Cheaper for Companies, but Bad for You
Cleaning up messes is expensive, but people want cheap stuff. It’s cheaper for companies to let us pay the cost less directly, via subsidies and suffering.
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Drug Companies Face Off in Dry Eye Solution Lawsuit
Drug Companies Face Off in Dry Eye Solution Lawsuit
Equifax Interim CEO Announces Free Credit Locking Service
In wake of the massive data hack earlier this year, Equifax announced that it would provide “free identity theft protection and credit file monitoring services” for customers. Additionally, just recently it announced “another free service to help consumers protect themselves in the wake of its massive data breach,” credit locking.
Whole Foods, Broken Social Contract
Whole Foods is back in the news. Recently, the beleaguered corporate pawn and shell of a once-awesome grocery retailer washed up on the shore of our newsfeeds with a couple reports worth noticing: a data breach and an allegedly wrongful termination.
Michiganders May Soon Have More Auto Insurance Options
Michiganders May Soon Have More Auto Insurance Options
EPA Administrator Pruitt Has Over-the-top Privacy Requirements
EPA Administrator Pruitt Has Over-the-top Privacy Requirements
Cabot Finally Settles Two Decade-long Drilling Lawsuits
Cabot Finally Settles Two Decade-long Drilling Lawsuits
Minnesota’s Sex Offender Facilities Suspiciously Prison-like
Minnesota’s Sex Offender Facilities Suspiciously Prison-like
Purdue Pharma Not off the Hook for Everett’s Opioid Crisis
Purdue Pharma Not off the Hook for Everett’s Opioid Crisis
Who Are The Masters, Pt 2: Over a Barrel
When incompetent and shady businesses leave customers over a barrel in order to make a profit or stifle competition, we lose, but who are the masters?