Big Business

Worried About 'Intimidation,' U.S. Chamber Lobbies for More Campaign Secrecy

Robert Weissman | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Big Business, Congress, Government Contracting, Chamber of Commerce, Corporate Power, Campaign Finance, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Campaign Contributions Disclosure, Government Contractors, Politics News
Robert Weissman

The corrupting pall of campaign-related contributions is worst in the area of government contracting, since this is where the direct payoffs to corporations from political spending are highest.

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Charter Schools Association Is Using Taxpayer Money to Support ALEC's Radical Agenda

Zaid Jilani | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Charter Schools, Alec, Big Business, Greg Richmond, National Association of Charter School Authorizers, National-Association-of-Charter-School-Authorizers, Education News
Zaid Jilani

Following the outcry over the group pushing "Stand Your Ground" laws, at least 15 major corporations, foundations, and other organizations have decided to end their funding commitments to ALEC.

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Big Business Should Stop Ignoring Washington?

Steven Strauss | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Taxes, Politics, Congress, Elections 2012, Auto Industry, General Electric, Big Business, Big Business Leaders, Politics News
Steven Strauss

Big Business' managerial performance in the 2008 financial crisis isn't an inspiring endorsement of advice from, or the managerial competency of, America's largest corporations.

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A Simple Reply From the President

Te-Erika Patterson | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Jobs, Florida, Big Business, Rebuild Your Life Project, United 9 to 5, Te-Erika Patterson, President Obama, Impact News
Te-Erika Patterson

A few days ago, my cell phone chimed. After writing and calling the White House to ask for a meeting with the President on numerous occasions, I finally received an email reply.

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K Street and Wall Street in Trouble in 2012

Mike Lux | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Big Business, Mark Critz, Wall Street, Matt Cartwright, Tim Holden, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, K Street, Jason Altmire, Video, 2012 Election, Pennsylvania Primary, Pennsylvania Primary Results, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Mike Lux

We need Democrats who are willing to stand up to K Street, Wall Street, and big business special interests, so that this election becomes a clear contrast over who will take the big boys on. Pennsylvania's primary results are a great symbol that it is happening.

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Book Review: Power, Inc. by David Rothkopf

Roy Ulrich | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Corporate Power, Role-of-Government, Big Business, David Rothkopf Power Inc, Power Inc, David Rothkopf, Power Inc Review, Books News
Roy Ulrich

Rothkopf argues that thousands of private actors who he calls "super citizens" now hold greater power than most of the countries in the world.

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J. L. Greene

Big Business Finds A New Way to Kill Competition

HuffingtonPost.com | J. L. Greene | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Taxis, Nashville, Politics, Big Business, Video, Monopoly, Livery Cars, Regulation, Portland, Business, Taxi Cabs, Transportation, Politics News

Instead of a taxicab across town, you could take a clean, upscale Town car for the same price. But despite car services in many cities ready to take y...

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Eric Cantor's Wall Street Insider Trading Loophole

Robert Weissman | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Congress, Big Business, Insider Trading, Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street Traders, Eric Cantor, STOCK Act, Congressional-Insider-Trading, Politics News
Robert Weissman

Cantor knows Wall Street is unpopular. He knows the Democrats are going to attack him over the move. He has to know that he is defending the ability of a small slice of Wall Street traders gaining unfair advantage in the markets.

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Obama Can Win Big With FDR Formula

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Big Business, 2012 Elections, Wall Street, Ronald Reagan, Big Government, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Progressives, Harry Truman, Public Opinion, 1936 Election, Democrats, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Always a savvy pragmatist, FDR finally realized it was impossible to compromise with those who refuse to compromise. He also saw that he needed to move left to catch up with his "followers," who were demanding more vigorous action.

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When a Novel's Main Character Is Unlikable

Dave Astor | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Edith Wharton, Women's Rights, Unsympathetic Characters, Politics, Materialism, Unsympathetic Literary Characters, Big Business, Novels, Harry Potter, Bad People, The Rich, Books News
Dave Astor

With all the bad people in real-life politics and big business, do we really want to read about bad people in novels?

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Companies Inconsistent On Consequences Of 'Regulatory Overreach'

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Video, Small Business, Regulations, Henry Waxman Epa, Business Regulations, Henry Waxman, Environmental Regulation, Epa, Big Business, Gop, Regulation, Clean Air Regulation, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Large and small companies have told Republican-led congressional committees what the party wants to hear: dire predictions of plant...

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Peter S. Goodman

Good For Business: Getting Americans Back To Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Obama Job Bill, Obama Jobs, Unemployment, Starbucks Small Business, Starbucks, Big Business, American Jobs Act, Joblessness, Business, Job Creation, Obama Jobs Plan, Income Inequality, Unemployment Fair, Business News

What explains the silence from most of the business world on the need to get serious about creating millions of jobs? In what passes for the natio...

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Obama Jobs Bill Ignores Basic Principle of Job Creation: Small Businesses Create All the Jobs

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Small Business, Lobbying, Jobs Bill, Economy, Fortune 500, Federal Contracts, Big Business, Obama, Corporate Giants, Legislation, Contracts, House, Senate, General Electric, British Aerospace, American Small Business League, Job Creation, Lockheed Martin, Government Contracting, Small Business Government Contracts, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The federal government is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world. Small businesses need those contracts, not the tax cuts proposed in the president's jobs bill.

