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a42d1791b78e39d1961d4c631c00a2e5 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-cash-flow-20181021-story.html | A crucial Tesla financial report is coming. Let’s go under the tent to see how Elon Musk can boost cash flow | A crucial Tesla financial report is coming. Let’s go under the tent to see how Elon Musk can boost cash flow
Tesla’s mission is clear: “Accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.” It says so on the company’s website.
But to do that, Tesla must prove itself sustainable as an ongoing concern. A lot is ridin... |
5a0a82eddc5ac339150a5218ed384638 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-deliveries-sales-april-20190501-story.html | Tesla Model 3 remains the most popular electric vehicle in the U.S. — by far | Tesla Model 3 remains the most popular electric vehicle in the U.S. — by far
The Tesla Model 3 remained the bestselling electric car in the United States last month by far, according to estimates from website Inside EVs. Tesla sold 10,050 Model 3s in April, the website said; the runner-up, the Toyota Prius Prime, notch... |
38b0151b99c551033ab8e8dfb50377e3 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-design-chief-20180502-story.html | Tesla’s head designer on the Model 3: ‘It’s based on the idea of minimalism, that less is more’ | Tesla’s head designer on the Model 3: ‘It’s based on the idea of minimalism, that less is more’
Tesla’s finances are in an ugly phase at the moment, but the company still builds fun-to-drive, attractive cars.
Automobile Magazine recently gave the Model 3 electric sedan its 2018 Design of the Year award, calling the car... |
7af8c687290838ca778c2058a5e3a1fe | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-earnings-elon-musk-quarter-20190424-story.html | Tesla returns to losing money as revenue, cash and other key numbers tumble | Tesla returns to losing money as revenue, cash and other key numbers tumble
Elon Musk envisions a glorious future when fleets of Tesla robo-taxis earn money for Tesla owners and make all other automobiles instantly obsolete. The future, he said in a presentation this week, starts next year.
So far this year, however, T... |
9d1ed7109ebf6deb78f84f5f9538d8db | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-mercedes-20180904-story.html | Tesla stock falls as Mercedes unveils an all-electric SUV and Goldman Sachs says ‘sell’ | Tesla stock falls as Mercedes unveils an all-electric SUV and Goldman Sachs says ‘sell’
With everything else bearing down on Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. — a production mess, cash crunch and Twitter-induced drama — you can add looming competition in the luxury e-car market.
Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday unveiled the EQC, its fi... |
ab41fc6194dbe92450e51ecea7f021ef | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-model-3-chargers-20160601-snap-story.html | No free charging for Model 3? Tesla can explain | No free charging for Model 3? Tesla can explain
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk may have disappointed some prospective Model 3 owners by telling them that his new electric sedan will not include free supercharging at the proposed $35,000 base price.
The current Model S and Model X Teslas, which are sold with much higher MSR... |
e71b2027117a174146c726220ff87cbc | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-model3-quality-20180218-story.html | Some early owners of Tesla’s Model 3 are reporting quality problems. Do buyers care? | Some early owners of Tesla’s Model 3 are reporting quality problems. Do buyers care?
Mark Schey of Morristown, N.J., stepped into his garage a few mornings ago eager to hop inside his shiny new car — the much desired and currently rare Tesla Model 3 electric sedan. The one with the 15-inch touchscreen on the bare-bones... |
438dd428c51b7c9bec19a0af66c035f5 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-musk-annual-meeting-shareholders-20190611-story.html | At Tesla annual meeting, Elon Musk softens claims of a robotaxi fleet next year | At Tesla annual meeting, Elon Musk softens claims of a robotaxi fleet next year
Less than two months after touting a plan to put driverless taxis on the road, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday walked back the ambitious timetable.
On April 22, just days before Tesla turned to public markets to raise $2.3 billio... |
e746a4f6ac6008c81396e716fdbc5001 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-musk-stock-finance-20190521-story.html | ‘Dark clouds over Fremont’: Tesla enters survival mode as stock price drops | ‘Dark clouds over Fremont’: Tesla enters survival mode as stock price drops
Elon Musk’s growth story is looking more like a fable as Tesla Inc. enters survival mode.
Just over two weeks ago, Musk boasted to stock analysts and big investors that the company was on course to reach half a trillion dollars in market value.... |
95f6ebc02dbe03dfbe34a7247e7e24c2 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-new-jersey-christie-20140312-story.html | Tesla’s fight with Chris Christie could shutter New Jersey stores | Tesla’s fight with Chris Christie could shutter New Jersey stores
The strategy of Tesla Motors to sell its electric Model S sports sedan through company-owned stores took a hit this week when New Jersey required that autos sold in the state have to move through a middleman, namely a dealer.
At the urging of auto dealer... |
dee63543da6f53569e0c2d06f0ca9ea5 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-pasadena-china-20140829-story.html | Tesla on the move in Pasadena, and China | Tesla on the move in Pasadena, and China
Tesla Motors is expanding its presence in Southern California, and in China.
The company opened a new “store” Friday in Pasadena, on Colorado Boulevard, increasing its SoCal footprint.
The Pasadena retail outlet for the Palo Alto-based electric car company joins other area locat... |
2e428d47749ecaf7cd3d76045d6c4695 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-sales-may-model3-story.html | Tesla Model 3 sales rise in May, but demand still hasn’t fully recovered | Tesla Model 3 sales rise in May, but demand still hasn’t fully recovered
Tesla’s sales of its Model 3 perked up in the U.S. in May, according to estimates from the website InsideEVs, after a round of price cuts.
That goosed Tesla’s depressed stock price, which jumped 8% to close Tuesday at $193.60.
