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1/ This Walt Bogdanich Mike Forsythe 傅才德 work is a must-read business book, and one of the greatest works of investigative journalism I have ever read. I suggest buying the book; I can't do it justice in a few tweets. But a few key points. (And a WHOA at the end!)

Nice to be praised by one of the most relentless diggers for the truth in our business @greraldposner

Seen in the wild: the new paperback version of “When McKinsey Comes to Town” at ⁦⁦the ⁦ShakespeareandCoUSA⁩ store on Lexington Ave in NYC. ⁦Walt Bogdanich⁩ ⁦Doubleday⁩

No wonder drug prices are so high. Big Pharma must have been relieved that given all the Middle East media focus this past week, this news slipped by w/out any attention. Pharma spends far more influencing elected politicians + bureaucratic regulators than any other industry.

I’d somehow gotten out of the habit of Last Week Tonight. Just watched this latest, about McKinsey & Company and the management consultant racket. God what a magnificent TV show! If SPY Magazine has one perfect descendant, this is it. Thanks, John Oliver & HBO. youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUoj…

It may be true that guns don't kill people, people kill people. But it's for damn sure that people without guns don't shoot and kill people.

John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' censored by UAE broadcaster over references to Khashoggi's killing - this was ⁦Last Week Tonight⁩ covering McKinsey’s work in Saudi Arabia. ourmidland.com/entertainment/…

"The subject arose repeatedly at a recent conference of the International Precious Metals Institute in #Florida...'Most people in this room will see petty thefts and say, "Oh, we’re not involved in that." But everybody is.' " nytimes.com/2023/11/14/us/… via Walt Bogdanich

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Seen “in the wild” at the new ⁦Barnes & Noble⁩ (Barnes & Noble) at E 86th St in Manhattan. ⁦Walt Bogdanich⁩ ⁦Doubleday⁩

“ There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.” - literally the head of the climate conference (also head of state oil company) saying this.

I just finished Walt Bogdanich and Mike Forsythe 傅才德’s When McKinsey Comes to Town, which tears the veil off of post-War global capitalism and shows how one consultancy often has its fingers on both sides of the scale. These two quotes sum things up:

So how did I keep track of the corporate chess game the Sacklers played so brilliantly? Trisha Posner suggested converting a wall in our home/office into a white board. Almost ran out of space but managed finally to crack the labyrinth that I laid out in PHARMA.

A good idea, Mike.

Our investigation of what drug makers didn’t tell Alzheimer’s patients. nytimes.com/2024/10/23/hea…

This follows up on the 2021 story by Walt Bogdanich and me about McKinsey's extensive work with the world's biggest polluters, which the Guardian story cites (thank you!) . nytimes.com/2021/10/27/bus…

Walt Bogdanich Finally, if you want to get in depth on the deep ties between McKinsey and the fossil-fuel industry, we have an entire chapter dedicated to it in our book, "When McKinsey Comes to Town" penguinrandomhouseretail.com/book/?isbn=978…

Elon Musk threatens Pentagon leakers after NYT report on secret China war briefing – POLITICO politico.eu/article/elon-m…

NEW: MLB commissioner Rob Manfred pledged to keep the league’s values on diversity “unchanged.” But about a month later, the MLB Careers home page is devoid of any reference to “diversity.” nytimes.com/athletic/62218…

If you missed it the first time around, Walt Bogdanich and I took a closer look back in October. nytimes.com/2024/10/23/hea…