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Mexico City Notebook: Drug Gangs Tap Oil To Top Up Their Illicit Gains

February 18, 2018March 5, 2018 by Simon Simon

[Sample Record] Title: “Mexico City Notebook: Drug Gangs Tap Oil To Top Up Their Illicit Gains”, in Financial Times, May 16, 2017. p. 8. Abstract: In recent years, Mexican druglords have moved into the siphoning of petroleum products from the pipelines of PEMEX on a massive scale. A recent battle in Puebla involving 2000 troops […]

Table: A Century of Techopoly

January 31, 2018March 5, 2018 by Simon Simon

[Sample Record] Table: “A Century of Techopoly: Today’s Tech Companies Enjoy Market Shares Similar to Monopolies of Earlier Eras, 1896-2017”, in Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2018. p. A10. 1896: General Electric and Westinghouse: 75% of electric lamps; the firms cross-licensed their patents. 1904: Standard Oil: 87% of refined oil products. 1930s-1940s: E.I. Du Pont […]

Table: Business Empire: Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal

January 30, 2018March 5, 2018 by Simon Simon

[Sample Record] Note: This record illustrates use of the “Foreign Investment” descriptos, here FIFRANCE (“Foreign Investment in France”) and FIUS (“Foreign Investment in the United States”). Table: “Business Empire: Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Has Built A Vast Network of Holdings Across The World: Publicly Disclosed Stake In Major Companies”, in Wall Street Journal, December 23-24, […]