But Tesla car sales ... |
87b9883f5c416f3ccbd27713971b6ece | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-toyota-damages-20131026-story.html | Toyota settles acceleration lawsuit after $3-million verdict | Toyota settles acceleration lawsuit after $3-million verdict
Toyota Motor Corp.'s first loss in a sudden acceleration case, in an Oklahoma courtroom this week, could embolden attorneys nationwide who are looking to bring hundreds of similar cases.
Worse for the Japanese automaker, the verdict centered on the company’s ... |
02f9077ac591922e32261d843b9f9dfc | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-truecar-quarterly-results-20150806-story.html | TrueCar posts big 2nd-quarter loss; CEO Scott Painter to step down | TrueCar posts big 2nd-quarter loss; CEO Scott Painter to step down
Scott Painter, the often blunt founder and chief executive of TrueCar Inc., plans to step down as the company’s head this year after a search is conducted for a successor.
Painter has long been the public face of the Santa Monica company, which has roil... |
b2364b75a78f27568b2e3f1b9c7f911f | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-uber-driverless-future-20180328-story.html | As Uber death is investigated, its chief faces a crossroads on driverless tech | As Uber death is investigated, its chief faces a crossroads on driverless tech
When Dara Khosrowshahi took over as Uber’s chief executive last August, he faced a pile of festering problems. Near the top: The company’s troubled driverless-car program, then embroiled in a major lawsuit over trade-secrets theft with arch-... |
5f4bb2272ad0a6aa959cbf5dbcdf6848 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-uber-self-driving-20180319-story.html | An Uber robot car kills a pedestrian in Arizona. Will it slow driverless tests? | An Uber robot car kills a pedestrian in Arizona. Will it slow driverless tests?
A woman walking across an Arizona road was hit and killed by a self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. on Sunday — probably the first pedestrian fatality for the fast-growing movement toward driverless vehicles.
Tempe police said Elain... |
662442ff6b6fc7b69f06e63e9e53fdfd | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-uber-waymo-fight-20170515-story.html | Driverless cars are the future, and the ugly battle to dominate the field is on | Driverless cars are the future, and the ugly battle to dominate the field is on
It’s big. It’s nasty. It’s the fight for dominance in the burgeoning market for driverless cars — and the service they’ll provide.
Alliances are forming. Competitors are bulking up. The gloves are coming off.
There are accusations of subter... |
10220d68c1e01480090de14fc336643f | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-volkswagen-dealers-emissions-scandal-20150928-story.html | Volkswagen dealers paralyzed by emissions scandal | Volkswagen dealers paralyzed by emissions scandal
Lost in the flurry of corporate malfeasance and consumer outrage over the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal is another victim -- the Volkswagen dealer.
Neither employed by Volkswagen nor legally liable for the auto manufacturer’s misdeeds, VW dealers find themselves... |
b75f555040007435ef7b2abb2c753978 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-volkswagen-emissions-fines-20170421-story.html | Volkswagen to pay $2.8-billion criminal fine in U.S. diesel emissions scandal | Volkswagen to pay $2.8-billion criminal fine in U.S. diesel emissions scandal
A federal judge on Friday ordered Volkswagen to pay a $2.8-billion U.S. criminal penalty for cheating on diesel emissions tests, blessing a deal negotiated by the government for a “massive fraud” orchestrated by the German automaker.
U.S. Dis... |
2e838e449d195f0c05ec0cbcb375330d | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-volkswagen-probe-20150918-story.html | VW cheated on U.S. pollution tests for ‘clean diesels’ | VW cheated on U.S. pollution tests for ‘clean diesels’
Volkswagen called them “clean diesels,” branding them as the fun-to-drive alternatives to hybrids as it dominated the U.S. market for the engine technology.
Turns out the increasingly eco-conscious buyers of the sporty German cars have been unwittingly pumping smog... |
1c97525a00f13139591c6c56c049ffe0 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-volkswagen-qa-html-20151007-htmlstory.html | Story So Far: VW admits to ‘chain of mistakes’ in emissions scandal: What you need to know | Story So Far: VW admits to ‘chain of mistakes’ in emissions scandal: What you need to know
Volkswagen executives released more details Thursday about the company’s global emissions scandal, saying that even after a fix for the U.S. nitrogen oxide emissions was available, it was not used.
Describing the process as a “wh... |
875604fa16edf8146f26799814bffcaa | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-vw-hearing-20151009-story.html | VW exec blames ‘a couple of’ rogue engineers for emissions scandal | VW exec blames ‘a couple of’ rogue engineers for emissions scandal
A top Volkswagen executive on Thursday blamed a handful of rogue software engineers for the company’s emissions-test cheating scandal and told outraged lawmakers that it would take years to fix most of the nearly half million vehicles affected in the U.... |
c3a0a4ddd9653c00686f2be36375f136 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-waymo-one-20181205-story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fbusiness+%28L.A.+Times+-+Business%29 | Waymo One, the first commercial robotaxi service, is now picking up passengers in Arizona | Waymo One, the first commercial robotaxi service, is now picking up passengers in Arizona
Robot cars are now officially a real business. Waymo on Wednesday launched a commercial robot ride-hailing service in Arizona called Waymo One.
Like Uber or Lyft, customers will summon a ride with a smartphone app. But in this cas... |
c52a1c9626e1a15647dcd0e95f990198 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-zero-motorcycle-review-20170422-story.html | Review: Zero DS: A plug-in electric commuter bike that is a rarity in the two-wheeled world | Review: Zero DS: A plug-in electric commuter bike that is a rarity in the two-wheeled world
Battery electric automobiles have broken most of the barriers to ownership, even if they haven’t broken sales records.
