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Innovation

…see, for the first time, the beginnings of public resistance to rapacious pricing and other dubious practices of the pharmaceutical industry. It is mainly because of this resistance that drug…

Making Drugs Affordable for All

…up the pharmaceutical industry, which is currently vertically integrated up to the point of sale to distributors and pharmacies. Given the industry’s use of patent monopolies and patent thickets to…

The Oklahoma Republican Party calls Walmart and the mega-corporate fast-food and hospitality industries animals dependent on food stamps. And its chairman wants a national discussion about it. Oblige him, Democrats.

…in the fast-food industry, in retail stores and in the hospitality industry, and have dependent children. Prominent Democrats—Obama, Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and others—need to engage in a mass…

ANGRY BEAR’S ECONOMIC ROUNDUP

…percent in November INDUSTRIAL BASE 12/16 – GE to Eliminate Quarterly Earnings Guidance; and here U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY 12/02 – Gov Report – Automotive Industry: Employment, Earnings, and Hours 12/16…