Tag Archives: Racketeering

Big Pharma and the Rise of Gangster Capitalism

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds $8 per vial in competing developed-world nations and $38,892 in the U.S. That says it all. Thanks to decades of gangster films, we all know how gangster capitalism works: the cost of “protection” goes up … Continue reading →

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Racket of Rackets

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Luther Blissett

By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds If you thought banking in our time was a miserable racket — which it is, of course, and by “racket” I mean a criminal enterprise — then so-called health care has it … Continue reading →

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