“They are continuing to do similar things today to try to fool people and pull the wool over people’s eyes just in the name of greed,” the former vice president said. In reflecting on nearly 50 years of climate advocacy, former Vice President Al Gore said that he had “underestimated” the greed of the fossil […]
Their plan is based on something Harry S. Truman did when he was in the Senate. Six senators this week sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for him to “reconstitute the World War II-era Truman Committee to investigate war profiteering and price gouging in the American military industrial complex.” The senators include Sens. Bernie […]
“Congress must put an end to this form of corporate welfare,” the senator said, arguing that one new way to do that involves reviving an old policy. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has a novel way to stop military-industrial complex profiteers from “bilking the American people”—and it’s actually over 80 years old. In an article published Tuesday in The Atlantic, Sanders […]
“Many large firms, beyond just the commodities sector, are using their power to preserve their profit margins,” said the co-author of a new report. A pair of London-based think tanks released research Thursday showing that corporate profits contributed substantially to the high inflation that the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and other major nations experienced amid […]