to create millions of American jobs....
What job creation numbers don’t tell us
Have you noticed that The Powers That Be employ an entirely different standard for measuring the health of America’s job market than they use for the stock market...
Biotech runs amuck. Again
When asked what the world needs, people tend to go all gushy and offer up such fuzzy stuff as “world peace” and “more kindness...
Bezos buys a big piece of power
An old cowboy aphorism says: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse...
