Money Over People

How Pfizer Won the Pandemic Profit and Influence Contest

How Pfizer Won the Pandemic Profit and Influence Contest

Just last week, the Biden administration agreed to buy another 105 million doses of Pfizer’s covid vaccine for the fall booster campaign, paying $3.2 billion—a significant premium over what the government paid for the first 100 million.
How the Reagan Economy Is About the Screw Us Again

How the Reagan Economy Is About the Screw Us Again

In addition to an economy held together with the baling-wire of Fed stimulus (that’s ending), both the U.S. and the world are facing a wild spectrum of assaults that could have huge economic impacts.
Wealth Won’t Protect the Rich from Climate Change

Wealth Won’t Protect the Rich from Climate Change

Although wildfires in California have historically peaked in the late summer and fall, Orange County Fire Authority Assistant Chief of Field Operations TJ McGovern told CNN that this is already the area's fourth blaze this year.
Rick Scott — Florida Man Gaslights Himself

Rick Scott — Florida Man Gaslights Himself

Rick Scott has published an 11-point proposal to raise taxes on the poorest of Americans and set the stage to destroy Medicare and Social Security. But he now claims it isn't so.
Big Oil Delivers a Master Class in War Profiteering

Big Oil Delivers a Master Class in War Profiteering

Two years after winning multi-billion dollar bailouts from the Trump administration, these newly flush companies are pocketing billions from an international crisis, and they don't care how it affects regular Americans.
How Billionaires Use Expensive Hobbies to Avoid Income Tax

How Billionaires Use Expensive Hobbies to Avoid Income Tax

Thoroughbred horses, auto racing, massive ranches, luxury hotels. The hobbies and side businesses of some billionaires create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income tax for as much as a decade at a time.