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McLean: Valeant's Pearson Weaponized 'Micro Truths' About Drug Profit Growth
“So Mike Pearson, right, had that argument, I'm gonna get it slightly wrong, but he said that most of Valiant's profit growth was not coming from increasing prices on drugs, it was coming from volume. And that turned out to be true if you looked at only their t…”
Bethany McLean Jun 9, 2020 ▶ 52:27 #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
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McLean: Enron's top 200 employees extracted $1 billion in options before bankruptcy
“There was this great number, and I'm gonna get it wrong, but it was from the Joint Committee on Taxation, which investigated Enron after the collapse, and they calculated that the top 200 employees of Enron got a billion dollars from exercising stock options i…”
Bethany McLean Jun 9, 2020 ▶ 35:17 #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
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McLean: Local newsrooms lost nearly 50% of employees over the past decade
“Local newsrooms have lost, what, almost 50% of their employees over the last decade.”
Bethany McLean Jun 9, 2020 ▶ 37:49 #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
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