Ken Jacobson is a California-based journalist who has been a reporter and editor for a number of publications covering business, economics, and technology, and from 2007 to 2011 served as an investigator on the Democratic staff of U.S. House of Representatives’ Science and Technology Committee. He has been chief editor of two specialized newsletters, New York-based Metals Week and DC-based New Technology Week, and senior editor of a third, Manufacturing and Technology News, also based in DC; a former foreign correspondent, he reported from Paris for BusinessWeek and from Amsterdam for the Associated Press. He has also contributed to a half-dozen published reports of the National Academies’ Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, and authored the 1994 book Embattled Selves: An Investigation into the Nature of Identity Through Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he currently resides in nearby Alameda.
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Letter to SEC: How Stock Buybacks Undermine Investment in Innovation for the Sake of Stock-Price Manipulation
A comment on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule “Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization”
4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic
It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future
Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.