Big businesses are getting even bigger thanks to a rise in corporate mergers. John Oliver explains why that could make you want to physically destroy your cable box. Watch as Emmy-winning Oliver does just that, saving us hundreds of dollars in damages by doing it ourselves. A minor improvement that might make the explosion more satisfying would be to seat a pompous CEO on the device at the time of ignition.
We as a country have forgotten the importance of antitrust laws, and we’re already living with the consequences. It’s shocking to learn how many ‘individual’ companies are in truth, owned by just one or two large corporations. Forget American start-ups, this is the age of record mergers. Watch as Jim Cramer from CNBC ‘Mad Money’ celebrates “Merger Monday.” It’s much more palatable when his buttons have all been changed to replicate human gaseous emissions. Juvenile – perhaps, satisfying…Very!