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A North Carolina company was sold to its 320 workers; India enables cheap substitutes for overpriced drugs; updates on US union membership in 2013; the myth of returning manufacturing to the US. Interview with Max Wolff dissecting the US economic “recovery.” Response to questions on states’ subsidizing movies, JP Morgan-Chase’s CEO Dimon’s $20 million pay for 2013 and Americans’ attitudes on inequality.
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