Amazon announced a deal with Grubhub on Wednesday to enable Amazon Prime subscribers to have free Grubhub+ delivery for a year. Under this deal, Amazon Prime members who use an Amazon portal to sign up for Grubhub+ can have their…
Businesswoman Ella creates custom dresses to sell in her corner shop. Along the way, her sparkly stiletto-clad, non-binary, black fairy godmother flies to her aid. Even though she receives Prince Charming’s devotion after the ball, Ella instead tells him she…
Seattle, we have a problem. Amazon generated almost $12 billion in income domestically last year. But the company paid no corporate income tax. Instead, the federal government paid the company $129 million in tax rebates. Amazon, like so many other…
In a year that has put the untenable practices and politics of Silicon Valley’s tech barons under scalding sunlight, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has come in for a particularly nasty set of burns. Just to remind ourselves, let’s count them: First,…
Washington Milton Friedman was not only a brilliant economist — a Nobel Laureate in fact — but he was a gifted writer. In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom he presciently explained how healthcare costs were going to leap out…