jeffrey immelt

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton Opened Her Door to Financial Supporters

Staff / Truthdig Nov 30, 2015 Official calendars obtained by The Associated Press show that while serving as secretary of state, the Democratic presidential candidate made herself available to dozens of influential fundraisers, loyalists of the former Clinton administration and her current campaign, and corporate donors to her family’s global charity. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What Capitalists Want for Christmas

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 23, 2012 A group of CEOs led by Macy's Terry Lundgren calling itself the Fix the Debt coalition is hoping for a deficit-busting austerity budget this holiday season -- not a program to create American jobs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

If a Republican Were President

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 13, 2011 If a Republican were president, there would be millions of properly coiffed middle-class Democrats and independents at those Occupy Wall Street marches, and no questions asked as to what they really want. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The New Corporate World Order

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 20, 2011 Of course it will be argued that multinational corporations have the right to arrange their businesses as they see fit in order to maximize profit. But if that is the case, do beleaguered American taxpayers have to foot the bill?Big government is big precisely because it is so active in so many costly ways in serving the interests of our biggest corporations. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Obama’s Fatal Addiction

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Mar 30, 2011 Maximizing corporate profits at taxpayers' expense is what top CEOs are good at, and after all it was Jeffrey Immelt who presided over GE when it got so heavily into the subprime mortgage business that it needed a government bailout to avoid bankruptcy. This was before Obama made him a trusted adviser.Overdrive, with CEOs like GE's Jeffrey Immelt shifting the gears, is what brought us so close to the brink. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )