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Intel and Financialization – harvesting money brings loss of focus on products….

September 2, 2025 Mark Orton 0

Intel is in the news these days because it’s stumbling and Trump efforts to make our government a shareholder. Professor Bill Lazonick spoke about financialization […]

How to end the financialization of corporations

April 29, 2025 theheist 0

ending the tsunami of money into the hands of the rich As I have noted many times here, the financialization of corporations, that is the […]

Elon Musk, $50 billion, and Financialization – from production to extraction

January 31, 2024 theheist 0

Much is being made of a Delaware court blocking Musk’s $50 billion compensation contract. See the reporting in the NYTimes: Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Package […]

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