Tesla overcame the performance and luxury hurdles with its sleek Model S. The Chevrolet Bolt EV smashed previ... |
82f6fd58ff180b135db3f1fc7b839849 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-takata-recall-20160527-snap-story.html | Largest-ever U.S. auto recall gets bigger: 12 million more vehicles with Takata air bags ordered back | Largest-ever U.S. auto recall gets bigger: 12 million more vehicles with Takata air bags ordered back
Eight automakers are recalling more than 12 million vehicles in the U.S. to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.
Documents detailing recalls by Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru, Fe... |
c0a9677601c4d9a5d50fd4d93d7e9937 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-tesla-subsidies-20160406-story.html | Government subsidies may be gone before most buyers can get a Tesla Model 3 | Government subsidies may be gone before most buyers can get a Tesla Model 3
Pre-orders for the Tesla Model 3 have topped 276,000, with buyers lured by the electric vehicle’s coolness factor, sleek and low profile, $35,000 starting price — and the promise of thousands of dollars in government incentives.
But before cust... |
495dc6f8c221c0b1fe37af2f818c7397 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-uber-arizona-ntsb-20180524-story.html | Uber chose to disable emergency braking system before fatal Arizona robot car crash, safety officials say | Uber chose to disable emergency braking system before fatal Arizona robot car crash, safety officials say
The automated emergency braking system on an Uber robot test car was turned off when the vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in March, according to federal investigators.
The car’s sensor system was oper... |
2936f73561fa549e8f2795ec7ff85f32 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-uber-waymo-settlement-20180209-story.html | Uber reaches settlement with Waymo in dispute over trade secrets | Uber reaches settlement with Waymo in dispute over trade secrets
After four days of blistering testimony that detailed the alleged theft of Waymo computer files and trade secrets — and Uber’s reaction to it — Uber threw in the towel.
Under a settlement announced Friday, Uber said it has agreed to pay $245 million in Ub... |
11c1647e062140d4c1bfa6d3f770fedb | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-volkswagen-emissions-20160422-story.html | Volkswagen to take $18.2-billion hit on emissions scandal | Volkswagen to take $18.2-billion hit on emissions scandal
Carmaker Volkswagen on Friday capped two grim days for the German auto industry by revealing that its diesel emissions cheating cost it a chunky $18.2 billion for 2015 alone — and that’s likely only a part of the total bill.
The revelation last September from U.... |
983bcb13275f90912fe767349a704507 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-volkswagen-legal-20151003-story.html | Race is on to file suits against VW | Race is on to file suits against VW
Volkswagen’s stunning admission that it rigged its diesel cars to pass emissions tests is setting up one of the largest, costliest legal cases in U.S. history.
And it could all be played out in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles.
More than 230 federal class-action lawsuits have been ... |
09e77aa31a3b8e4f8833f1380ee24b3b | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-vw-dealers--20160825-snap-story.html | VW and dealers reach tentative settlement in emissions-cheating scandal | VW and dealers reach tentative settlement in emissions-cheating scandal
Volkswagen continues to make amends, reaching a tentative agreement with its U.S. dealers to compensate them for losses they suffered as a result of the automaker’s emissions cheating scandal, attorneys for VW and dealers told a federal judge Thurs... |
fb20f7355b76e3a64a2ec49d66e1086f | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-hy-throttle27jun27-story.html | Tomos moped is still tootling along | Tomos moped is still tootling along
IT’S the vegan of motorbikes -- lean, green and more than a little anemic. I’m talking about the moped, a humble, less-than-2-horsepower machine that cranks no more than 30 mph and weighs less than I do.
There’s only one moped manufacturer that meets the EPA’s current requirements to... |
3c08be761c551ea061a7079e8753232e | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/laautoshow/la-fi-hy-disappearing-stick-shift-20161115-story.html | The disappearing stick shift: Less than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions | The disappearing stick shift: Less than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions
Visitors to the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show will see supercars, hoverboards, self-propelling luggage and all manner of new transportation options.
But they’ll be hard pressed to find a clutch pedal or a stick shift. Availab... |
a74569ca6ed7e3b299204bc477a1c246 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2019-10-17/gm-strike-will-continue-until-workers-vote-union-officials-decide | GM strike will continue until workers vote, union officials decide | GM strike will continue until workers vote, union officials decide
Striking General Motors Co. workers will stay on the picket lines for several more days until they vote on a tentative contract agreement with the company.
Factory-level officials from the United Auto Workers union voted to recommend the agreement to me... |
aebdcf3ecbd5578da356d1611b174f37 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2019-10-23/gm-strike-few-factories-workers-voting-uaw | GM strike’s fate hinges on a few factories’ workers | GM strike’s fate hinges on a few factories’ workers
A tentative agreement between General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers union to end a more than five-week strike hinges on ratification by a handful of large branches, including a pickup-truck plant in Flint, Mich., that voted on the deal Wednesday.
The factory’... |
689fb2c78654f5ae55171ed26aa21b75 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2019-10-25/general-motors-workers-ratify-contract-ending-40-day-strike | General Motors workers ratify contract, ending 40-day strike | General Motors workers ratify contract, ending 40-day strike
General Motors Co. workers voted 57.2% in favor of a new contract with the company, bringing an immediate end to a contentious 40-day strike that paralyzed the automaker’s U.S. factories.
Members of the United Auto Workers union voted 23,389 in favor of the d... |
58d52f0543759e05c2fa0edfaa011240 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2019-10-29/tesla-u-s-sales-sank | Tesla’s third-quarter U.S. sales sank nearly 40%, filing reveals | Tesla’s third-quarter U.S. sales sank nearly 40%, filing reveals
Tesla Inc.’s surprise profit in the third quarter came despite a drop of almost 40% in revenue from customers in the United States — its largest market.
