…done via a key punched tape or setup with an automatic piece of equipment doing several functions. At Parker Hannifin, there were two automatics (machines) doing such. One a six…

…owned by the big 3 insurance companies dominate the industry and their formularies dictate what’s paid for and what’s not paid for. If you’re a pharmaceutical manufacturer, regardless of what…

…2026 Letters from An American Prof, Heather Cox Richardson In a ceremony at the White House yesterday, surrounded by coal industry leaders, lawmakers, and miners, President Donald J. Trump was…

…in $30 Million Per Hour in Windfall Profits,” Common Dreams US President Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran has been a goldmine for the fossil fuels industry. The industry…

…the insurance industry by effectively buying that industry off: private insurers were able to keep their existing business while gaining new business through the expanded market for individual policies. As…

…captured by the financial services industry that it thinks industry members don’t engage in fraud, they only make “mistakes”? It’s sure looking like the latter. We’ve railed repeatedly on the…

…consolidation of an already highly consolidated health care industry. The final evaluation of the Pioneer ACO program reported, for example: “Approximately three-quarters of Pioneer physicians indicated that participation had required…

…need due to foreign influence in the market. Such could probably be said about the steel industry also. Subsidizing improvements in production by the government in new steel manufacture technology…

…Trust Your Instincts flags a Reuters report that that Eurozone regulators are strongly considering a proposal to make not just investors in Cyprus banks pay for part of their bailout,…

…the 1990s. … [W]ithout the bailout of LTCM [Long-term Capital Management hedge fund] by national bank regulatory authorities, many banks and reinsurers might have collapsed as well.” So why do…