Executive Summary: There is strong evidence that Henry “Hank” Paulson (former Goldman-Sachs CEO and, more recently, United States Treasury Secretary) took some initiative in the case of Lehman Brothers (the downfall of which is discussed extensively in Wall Street’s Naked Swindle at RollingStone.com) and rigging the game to the advantage of Goldman Sachs (a direct [...]

… A couple of US senators have introduced legislation to eliminate the federal tax deduction on advertising for prescription-drugs. This could affect marketing budgets and the bottom line of many BDA’s to the tune of millions, and as I say in the chapter devoted to health care advertising in my latest opus… The Ubiquitous Persuaders, [...]

After spending an astounding $100 million to win friends and influence doctors, the drug producers withheld study results—for 21 months—that showed the drug did not work as claimed. Meanwhile, the two companies pulled in a whopping $5.2 billion in sales in 2007 alone. Later, three studies indicated that people who take Vytorin may be more [...]