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Welcome to the Twilight of Big Tax Prep
PLUS: Rental housing price-fixing probes heat up.
Jun 5, 2024 • 
Pat Garofalo
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Welcome to the Twilight of Big Tax Prep
The Secret That's Driving Up Highway Costs
Corporate consolidation and shrinking public capacity is a bad combination.
Sep 11, 2024 • 
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Break Up Big Title Insurance
A handful of big firms reap huge profits on a mostly useless product.
Aug 2, 2023 • 
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The Car Rental Sales Tax Swap Scam
Car rental corporate consolidation, funded by you.
Feb 2, 2023 • 
Pat Garofalo
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States and the Coming Scam-Apocalypse
Reduced federal consumer protections will leave state governments in the lurch.
Feb 12 • 
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Meet the Private Equity Firm Squeezing America for Baseball Stadium Subsidies
Minor league teams, but a major league consolidation scam.
May 17, 2024 • 
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Meet the Private Equity Firm Squeezing America for Baseball Stadium Subsidies
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Big Tech's AI Blackmail
State and local data center extortion is going national.
Dec 18, 2024 • 
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Walmart's Monopoly Power Increases Poverty
And taxpayers end up paying for it.
Oct 17, 2024 • 
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When McKinsey Comes to Your Hospital
More corporate jets, less health care.
Jul 9, 2024 • 
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The Scourge of the Long Train
I read a very long report on long trains so you don't have to.
Sep 26, 2024 • 
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CVS Throws a Temper Tantrum
'We're taking our prescriptions and going home!'
Jun 18 • 
Pat Garofalo
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The 'Non-Profit' Hospital Industrial Complex
Large tax breaks, tiny community benefit.
Oct 7, 2024 • 
Pat Garofalo
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