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• Michael Hiltzik: Movie piracy, from the inside

  
  L.A. Land — Authority: 138
  Digital technology, which has brought us such boons to civilization as mashups of studio movies like " The Shining " and the cellphone videos without which TMZ.com wouldnt exist, has also jumped up movie piracy to a new level. As my column for Monday explains, the old standard of feature films being camcorded from ...
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• Michael Hiltzik: One hundred years of Peter Drucker

  
  L.A. Land — Authority: 138
  The basic text I used for the lessons from the oeuvre of Peter Drucker, the subject of my last column for calendar 2009, is "The Essential Drucker," a 2001 digest of Druckers writings dating to 1954, selected by himself. Its as good an introduction as exists to the clarity and breadth of this social philosopher and ...
  6 days ago

• Michael Hiltzik: PG&E buys itself a ballot initiative

  
  L.A. Land — Authority: 138
  The characteristic campaign photograph of Hiram W. Johnson , who served two terms as California governor and five as its U.S. senator early in the last century, depicted him in a three-piece suit and high collar, with his dukes up. It was in this spirit of battling Californias entrenched corporate interests that ...
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• Michael Hiltzik: The tax dodge under the Christmas tree

  
  Up to Speed — Authority: 124
  Theres no point pretending that sales taxes dont figure into a consumers decision about where to take his or her custom. The bigger the item the more important the sales tax rate . On a $25 hardcover, the difference between a purchase in Los Angeles County (9.75%) and Orange County (8.75%) comes to 25 cents. On a ...
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• Michael Hiltzik: The Toy District on the brink

  
  L.A. Land — Authority: 138
  The last time I visited the Toy District in downtown Los Angeles it was to meet with one of its patriarchs, Charlie Woo, who told me times were tough . That was at Christmastime 2003. Times havent gotten easier for many of the hundreds of merchants selling wholesale goods out of this 15-block neighborhood. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Michael Hiltzik: Biomedicine and generic drugs

  
  Up to Speed — Authority: 124
  Striking the proper balance between incentives for innovation and encouragement of competition has been an issue for lawmakers since the patent system was first devised. As my column for Thursday observes, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) achieved this beyond their wildest ...
  2 weeks ago

• I Spit On Your Grave (1978, Meir Zarchi)

  
  Cinemachine — Authority: 106
  An early target of Siskel & Eberts pompous national campaign against misogynist slasher movies (this from the guys who rated Evil Dead their "dog of the week") was Meir Zarchis Day of the Woman, rereleased in 1980 as I Spit On Your Grave. Had Ebert seen the film under the original title he might have gotten a clue ...
  2 weeks ago

• Michael Hiltzik: TARP and its discontents

  
  L.A. Land — Authority: 138
  I dont fully understand why the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, has become such a symbol of bad government anti-recessionary policy. No one who kept a close eye on the state of the financial system in September and October of 2008 can ever forget the feeling in the pit of their stomach that the entire system ...
  3 weeks ago

• Michael Hiltzik: The privatization of UC

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 561
  Attacking the University of California is a perennial political sport -- who can forget that Ronald Reagans heckling of Berkeley students was as important in launching his conservative political career as was the support of General Electric Co. ? But the system today faces greater peril than at any time since Gov. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thars gold in them shills! Fox raps Glenn Becks endorsement deal

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 763
  Filed under: People , Media Glenn Becks dual embrace of gold -- as an investment vehicle for his listeners and a personal moneymaking opportunity for himself -- has drawn boos from various journalism watchdogs. And now it looks like the talk-show hosts close relationship with one purveyor of gold coins has gotten ...
  4 weeks ago

• Michael Hiltzik: The lure of the (green) road

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 561
  The most encouraging sign that the country is getting serious about environmentally friendly automobiles is that politicians, always ready to embrace a public enthusiasm, are jumping on the bandwagon. My Monday column observes that political leaders from President Obama to Mayor Villaraigosa are trying to encourage ...
  4 weeks ago

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