Nation Topics - Corporate Consolidation | The Nation

Supply chain shocks have already led to shortages of videotape and auto parts. Could food or medicine be next?

Paul Volcker, head of Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, nailed the cause of our financial hardship in a series of blistering remarks on the sorry state of our economy.

America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.

With assembly plant shut-downs and a massive layoff of 5,000 workers, GM has seen better days. Those include the 1950s, when GM was in trouble with the Senate for being too powerful, and accused of artificially raising prices and creating a monopoly in Detroit.

As corporations consolidate, they grab power from the
public. Here are seven modest proposals to give power back to the
public and avoid another Enron.

Las Vegas is capitalism stripped bare. If you're out of money, you're out of luck.

How does a fiercely anticorporate musician feel about participating in a
corporate entertainment system?

In the final triumph of free-market capitalism, farmers will become serfs.

Jeremy Rifkin wants to rock the world of the jaded reader: He predicts that we're entering a completely new--the final--stage of capitalism.

A Wall Street Journal poll of 350 major corporations found that the median compensation, including stock options, for CEOs last year was $2,635,799. That was a growth of 3.1 percent.