Canadians have focused their trade anger on President Trump. They’d be wise to also consider their treatment by General Motors.
Politics
The $40 Trillion Scam: How U.S. Debt Benefits the Rich
Uncle Sam’s national debt surpassed $40 trillion in recent days, and America now spends more servicing that debt than it does on national defense. History shows that many once-great empires collapsed after debt service eclipsed defense spending.
What should alarm and anger everyday Americans are the bipartisan policies responsible for this crushing debt and how the wealthiest Americans ultimately benefit.
Uber’s Tony West and The Passing of #MeToo
Remember #MeToo?
A New York Times investigation found that female lawyers representing Uber questioned women suing the company over alleged sexual assaults about their clothing, drinking, childhood trauma, sexual histories, and even whether they were wearing underwear on the night they were assaulted.
The executive ultimately responsible for Uber’s legal strategy is Tony West, the former senior Obama Justice Department official who oversaw the DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women and later played an influential role in Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign.
SAIC, China’s Humiliation of GM & Capitalist Greed
Ignorance is bliss. Otherwise, more Americans might be alarmed to learn how General Motors became dependent on the state-controlled Chinese automaker it once taught to build world-class vehicles.
The Flies on Trump’s Oval Office Walls
How many flies are buzzing around the Oval Office walls? Apparently enough to reconstruct top-secret meetings, presidential frustrations, and internal debates in remarkable detail.
The more alarming question is why corporate journalistic curiosity is so selective.
GM: Where U.S. Presidents Go to Sully Themselves
Perhaps Mary Barra deserves her nearly $30 million annual compensation after all. Name another CEO who has successfully played two U.S. presidents to her company’s advantage.
Brad Parscale and Israel’s $50M PR Debacle
Israel’s intelligence operations may be brilliant, but its political and communications judgment is astonishingly naïve.
CEOs and the $4.8T Looting of Corporate America
Corporate America has spent more than $4.8 trillion buying back its own stock since 2018.
CEOs say buybacks signal confidence because they believe their companies’ shares are undervalued.
Then why are so many executives selling their own stock while their companies are buying it?
The Marketing Tragedy of Ford’s Mustang Mach-E
Ford’s Mexican-made Mustang Mach-E has muscled its way big time onto the roads of my west Los Angeles neighborhood. For years I rarely saw the vehicle, which first went on sale in December 2020, but these days they’re everywhere, in some pretty sweet color schemes, I must add. I saw…
Munitions Mary and GM’s Weapons of War
GM CEO Mary Barra’s ability to reinvent herself rivals that of a career politician switching platforms on the campaign trail. First there was “No More Crappy Cars Mary,” a promise she made on CNBC when she oversaw the automaker’s new product development. Then there was “Mechanic Mary,” a moniker she…