Associated PressSeptember 21, 2022
12min0
The lawsuit is the culmination of a three-year civil investigation of Trump and the Trump Organization.
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Associated PressSeptember 21, 2022Associated PressMay 26, 2022
10min0
This case involves the former President's business practices.
Peter SchorschMarch 30, 2017
4min317
Legislation introduced this Session – HB 95 and SB 182 – seeks to change the current drug formulary system utilized by health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers. Both bills have received significant support from “patient advocacy groups” during the course of the debate. But who are these so-called patient groups, and how are they funded? […]
Martin DyckmanAugust 28, 2016
8min223
“Your money or your life,” a laugh line for the great comedian Jack Benny, must be the business model of the American pharmaceutical industry. It’s time for a serious national discussion on establishing price controls over Big Pharma. The latest provocation is the staggering increase in the price of the EpiPen, a necessity for people […]
Guest AuthorFebruary 8, 20165min357
Pity Martin Shkreli’s mother. Don’t you know she just wants to snatch that boy bald? You know Shkreli, right? The 33-year-old brat-turned-hedge-fund-fraudster who bought a cheap generic drug and raised its price to the stratosphere and then rolled his eyes at a congressional committee this week? Yeah, that one. And, if you’ve somehow missed him […]
Martin DyckmanDecember 23, 20158min234
Academe would be a dreary place without its occasional kooky professor, but James Tracy of Florida Atlantic University is simply too much. Hired to teach about conspiracy theories, he digressed into peddling his own, beginning with the claim that the Newtown, Connecticut, massacre three years ago was a hoax by the media and by the […]
Martin DyckmanSeptember 28, 20157min196
The comedian Jack Benny, generous in private life, cultivated the stage persona of a world-class skinflint. In one of his most famous radio skits, he’s accosted by an armed robber who demands “your money or your life.” When Benny doesn’t answer, the thug loses patience. “Look, bud, I said, your money or your life,” he […]