Pluralistic: America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable (13 Nov 2024)

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America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable: When you're famous they let you do it.
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Pluralistic: The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street (14 Aug 2024)

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The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street: The Robinson-Patman Act is how we make sure companies aren't too big to jail nor too big to care.
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Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024)

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Too big to care: Enshittification is a choice.
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Pluralistic: The long sleep of capitalism's watchdogs (26 Jan 2024)

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The long sleep of capitalism's watchdogs: "Self-regulation is to regulation as self-importance is to importance."
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Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (22 Nov 2023)

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Don't Be Evil: My new Locus Column.
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Pluralistic: KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits (09 May 2023)

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KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits: Too big to fail, too big to jail, and an existential risk to civilization.
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