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An Open Letter to the Occupiers from a Veteran Troublemaker

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Young People, Stewards, Anarchy of Anger, Sojourners, Demonstrations, Jim Wallis, Economics, Demonstrators, Occupiers, Big Business, Popular Movement, Bankers, Marginalized, Utopian, Protesters, Nihilism, Occupywallstreet, Inspiration, Values, Occupation, Corporate Greed, Protests, Society, Ethics, Occupy, Moral Economy, Politics News
Jim Wallis

You have awakened the sleeping giant, too long dormant, but ever present, deep in the American democratic spirit. You have given voice and space to the unspoken feelings of countless others about something that has gone terribly wrong in our society.

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Nine Government Investments That Made Us an Industrial Economic Leader

William Lazonick | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Big Business, Science and Technology, Industrial Development, U.S. Government, Developmental State, Business News
William Lazonick

The history of U.S. government support of industry shows that, far from eschewing a developmental role, it is plausible to argue that from the 19th century up to the present the United States has possessed the world's foremost developmental state.

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Republican Rift: Big Business vs. Tea Party

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Mitch McConnell, Koch Brothers, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Ron Paul, Big Business, Christian Right, Eric Cantor, Sarah Palin, Debt Ceiling, Freedomworks, National Rifle Association, Michele Bachmann, Americans for Prosperity, Glenn Beck, Rick Perry, Grover Norquist, Alan Simpson, Republican Party, Americans for Tax Reform, Tom Coburn, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, Politics News
Peter Dreier

The tension between the two wings of the GOP rose to the surface during the recent battle over the debt ceiling, which then exploded into a war of words between former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and Grover Norquist, head of the right-wing outfit, Americans for Tax Reform.

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What WikiLeaks Reveals About Corporatism Dominating American Foreign Policy

Joan Brunwasser | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Big Business, Corporatism, Wikileaks, American Foreign Policy, Interview, Corporate Media Coverage, Business News
Joan Brunwasser

My guest today is progressive activist, Rania Khalek. Welcome to OpEdNews, Rania. You recently wrote 5 WikiLeaks Revelations Exposing the Rapidly Gro...

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Big Wins for Big Business in the U.S. Supreme Court

Doug Kendall | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Big Business, Politics News
Doug Kendall

The cases this Supreme Court term show that corporations are at the center of the conversation about huge areas of constitutional law these days. If you care about the Constitution, you have to care about business cases in the Roberts Court.

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Why Unions Get a Bad Name

Laura Mola | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Production Companies, Filmmaking, Right to Work, Big Business, Mob Tactics, Scam Tactics, Incentives, Blackmail, Flipping Companies, Union, Minorities, Business News
Laura Mola

My dad was in a union, my aunts and uncles, relatives, extended family, all staunch union members. It afforded my sister and me, daughters of an immig...

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Wonderland

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Government Contracting, Democracy Is for People, Pay-to-Play, Public Citizen, Money and Politics, Executive Order, Political Transparency, Big Business, Citizens United, Obama Executive Order, Citizens United v. FEC, Disclosure, Open Government, Government Contractors, Chamber of Commerce, US Chamber of Commerce, DISCLOSE Act, Politics News
Robert Weissman

It's a good rule of thumb: If the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- the trade association for large corporations -- is whipped up about something, there's p...

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Women-Owned Businesses On The Rise

Open Forum | Posted 06.02.2011

Read More: Big Business, Small Business, Business Report, Women-Owned Businesses, Economy, Open Forum, Woman-Owned Business, Economic Growth, American Express OPEN, Business News

Today, American Express OPEN released The American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, a comprehensive look at the growth of women-ow...

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Do CEO's Have Parents and if So, Where Are They?

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Richard Wilkinson, Eco-System, Children, David Korten, Addiction, Earth, Business, Integrity, Politics, Big Business, God, Wealth, Mothering, Ceos, The Golden Rule, Parents, Greed, Poverty, Money, Income Inequality, Kindness, Parenting, New Economics, Cookies, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Corporations, Narcissism, Respect, Corporate Greed, Paradigm Shift, Kindergarten, Cocaine, Charles Ferguson Inside Job, Plunder, Charles Ferguson, Danny Schechter, Inside Job, Healthy Living News
Mitchell J. Rabin

As a society, we really need to see "what's what" get over the money addiction and seek to equalize the madness that is now passed off as "normal" and "business-as-usual."

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Will Facebook Replace Labor Unions?

Tom Hayes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Linkedin, Corporate America, Workers, Middle East Protests, Big Business, Afl-Cio, Twitter, Organic Solidarity, National Labor Relations Board, Labor Unions, Facebook, Groupon, Social Media, Labor, Section 7, Justin Bieber, Wisconsin Protests, Sean Parker, Politics News
Tom Hayes

While the hidebound institution of the union will become less relevant, organized labor as a force will become more powerful in years to come. Things will just happen differently.

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Lessons in Pluralism

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Business, Wisconsin, Labor Unions, Middle Class, Wisconsin Labor, Pluralism, Wisconsin Protests, Wisconson Unions, Wisconsin News, Scott Walker, Federalist Papers, Wisconsin Middle Class, Politics News
Mike Lux

Here is what is most important to remember about what the Republicans, extreme right, and Wall Street guys are trying to do: it goes against the entire political theory this country was founded on.

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US Chamber's Lobbyists Ran Smear Campaign On Political Opponents

thinkprogress.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Business, Exonnmobil, Lobbying, Corporations, Lobbyists, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Aig, Organized Labor, American International Group, Union, Hackers, Politics News

ThinkProgress has learned that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the big business trade association representing ExxonMobil, AIG, and other major internat...

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