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What Travis Kalanick’s meltdown tells us about Uber

1 Comment / Commentary, Uncategorized / Joe Cortright

As has been well chronicled in the media, it’s been a tough month for Uber. The company’s CEO, Travis Kalanick was vilified in the press for the company’s tolerance for sexual harassment of its female employees, and derided for his participation in President Trump’s business advisory council (from which he resigned after an estimated 200,000 […]

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The real welfare Cadillacs have 18 wheels

Truck freight movement gets a subsidy of between $57 and $128 billion annually in the form of uncompensated social costs, over and above what trucks pay in taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office. If trucking companies paid the full costs associated with moving truck freight, we’d have less road damage and congestion, fewer crashes,

March 2017

What Travis Kalanick’s meltdown tells us about Uber

The real welfare Cadillacs have 18 wheels

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