Pluralistic: America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees (09 Sep 2024)

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America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees: Incentives matter, especially when it comes to stock buybacks.
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Pluralistic: Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages (05 Aug 2024)

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Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages: Corporate raiders and investment banks conspiring to steal companies.
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Pluralistic: Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money (26 Jul 2024)

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Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money: Taking 60 cents out of every reduced-lunch public school dollar.
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Pluralistic: How to screw up a whistleblower law (15 Apr 2024)

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How to screw up a whistleblower law: We want kingpins, not powerless underlings.
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Pluralistic: Brinkwhump Linkdump (02 Mar 2024)

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Brinkwhump Linkdump: A varied mixture for the weekend.
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Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024)

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How I got scammed: And why AI will make it worse.
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Pluralistic: Linkdump Minkchump (16 Dec 2023)

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Linkdump Minkchump: A thoroughly assorted Saturday.
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Pluralistic: Stinkpump Linkdump (02 Dec 2023)

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Stinkpump Linkdump: With a bonus jarring shift in tone.
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Pluralistic: Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors" (08 Nov 2023)

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Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors": Big gubmint wants to take away your freedom to starve to death in old age.
Announcing The Lost Cause Tour: LA, Stratford, Concord, Simsbury, Toronto, New York and Chapel Hill!
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Pluralistic: Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers (05 Oct 2023)

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Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers: When your pension fund comes for your job, your home, and your funeral.
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