Corporate and governmental hucksters intentionally cloak their schemes in convoluted obfuscations so that we commoners can’t really know what they’re saying – or doing – to us. That’s why our Hightower Lowdown team takes pride in regularly trying to deconstruct their arcane jargon, translating it into plain language. Recently, for example, I pointed out the slick deceit in Big Pharma’s assertion that its outrageously-high drug prices are just a factor of “core cost recovery.” Huh? […]