American Apparel Trashes Rival, Tax Trouble, Cigarette Ad Scandal And More

May 31, 2013 Subscribe · Forward American Apparel CEO Trashes H&M American Apparel CEO Dov Charney has been on the warpath since the deadly collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh took the lives of more than 1,100 people in April, and now he has his sights on Swedish retail giant H&M. The outspoken executive thrashed H&M's business practices in a brutally candid podcast with Vice's Reihan Salam. Continue reading... U.S. Spending Drops As Americans Grapple With Higher Taxes Camel Accused Of Targeting Children In Magazine Ads 11 American Companies That Brought Jobs Back Home Huge Jackpot STILL Unclaimed McDonald's Admits The Truth About Its Salads Scandal-Plagued Petraeus Gets Job With Private Equity Firm Starbucks Used Bathroom Water To Brew Coffee? Adorable Cheerios Commercial Gets Racist Backlash Online Adorable Cheerios Commercial Gets Racist Backlash Online Costco's Profit Soars As Low-Wage Competitors Struggle Starbucks Used Bathroom Water To Brew Coffee? LES LEOPOLD How to Turn $10,000 Into $1,461,920? Find a Hedge Fund That Cheats How would you like to invest $10,000 and watch it grow over twenty years into $1,461,920? Well that's what happened at the giant hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, which made a 30 percent return for 20 years in a row. Continue reading... WILLIAM K. BLACK How Dare DOJ Insult HSBC's Crooks as Less 'Professional' Than Liberty Reserve's Crooks? Two of the largest banks in the world, which reap massive explicit and implicit subsidies from the government, were criminal enterprises for at least a decade. Each engaged in violations that were vastly larger than Liberty Reserve. Continue reading... DEAN PRAETORIUS Every Journalist Is a Social Media Editor, But Not Every Social Media Editor Is a Journalist Perhaps the rumors of the social media editor's demise have been greatly exaggerated. In our newsroom, at least, the role is very much alive and well. Continue reading... ROBERT REICH Reframing the Debate Even as the economy slowly recovers from the worst downturn since the Great Depression, government-haters and deficit-hawks are sticking to their same story: Americans have lived beyond their means and must now learn to live within them. The reality is quite different. Continue reading... MIKE LUX K Street Accountability It's hard to go back to representing bankers when you have just been prosecuting them. To get at the root of our problems, we're going to have hold K Street accountable, not just government. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003