Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Dangerous consolidation of the media is a trend that has been discussed by many people on many occasions, and many of us by now have heard the stat that in the U.S. just six media giants control 90% of all TV, news, radio and film. Now that Comcast is set to buy Time Warner, the situation is about to get that much worse.
Just days after being appointed to Trump's "Strategic and Policy Forum," JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon, has been named Chairman of Business Roundtable. Obviously, this is yet another prominent D.C. position for Wall Street just as Trump gets set to take the White House amid promises to "drain the swamp."
Per a press release posted to the Business Roundtable website, Dimon will take over the Chairman position from Doug Oberhelman, the CEO of Caterpillar, and will serve a two-year term that will last through December 21, 2018.
One year after Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders first hinted, on Twitter, that one of the main targets of their campaigns would be pharma and biotech companies in general, and high drug prices in particular, today as part of his extensive interview with Time, the President-elect, and the magazine's winner of the "Person of the Year" award for 2016 hinted that he, too, would focus on high drug prices.
One year after narrowly losing to Angela Merkel (and tied with ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), Donald Trump has finally won the 2016 Time "Person of the Year Award", the person - or idea - who according to the magazine has most influenced the news and the world in the past year, for good or ill.
“It’s a great honor. It means a lot,” Trump told NBC's "Today" show. "To be on the cover of Time magazine as the person of the year is a tremendous honor," added Trump, who in the past had predicted he would never win the honor.
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by Fergal O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of York