By David Cay Johnston
A bestselling author’s stunning research of the numerous methods we're victimized by means of corporations
David Cay Johnston, the bestselling writer of Perfectly criminal and Free Lunch, is legendary for exposing the perfidies of our greatest associations. Now he turns his recognition to the methods large organizations cover sneaky conditions in exactly approximately each agreement, frequently with executive permission.
No different sleek kingdom provides organizations the unfettered strength present in the US to gouge buyers, shortchange employees, and erect boundaries to reasonable play. Johnston stocks suggestions you should use to struggle again opposed to the imprecise charges and taxes, and to aid finish those devious practices.
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According to government documents, BNSF jacked up some prices 40 percent faster than the economic data showed was warranted based on costs. BNSF got away with this because, buried in the fine print, there are rules about who can file pricegouging complaints. Even though farmers bear the cost of shipping their wheat to market, grain companies who buy from farmers contract for most shipping. Two of the biggest grain shippers are Cargill, the privately owned business that is the world’s largest grain dealer, and Archer Daniels Midland or ADM (a major beneficiary, by the way, of a long-running subsidy for ethanol that was also involved in the global price-fixing scandal for another product, lysine).
What’s different is the scale. Ancient towns were built to suit humans, with streets about as wide as the promenades in today’s shopping malls because everyone walked. Without this electricity, there would be no internal combustion gasoline engines, which rely on an electric spark to ignite the fuel. There would be none of the elevators that make high-rise buildings feasible, no automated traffic lights, no pumps to move water uphill. Without electricity, bauxite could not be melted to make aluminum, so jetliners, unimaginable to the ancients, would still be impossible.
This ability to match almost instantly any competitor’s price poses fundamental challenges to the idea of price competition. In order to penetrate the strata of obfuscating language and seemingly disconnected laws and regulations of the marketplace, with its fluidity and its boundless opportunities, let’s mine one story to see why prosperity is eluding more and more people. In 2009, financier Warren Buffett decided to buy out shareholders in the BNSF Railroad. BNSF had been formed by the mergers of many railroads, the last two giants supplying the name: the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe.
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