The electric automaker’s U.S. sales plummeted to $3.13 billion in the latest quarter, down from $5.13 ... |
8469a664b2f7edd0d385fa5c85c00e06 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2019-10-30/ford-and-united-auto-workers-reach-tentative-contract-agreement | Ford Avoids a Strike, while GM’s suppliers are still reeling | Ford Avoids a Strike, while GM’s suppliers are still reeling
Ford Motor Co. managed to avoid a strike when it reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers on a U.S. labor contract Wednesday, but suppliers to General Motors Co. are still suffering from the six-week walkout that halted production at more th... |
bfff24c2f59e97462193ca5ce717f3ed | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2019-10-31/fiat-chrysler-and-peugeot-agree-to-merge | Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot agree to merge, creating world’s fourth-biggest carmaker | Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot agree to merge, creating world’s fourth-biggest carmaker
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and France’s PSA Peugeot said Thursday that they have agreed to merge. The combination would create the world’s fourth-largest automaker with enough scale to confront big shifts in the industry, including a race... |
bfe8cf4388e5ef96cf8b83b4f9c524e8 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2019-11-13/tesla-picks-germany-for-its-european-factory-and-elon-musk-drops-the-news-in-style | Tesla picks Germany for its European factory, and Elon Musk drops the news in style | Tesla picks Germany for its European factory, and Elon Musk drops the news in style
Elon Musk picked a glitzy event in Germany, a few hours’ drive from the birthplace of the internal combustion engine, to drop the news before some of the world’s biggest car bosses: Tesla Inc. plans to set up shop in their backyard.
The... |
628d3e9039f185502fd97b38173c083d | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2019-11-22/auto-show-electric-suvs | EVs have a sales problem. One possible solution: Make them bigger | EVs have a sales problem. One possible solution: Make them bigger
Automakers have a sales challenge: How can they persuade U.S. car buyers, addicted to gas-guzzling SUVs, to start buying electric vehicles in quantity?
Their solution is on display at this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show, which opens to the public today: Bu... |
6f5b3a5da4847feb2d4b73a1ec9493b5 | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2020-01-23/auto-makers-trump-face-new-pressure-not-to-ease-mileage-rules | Automakers and Trump face new pressure not to ease mileage rules | Automakers and Trump face new pressure not to ease mileage rules
Environmentalists and consumer advocacy groups are castigating automakers for supporting the Trump administration’s effort to relax fuel-economy standards amid fresh warnings from a Democratic leader that the plan won’t deliver promised safety benefits an... |
fee72f620100a148efa842f7ea75bfbf | https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2020-02-13/tesla-plans-2-billion-stock-offering-as-elon-musk-seizes-on-surge | Elon Musk plans $2-billion stock offering as Tesla acknowledges SEC probe | Elon Musk plans $2-billion stock offering as Tesla acknowledges SEC probe
Tesla Inc. is selling more than $2 billion of common stock, taking advantage of its surging shares just two weeks after Chief Executive Elon Musk said raising capital didn’t make sense.
Assuming underwriters exercise their option to purchase addi... |
6f2b28dfa38d5f32dd01c4fcc2ed8d3a | https://www.latimes.com/business/fi-worker-pay-outlook-20151228-story.html | Worker salaries are poised to climb in 2016 | Worker salaries are poised to climb in 2016
American workers are poised in 2016 to finally get what they’ve been missing for years: higher salaries.
Even as the recovery from the Great Recession brought booming corporate profits, most workers’ salaries have barely kept up with inflation. But now, as the nation edges ev... |
571090cdd311b92530a2b14dc823ca0e | https://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-covered-california-health-rates-20141002-story.html | California regulators clear Obamacare rates, hold off on networks | California regulators clear Obamacare rates, hold off on networks
California regulators won’t challenge the next round of health insurance rate increases in the state exchange, but insurers’ narrow networks of doctors and hospitals are drawing tougher scrutiny.
The state’s two insurance regulators didn’t find proposed ... |
3c1f98619c32c91fee31e097701b4adf | https://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-medical-prices-20120527-story.html | Many hospitals, doctors offer cash discount for medical bills | Many hospitals, doctors offer cash discount for medical bills
A Long Beach hospital charged Jo Ann Snyder $6,707 for a CT scan of her abdomen and pelvis after colon surgery. But because she had health insurance with Blue Shield of California, her share was much less: $2,336.
Then Snyder tripped across one of the little... |
454b28fd81e32f288796bfc62fb2baea | https://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-obamacare-california-enrollment-20150113-story.html | New Obamacare enrollments in California top 217,000 | New Obamacare enrollments in California top 217,000
California’s health insurance exchange said 217,146 people have newly signed up for Obamacare coverage after nearly two months of open enrollment.
The Covered California exchange said Tuesday the number of applications slowed during the holidays, but it remains confid... |
0a57e04244a6002d160fd7c63ae89ae7 | https://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-obamacare-network-probe-20151103-story.html | California fines top health insurers for overstating Obamacare networks | California fines top health insurers for overstating Obamacare networks
California regulators fined two insurance giants for overstating their Obamacare doctor networks and said the companies will pay millions of dollars in refunds to patients who paid too much for care.
The state’s Department of Managed Health Care le... |
4d606a712e38d741420fc2644261cd7e | https://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-obamacare-rates-20150727-story.html | Obamacare rates to rise 4% in California for 2016 | Obamacare rates to rise 4% in California for 2016
California’s Obamacare exchange negotiated a 4% average rate increase for the second year in a row, defying dire predictions about health insurance sticker shock across the country.
The modest price increases for 2016 may be welcome news for many of the 1.3 million Cali... |
17cf37005ac538b2db183ce365bda08b | https://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-na-obama-healthcare-20130607-story.html | Obama cites California to tout his healthcare law | Obama cites California to tout his healthcare law
[Updated, 10:56 a.m. June 7: SAN JOSE – President Obama on Friday morning held up California as an example of how his healthcare law will help consumers, citing the state’s progress getting health insurers to offer better plans at affordable prices.
