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2020 Election: Why I Voted How I Did

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments automotive industry, biden, billionaire class, billionaires, corporate debt, corporate subsidies, corporate welfare, covid, COVID19, covid19 pandemic, democracy, Donald Trump, economy, federal deficit, federal reserve, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, joe biden, millionaires, mobility, obama, obama administration, pandemic, pluralism, policy, politics, taxes, transit, transportation, trump administration, xenophobia

Unsurprisingly, rhetoric usually becomes increasingly political as we approach the 2020 presidential election. To paraphrase a staffer on Aaron Sorkin’s

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Corporations Hoard Cash– To No Public Benefit. Why Are We Still Giving Them Money?

April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments capital markets, capitalism, cash, consumerism, corporate debt, corporate welfare, corporations, productivity, tax, taxation

There are two notable points about the gargantuan COVID19 rescue bill recently passed by Congress. The first? It’s not enough.

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Will Jeff Bezos Be The Next Billionaire to “save” Detroit?

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon bid, corporate welfare, Detroit, economic development, gary, public subsidy, silver bullet

The water cooler topic du jour in Detroit is the grumbling about why Amazon won’t move here because the region

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