An expose of bad businesses and their unethical practices

Unstable situations like those which exist in Iraq and Africa in wartime are rife with opportunities for bad ethics leading to excessive profits. In economics, scarcity always leads to exorbitant pricing, via the mechanism of skewed supply and demand. Companies like Halliburton, Kellog, Brown & Root, and Blackwater have proven their lack of ethics by profiting unfairly from these situations.

The larger companies are not the only ones taking advantage of suffering. Smaller companies all over the world have profited from the plight of others over the last few years, reaping high profits via price-gouging. This is as true of local retailers, freighters, and service providers as it is of multinational profiteers like Halliburton.

The motivation in all of these cases, large and small, is simple greed. Some companies and some individuals have no scruples that would lead them to operate fairly when it is possible to operate unfairly. These people, and these companies, are the epitome of Bad Business. They should be harshly punished by whatever means are available. Too often, we react instead by avaerting our gazes from the travesties of simple justice.