“A lot of opponents ... |
59bd7650924a1872a51f22ddadb0a436 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20150329-column.html | Supreme Court ruling puts state regulatory boards in crosshairs | Supreme Court ruling puts state regulatory boards in crosshairs
Want to get paid for shampooing someone’s hair? In California, you may need to have at least nine months of experience and pass a licensing test overseen by the state barbering and cosmetology board, whose members include salon professionals.
Do you clean ... |
8236f0406603e636a6bfd289aca3cf7c | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20150816-column.html | Count the bad ideas in California pension overhaul proposal | Count the bad ideas in California pension overhaul proposal
Along with taxation and immigration, one political issue that never seems to go away is the cost of public employees, especially their pensions.
Public retirement plans are consistently blamed for local and state budget woes. Any time a community runs into fis... |
13e65a90a6b03ea1eff75c52f431aaa4 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20160213-column.html | Column: Do customers still want landlines? Telecom industry doesn’t want anyone to hear the answer | Column: Do customers still want landlines? Telecom industry doesn’t want anyone to hear the answer
The deregulation lobby operates on faith — the faith that government regulation is unnecessary because the magic of competition is all that’s needed to keep consumer prices under control.
But is it so?
California has been... |
4dcfe875a98120dc3455b840c8d62c26 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-3-states-20180622-story.html | Column: Venture investor Tim Draper is back with a pointless plan to split California three ways | Column: Venture investor Tim Draper is back with a pointless plan to split California three ways
The late Robin Williams used to have a great line about how “cocaine is God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money.” But it’s a new day and a different world now. Here in California, it may be more accurate to sa... |
5ab04b1d6c948a0d8805508fc72bdfdd | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aca-stats-20180703-story.html | Column: Trump’s own figures show that Obamacare is working well for the vast majority of enrollees | Column: Trump’s own figures show that Obamacare is working well for the vast majority of enrollees
President Trump brags that he has “gutted” the Affordable Care Act, but statistics released this week by his own Department of Health and Human Services show that it’s holding up well against his onslaught, with nearly 90... |
30f8a1dee69b900e73a242753740eb35 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-acosta-minimum-wage-20190503-story.html | Column: Trump’s Labor secretary comes out against giving workers a raise | Column: Trump’s Labor secretary comes out against giving workers a raise
Alexander Acosta may bear the title of U.S. Secretary of Labor, but you wouldn’t know it from the policies he has implemented as head of the one Cabinet-level department explicitly devoted to the welfare of American workers.
Since taking office in... |
8a185ebc44688cd5a8156feb6b6d67ac | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-aetna-obamacare-20170123-story.html | Column: U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting Obamacare | Column: U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting Obamacare
Aetna claimed this summer that it was pulling out of all but four of the 15 states where it was providing Obamacare individual insurance because of a business decision — it was simply losing too much money on the Obamacare ... |
ed4f127bbedc1fb55d5cec659cf2e076 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-amazon-new-york-20190214-story.html | Column: Amazon’s pullout from New York shows that it misplayed a bad, and expensive, hand | Column: Amazon’s pullout from New York shows that it misplayed a bad, and expensive, hand
Well, that should show them.
Stung by intensifying opposition to a $3-billion incentive handout from New York city and state, Amazon on Thursday abruptly canceled its plans to build a new half-headquarters complex in the New York ... |
310a154503c2ee22b85a39e1a3fbc6e7 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-anti-abortion-infant-mortality-20190515-story.html?_amp=true | States with the worst anti-abortion laws also have the worst infant mortality rates | States with the worst anti-abortion laws also have the worst infant mortality rates
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, since it’s a relationship that’s been known for years, but the states with the harshest restrictions on abortions also have the worst infant mortality rates.
The correspondence is unmistakable, and not... |
072b5e00d0ee1e9c2f6d21162b96c9b6 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-iowa-20170825-story.html?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_content%3BDHSmS3%2BuRSK5M8dpNDfX9w%3D%3D&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_content%3BJSubtC7YS6OLcBfdQb3UdA%3D%3D | Column: Apple breaks new ground in squeezing locals for huge tax breaks while offering almost no jobs | Column: Apple breaks new ground in squeezing locals for huge tax breaks while offering almost no jobs
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and the mayor of the tiny suburban town of Waukee (pop. 19,284) basked in the glory of sharing a podium with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday. They came together to announce that Apple would build ... |
ac046752729d2602dd20a5d4456810ce | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-att-price-rise-20190318-story.html | Column: AT&T raises DirecTV Now prices, making chumps of those who backed Time Warner merger | Column: AT&T raises DirecTV Now prices, making chumps of those who backed Time Warner merger
From the day in 2016 when AT&T announced its $85.4-billion merger with Time Warner, through three years of antitrust wrangling over the deal, the big telecommunications company promised that it would mean lower prices and more ... |
7a7bc672320f9d7a4516f0f3835d18e7 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-azar-medicaid-20190401-story.html | Column: Health Secretary Azar’s attacks on Obamacare make him Trump’s most dangerous Cabinet member | Column: Health Secretary Azar’s attacks on Obamacare make him Trump’s most dangerous Cabinet member
The contest for worst Cabinet member of the Trump administration is what we might call “competitive.”
