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There’s always a corporate brochure that smells faintly of lacquer and breath mints. Optimas’ is tasteful, full of smiling factory […]

Customer Corner : Unmasked Bandit Industries

Listen I’ve written a few articles for TCAP now but I’ve never had a headline land so easily in my

Principal Financial Group dresses itself in polite corporate language and masquerades as an ethical outfit. Chip away at that varnish

You know those anonymous machines that shout at the market all night and then disappear before anyone can touch them?

Greed on Wheels, Funded by Your Taxes You think these corporations care about the planet? Fuck no. Cummins and Navistar

They used to trade on sheer arrogance and the scent of cleverness. Today they trade on what every big financial

They sell thrift and virtue in tidy brochures – low fees, index purity, a co-op model that sounds like someone’s

Ok so listen up, you lot. This one’s a joint partnership. Customer? Supplier? Fucked if I know. Barring starting a

They talk value and patience and calm voices on trustee calls – all the bullshit that makes pensions and endowments