Kroger-Albertsons merger spotlights a popular private equity tactic
Cerberus Capital Management has long attracted controversy. Now the firm is trying to pull off a deal that is expected to face intense scrutiny from...
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Joe Nocera
Mask-makers are going out of business in repeat of boom-bust cycle that left the U.S. critically short early in pandemic
At first, the supply chain had broken down, leaving an opening. But Chinese companies determined to regain market share later began exporting masks below cost.
Facebook has only itself to blame for drastic remedy | Joe Nocera / Syndicated columnist
I’ve long believed that there is simply no other way to curb Facebook’s immense monopoly power. In the attorneys general complaint, the plaintiffs contend that...
Only Herb Kelleher could make an airline revolution this fun
Commentary | The former chairman and chief executive of Southwest Airlines, who died Thursday, did the near impossible: building, from scratch, a consistently profitable airline...
How to fix Tesla? Let Alan Mulally take the wheel | Commentary
Commentary: Elon Musk may be an innovation genius, but at Ford Motor and Boeing Commercial Airplanes before that, Alan Mulally has shown he is a...
Commentary: Microsoft’s turnaround could have started sooner
Some government bureaucrats in the antitrust department of the Justice Department might have had a better feel for how Microsoft could improve its business model...
Equifax should be regulated like a public utility | Commentary
Will this summer’s data breach involving 143 million of the credit bureau’s U.S. customers finally generate enough fear and outrage to cause Congress, the financial...