How to choose among Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who was last seen trying to defund the Special Olympics, and Home... |
a6f3293a6d8924a2bacf63c91e492923 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-ban-medical-20170201-story.html | Column: Another casualty of Trump’s Muslim ban: U.S. medical training and rural healthcare | Column: Another casualty of Trump’s Muslim ban: U.S. medical training and rural healthcare
The chaos among immigrant families and at airports wreaked nationwide by President Trump’s executive order barring nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States has been well documented. Not as well... |
3fd986cbc7603332c74f89ab1568b7d0 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-bernhardt-endangered-20180813-story.html | Column: This Trump official used to be a farm industry lobbyist. Now he’s attacking the Endangered Species Act | Column: This Trump official used to be a farm industry lobbyist. Now he’s attacking the Endangered Species Act
When President Trump nominated David Bernhardt for a top-level post at the Interior Department, environmentalists and water experts could see trouble ahead. They feared that Bernhardt would bring to the post o... |
be06f4fb09bfc21cf15c34b3254e8176 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-bernhardt-ethics-investigation-20190415-story.html | Column: Interior Department says it’s investigating Bernhardt conflicts — days after he wins confirmation | Column: Interior Department says it’s investigating Bernhardt conflicts — days after he wins confirmation
The Interior Department’s office of inspector general disclosed Monday that it has opened a formal investigation into alleged ethical conflicts by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for natural r... |
0075210442190a809305477c083973ef | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-bitcoin-price-20170905-story.html | Column: Bitcoin’s price hit $5,000 last week. It’s still a dumb investment | Column: Bitcoin’s price hit $5,000 last week. It’s still a dumb investment
Late last week, I noticed a spike in what we might think of as a certain financial index. It wasn’t the trading in a financial instrument per se, but in the online traffic in a column I had written in December 2013. The column examined the recen... |
e94aeb54e2cec271cd92f67de044afb6 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-blahous-medicare-20180730-story.html | Column: How a libertarian analyst inadvertently made a good case for Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All | Column: How a libertarian analyst inadvertently made a good case for Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All
In this corner, Bernie Sanders, the former presidential candidate whose Medicare for All Act has become a rallying point for advocates of single-payer healthcare.
In that corner, Charles Blahous, an economics analyst w... |
61e0be7dffa118904e7dd94ad621f294 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-blahous-trustee-20160509-snap-story.html | Column: Has President Obama appointed a fox to guard the Social Security henhouse? | Column: Has President Obama appointed a fox to guard the Social Security henhouse?
Charles P. Blahous III has been a prominent figure in policy debates about Social Security for about 15 years. He was executive director of President George W. Bush’s 2001-2002 Commission to Strengthen Social Security, which aimed to pri... |
00cd625fc557d0073c6f51064aa7e373 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-captrade-20180111-story.html | Column: No longer termed a ‘failure,’ California’s cap-and-trade program faces a new critique: Is it too successful? | Column: No longer termed a ‘failure,’ California’s cap-and-trade program faces a new critique: Is it too successful?
Sometimes it seems as if California’s cap-and-trade program can’t catch a break.
It wasn’t so long ago that critics were blasting the program as a failure. Its fortunes seemed to hit bottom at the state’... |
860281c29358d085eb849c14d1bf511d | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-ceo-payoff-20170322-story.html | Column: The GOP’s tax cut for healthcare CEO pay is a bigger ripoff of taxpayers than it first seemed | Column: The GOP’s tax cut for healthcare CEO pay is a bigger ripoff of taxpayers than it first seemed
As the House of Representatives prepares to vote Thursday to repeal the Affordable Care Act, there’s a new estimate of the cost of one of its hidden provisions, a rollback of rules designed to restrain executive pay at... |
ba353db6bef11f2e08be5a1b4d446d0f | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-charter-cable-20160513-snap-story.html | Column: Charter Communications abuses customer rights, wins approval for big cable merger anyway | Column: Charter Communications abuses customer rights, wins approval for big cable merger anyway
Government approval of a merger that creates the second-largest cable and Internet service behemoth in the country is a rich prize that shouldn’t be handed out casually.
So it’s proper to ask why the Federal Communications ... |
7c799966c4081d1969fe7cd99f8d3418 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-chinese-immigrants-history-20190405-story.html | Column: Chinese immigrants helped build California, but they’ve been written out of its history | Column: Chinese immigrants helped build California, but they’ve been written out of its history
In 2014, the U.S. Labor Department formally inducted the Chinese workers who helped build the transcontinental railroad into its Hall of Honor, giving them a place in American labor history alongside union leaders such as Eu... |
d88b8962ae1339e5d18c468f0d747d34 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-climate-agriculture-20180309-story.html | Column: Study indicates that climate change will wreak havoc on California agriculture | Column: Study indicates that climate change will wreak havoc on California agriculture
The California we know is the breadbasket of the nation, producing more than two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts, including almonds, pistachios, oranges, apricots, nectarines and prunes, and more than a third of its vegetable... |
fe9b1f065690f8f29b644404f6b930e5 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-daily-stormer-hate-20170817-story.html | Column: Hate on the Web: Does banning neo-Nazi websites raise free-speech issues for the rest of us? | Column: Hate on the Web: Does banning neo-Nazi websites raise free-speech issues for the rest of us?
Many Internet users cheered when the Daily Stormer, a website openly devoted to white supremacy and neo-Nazism, was sent packing by its Web domain host, GoDaddy, following last weekend’s racist violence in Charlottesvil... |
d80a385e74026514f24154f2de20e958 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-david-bernhardt-ethics-questions-20190410-story.html | Column: See how the Interior Department has tried to stifle ethical doubts raised about its acting chief | Column: See how the Interior Department has tried to stifle ethical doubts raised about its acting chief
When it comes to acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s involvement in plans to loosen environmental restrictions on water flows for Central Valley farmers, a few things are clear and many more are murky.
