The headline happened to appear in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently, but you hear the sentiment everywhere: Wall Street's merger mania affects many on main street; shareholders win, but workers may pay the price. The lead of the story, I must say, was unusually loaded with the language of proletariat vs. robber barons: "As janitors sweep up the last of the champagne corks in executive boardrooms around the world, now may be a good time to examine what the latest wave of corporate mergers means for the rest of us." You can just imagine. At least in this view, the meaning is very grim.
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