Charles “Chuck” Feeney, 89, who cofounded airport retailer Duty Free Shoppers with Robert Miller in 1960, amassed billions while living a life of monklike frugality. As a philanthropist, he pioneered the idea of Giving While MORE
Trump, who ran on cleaning up corporate abuses and draining the swamp, is now curbing corporate oversight at the behest of big business donors Politico: The White House is taking action to rein in enforcement MORE
Shopping on Amazon for paper towels, rice or other products that consumers hoovered up during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic? You might be able to find them cheaper elsewhere, according to a report by a MORE
Japan to pay firms to produce goods locally or in Southeast Asia, in shift from China Dozens of companies will get US$536 million in subsidies to invest in production in Japan Another 30 firms MORE
Houston Chronicle: Congress enlisted oil companies to help develop an underground carbon storage system to aid in the fight against climate change. Oil producers for decades had pumped carbon dioxide underground to increase output, steadily MORE
New York (CNN Business)The US Securities and Exchange Commission has paid out its largest-ever whistleblower award — nearly $50 million. The whistleblower tipped off the agency to a currency manipulation scheme at a massive bank, resulting in MORE
***It’s not ‘shoshilism’ when Republicans do it. On Friday, the USDA approved $1.2 billion in contracts for Farmers to Families Food Box, which seeks to move surplus food out of the market and into food banks. “The MORE
Amazon VP Quits, Destroys Company for ‘Chickensh*t’ Firing of Whistleblowers in Scorched Earth Letter Amazon VP Quits, Destroys Company for ‘Chickensh*t’ Firing of Whistleblowers in Scorched Earth Letter Source: An Amazon engineer and vice president MORE
WY has produced more coal than any other state in the country since 1986,… But it’s no secret that the coal industry was already sinking, showing symptoms of structural decline. Utilities have shied away from MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices plunged below zero on Monday as demand for energy collapses amid the coronavirus pandemic and traders don’t want to get stuck owning crude with nowhere to store it. Stocks MORE
Ford, General Motors, and Fiat Chrysler Automotive have given in to UAW demands to close all plants as a precaution against the Coronavirus. Ford Motor Company says after Thursdays shifts, all plants will temporarily close MORE
Wall Street does not like the Coronavirus. Despite all government intervention and reassurances, Wall Street looks to a recession as most all of the gains since Trump was elected have vanished. All major U.S. indices MORE
In a banking scheme very similar to the Wells Fargo scandal, Fifth Third, a large regional bank in Ohio is accused by the CFPB of opening fraudulent accounts to drive stock price For more than MORE
On the surface it seems an odd partnership: a prominent member of a secretive Utah polygamist sect and the Armenian immigrant owner of a prosperous chain of Southern California truck stops. But testimony in the MORE
Yet he’s not charged with any criminal violations… Source: The U.S. government announced Thursday that former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf has been banned from ever working at a bank again and will pay $17.5 million for scandals in MORE