What’... |
77165fa022410548f0367fcbbfbf64f0 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-deficits-entitlements-20180409-story.html | Column: Conservatives and business leaders worried about the deficit take aim at Social Security and Medicare | Column: Conservatives and business leaders worried about the deficit take aim at Social Security and Medicare
One would have thought that after saddling the U.S. economy with a tax cut costing $1.5 trillion over 10 years, conservatives and their patrons in corporate America would soft-pedal the usual attacks on Social ... |
b271ad3af4b8916c84d22f3d75ffce56 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-detroit-nuclear-20161003-snap-story.html | Column: 50 years after ‘we almost lost Detroit,’ America’s nuclear power industry faces even graver doubts | Column: 50 years after ‘we almost lost Detroit,’ America’s nuclear power industry faces even graver doubts
The history of nuclear power in the United States has been marked by numerous milestones, many of them bad — accidents, construction snafus, engineering incompetence, etc., etc.
One anniversary of an incident that... |
bc6b23e9ade4306ce55b5d603e4d82d0 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-dialysis-20180720-story.html | Column: Dialysis firms’ profits are obscene. What will happen if California tries to cap them? | Column: Dialysis firms’ profits are obscene. What will happen if California tries to cap them?
The worst maladies of the American healthcare system are related to corporate profits: The competition among insurance companies to avoid the sickest customers and extract the most money from the rest, and the rise of for-pro... |
b41b43f716720cc564e84277b23aca2b | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-dignity-ucsf-catholic-healthcare-20190419-story.html | Column: Catholic hospital chain Dignity Health defends its UC deal — with a lie | Column: Catholic hospital chain Dignity Health defends its UC deal — with a lie
Struggling to justify its proposed affiliation deal with UC San Francisco, the Catholic hospital chain Dignity Health complains that my recent column about this disturbing proposal “gives the wrong impression about how Dignity Health provid... |
788e07eb0576845d037d2abe829c1114 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-dodge-martin-luther-king-20180205-story.html | Column: That Ram Trucks Super Bowl ad shows it’s time to loosen the King family’s grip on MLK’s legacy | Column: That Ram Trucks Super Bowl ad shows it’s time to loosen the King family’s grip on MLK’s legacy
Amid the commercial miasma swirling around Sunday’s Super Bowl telecast, one advertisement actually stood out as something of a cultural and social event. It was an ad for Ram trucks, featuring the uplifting words of ... |
4451303649e15e051a7ee4fa85a6dd1b | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-epa-opendata-20170424-story.html | Column: Did ‘people power’ save a trove of EPA data from a shutdown by Trump? | Column: Did ‘people power’ save a trove of EPA data from a shutdown by Trump?
The notice over the weekend shocked scientific and technical researchers on environmental issues: The Environmental Protection Agency’s 5-year-old open data website, a trove of data on air, water and ground pollution and the sources of toxic ... |
5e2bb5b1fee56963f30249976f8d55d0 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-erectile-stem-cell-20180315-story.html | Column: Erectile dysfunction becomes the new frontier for stem-cell clinics hawking unproven ‘treatments’ | Column: Erectile dysfunction becomes the new frontier for stem-cell clinics hawking unproven ‘treatments’
Ben Greenfield is a self-styled men’s fitness guru who makes a point of his willingness to undergo just about any indignity in search of improved sexual performance.
That quest is what brought him last August to a ... |
52255974bcaf1bff6948b73f15da8245 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-exxonmobil-20170822-story.html | Column: A new study shows how Exxon Mobil downplayed climate change when it knew the problem was real | Column: A new study shows how Exxon Mobil downplayed climate change when it knew the problem was real
Big corporations are known for being two-faced — presenting a nurturing, maternal face to the outside world while ruthlessly pursuing profit on the inside.
But few have been charged with as much of a divergence between... |
e87fb2ab5ffa5f780c0041b1c40ee417 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-fda-stem-cell-20171117-story.html | Column: The FDA closes a huge loophole used by bogus stem-cell clinics, but delays serious enforcement for 3 years | Column: The FDA closes a huge loophole used by bogus stem-cell clinics, but delays serious enforcement for 3 years
There was good news and bad news in the regulatory initiative the Food and Drug Administration rolled out on Thursday, aimed partially at clinics marketing unproven stem-cell therapies directly to consumer... |
883d79906e12f2b646166b978ef2b55f | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-food-stamps-20180213-story.html | Column: Trump’s plan to replace food stamps with food boxes is his meanest idea yet | Column: Trump’s plan to replace food stamps with food boxes is his meanest idea yet
For some reason, conservatives have always harbored a special hostility for the food stamp program.
House Republicans voted in 2013 to strip $40 billion from the program over 10 years, which would have thrown more than 3 million people ... |
44d36deaa10ad0f773cb5e9192d7a7e3 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-gdp-20180727-story.html | Column: Trump is crowing about his 4.1% GDP figure — but he still gets his economic math wrong | Column: Trump is crowing about his 4.1% GDP figure — but he still gets his economic math wrong
As one might expect, President Trump was crowing Friday about the initial reading of growth in the gross domestic product. The figure came in at an annualized 4.1%, the highest rate since the third quarter of 2014.
Trump said... |
23df077755587ffb02b8885f349d62fc | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-gilead-profits-20171023-story.html?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b91be78441-MR&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-b91be78441-149680581 | Column: Gilead says drug profits must stay high to pay for ‘innovation,’ but 100% of its profits went to shareholders | Column: Gilead says drug profits must stay high to pay for ‘innovation,’ but 100% of its profits went to shareholders
With high drug prices still in the political crosshairs on Capitol Hill, pharmaceutical industry bosses are at pains to explain why a cure for hepatitis-C has to cost a budget-busting $1,000 per pill, o... |
93bd255b40834d0ce97ce1c2f3422a08 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-housing-crisis-20180330-story.html | Column: California’s housing crisis reaches from the homeless to the middle class — but it’s still almost impossible to fix | Column: California’s housing crisis reaches from the homeless to the middle class — but it’s still almost impossible to fix
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council gave housing advocates a lesson in why solving the statewide crisis in housing availability looks impossible to fix.
