oil industry Shell reports $9.5 billion profit in 2022 3rd quarter. Last year it made $4.1 billion in the same quarter Mark Frauenfelder
COVID-19 Husband and wife team proudly reselling sanitizers and wipes at quadruple prices Mark Frauenfelder
coronavirus Here are the 5 kinds of pandemic villains who are making things worse for the rest of us Mark Frauenfelder
COVID-19 Amazon and eBay punished coronavirus price-gougers by making it harder for the rest of us to get hand sanitizer Thom Dunn
COVID-19 If you try to resell a face mask for profit in Japan, you could go to jail for a year Mark Frauenfelder
late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow
health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow
privacy Not only is Google's auto-delete good for privacy, it's also good news for competition Cory Doctorow
Business Self-insurer Walmart flies its sick employees to out-of-state specialists to avoid local price-gougers Cory Doctorow
Business Schadenflying: the super-rich are getting ripped off like crazy on their private jet billings Cory Doctorow
Business One of pharma's most notorious gougers is going bankrupt, but 2019 is a banner year for shkreli-grade pharmaceutical price-hikes Cory Doctorow
law Appeals court kills the dirty trick of using Indian tribes as a front for patent trolls and claiming sovereign immunity Cory Doctorow
health America's large hospital chains will start manufacturing generic drugs in order to beat shkrelic price-gouging Cory Doctorow
Business Trump's "free market" FCC loves monopolies, especially when they rip off prisoners' families Cory Doctorow
