Category Archives: Bidness

There Also Must Be Accountability for Institutions That Failed

Posted on August 4, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Or more accurately, for the people in those institutions that have failed us. In light of Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn’t like the jobs numbers, Commandante Atrios revisits some concern, from … Continue reading →

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A Problem ‘AI’ Does Solve: Section 174 of the U.S. Tax Code

Posted on July 31, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

And Trump is the reason the problem exists. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Every day, there’s a new story about how AI is letting bosses lay off workers. Some of this might actually be true, but it’s also about … Continue reading →

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The Grift Just Keeps Going On and On: The Lutnick and Sons Edition

Posted on July 25, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Remember all of those amazing tariffs we’re supposed to be getting? You know, the ones publicly supported by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick? Well, you’ll never guess who’s betting against those tariffs being constitutional (boldface mine): Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services … Continue reading →

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Senator Gillibrand Is Very Bad at Her DSCC Chair Job

Posted on July 2, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

As Trump manages to get closer to massively expanding ICE and creating his own personal force of ICE goons, head of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, Kristen Gillibrand has decided to spend much of the past week boldly crusading against … Continue reading →

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Mamdani Proposes a ‘PX for the People’ and the Washington Post Loses Its Shit

Posted on June 27, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

In a squealing, hyperventilating, pants-shitting editorial, the Washington Post editorial board* scribbles (boldface mine): Now, a man who believes that capitalism is “theft” is in line to lead the country’s biggest city and the world’s financial capital. His signature ideas … Continue reading →

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It’s Still the Emoluments, Stupid

Posted on May 12, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

As I noted recently, some asshole with a blog has been arguing that Democrats should have impeached Trump on the basis of the Emoluments clause since his first term*. Well, if the crypto bribery scheme wasn’t bad enough, we now … Continue reading →

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It’s the Emoluments, Stupid

Posted on May 5, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Ever since the first Trump administration, I have been arguing that going after Trump’s incessant violations of the Emoluments clause of the Constitution was the way to successfully impeach him, as it is a slam dunk case. Of course, he … Continue reading →

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Crony Capitalism Takes Hold Under Trump

Posted on February 21, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Feeling a whole lot of economic FREEDOM! right now (boldface mine): A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call in December from a lawyer at X. The message was clear, according to several people with knowledge of … Continue reading →

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How to Damage an Already Precarious Office Building Market

Posted on February 14, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

David Dayen describes how the effort by the DOGE-infiltrated General Services Administration (GSA) could lead to an even greater office building valuation meltdown (boldface mine): This would be exactly the wrong strategy for the moment, as Van Nieuwerburgh explained. A … Continue reading →

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This Is Why CEOs Get Paid the Big Bucks: The Walgreens Edition

Posted on January 16, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

In the last year or so, if you live in a city–the actual city, not the metro area–there’s a very good chance you’ve had to deal with your chain drugstore locking various items away behind plexiglass, supposedly to protect the … Continue reading →

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