Voting 13 to 0 to oppose Senate Bill 8... |
f864dabc0ed82677d715c8d2851a051a | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-huntington-beach-housing-20190201-story.html | Column: To fight the housing shortage, California is right to come down hard on Huntington Beach | Column: To fight the housing shortage, California is right to come down hard on Huntington Beach
You almost have to feel sorry for the city fathers of Huntington Beach. Almost.
City Council members tried, for a while, to do the right thing by state law. In 2013, they approved a housing plan that conformed to state requ... |
3ed7a9026b163c1a3c7d88356a021e2b | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-icann-internet-20160927-snap-story.html | Column: No, Mr. Trump, the U.S. is not turning over control of the Internet to Russia and China | Column: No, Mr. Trump, the U.S. is not turning over control of the Internet to Russia and China
Technologies too complex to be easily understood by the layperson can be playgrounds for unscrupulous politicians. That’s become the case with the Internet’s internal digital plumbing, which has come into the crosshairs of S... |
ed0025a3d4d8acfcc606c1cf340cea56 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-inequality-20180807-story.html | Column: The truth about income inequality, in six amazing charts | Column: The truth about income inequality, in six amazing charts
It has become fashionable in recent years to downplay the growth of income and wealth inequality in the developed world, especially in the United States — and also its consequences.
It’s not surprising that the naysaying comes mostly from spokespersons fo... |
05d7be5cc3ef9e28e21db5e3ee419380 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-influencers-social-20190321-story.html | Column: ‘Influencers’ on social media: A new low in marketing history? | Column: ‘Influencers’ on social media: A new low in marketing history?
As tied in as I am to the high-tech zeitgeist, I must admit that until I spent a weekend bingeing on two documentaries about the disastrous Fyre Festival of 2017, the whole culture of social media “influencers” had flown under my radar.
Fyre, it may... |
9996c0b58216d345c53b6a875023b3c9 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-insurers-obamacare-20190508-story.html | Column: Health insurers learn how to make Obamacare work — for themselves and their customers | Column: Health insurers learn how to make Obamacare work — for themselves and their customers
After grousing for years about the individual insurance market created by the Affordable Care Act — and providing fuel for the ACA’s enemies — the health insurance industry is finding Obamacare to be a profit center.
The lates... |
bc8d0c40553a32de74fd54e7201eab5d | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-interior-science-20181210-story.html | Column: A devastating report details a ‘monumental’ assault on science at the Department of the Interior | Column: A devastating report details a ‘monumental’ assault on science at the Department of the Interior
Among the up-is-down, night-is-day practices of the Trump administration, one of the most dangerous and disturbing is its habit of turning America’s leading science agencies into hives of anti-science policymaking.
... |
8a9533b0f22d35890626337f765a6d37 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-judge-stem-cells-20190603-story.html | Column: Backing the FDA, a federal judge delivers a blow against bogus stem cell clinics | Column: Backing the FDA, a federal judge delivers a blow against bogus stem cell clinics
In an important ruling protecting public health, a federal judge in Miami on Monday backed the Food and Drug Administration in its campaign to rein in stem cell clinics offering unproven and potentially hazardous “stem cell” treatm... |
44470b2040c7593f88ab29dc202086ab | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-laffer-rich-states-20190424-story.html | Column: Stephen Moore’s ranking of states’ economies has been wrong for 12 straight years | Column: Stephen Moore’s ranking of states’ economies has been wrong for 12 straight years
If you happened to check out the latest ranking of states for their “economic outlook” published last week by the right-wing political group ALEC, you would be excused for concluding that California is deep in an economic hole and... |
db6bc615bb893dbade7892270fd7f0fc | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-lamar-smith-20171103-story.html | Column: Good riddance to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the most obnoxious climate change denier in Congress | Column: Good riddance to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the most obnoxious climate change denier in Congress
To our knowledge, Rep. Lamar Smith never brought a snowball onto the House floor like Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), to “prove” that climate change was a hoax.
But once you’ve said that, you’ve said everything. In al... |
a8a9928067d2a2c8365d916cec608448 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-lifelock-equifax-20170918-story.html | Column: LifeLock offers to protect you from the Equifax breach — by selling you services provided by Equifax | Column: LifeLock offers to protect you from the Equifax breach — by selling you services provided by Equifax
The ID theft protection firm LifeLock is certainly one of the big winners from the big data breach suffered by Equifax, which exposed the personal information of 143 million Americans to hackers.
LifeLock has be... |
3ae951edd69fe24c33b82878c4f40ef3 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-lyft-ipo-disclosure-20190307-story.html | Column: Lyft’s IPO disclosure shows it’s not close to profitability and has no good way to get there | Column: Lyft’s IPO disclosure shows it’s not close to profitability and has no good way to get there
Investing mavens who think of the big ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft as the next big opportunities to get in on the ground floor of a fabulously profitable stock must have been downcast by Lyft’s financial report ... |
f825ab9a248428ffb8b2cbfd7a6d6d94 | https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-medicaid-election-20171108-story.html | Column: Trump’s Medicaid chief attacked her own program on the very day it scored a huge win at the polls | Column: Trump’s Medicaid chief attacked her own program on the very day it scored a huge win at the polls
Republicans who think the American public is clamoring to repeal or roll back the Affordable Care Act have another think coming.
Voters in Maine overwhelmingly enacted Medicaid expansion for their state Tuesday, ov... |
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