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Monopolies Make It Harder to Have a Baby

Fertility drug clomiphene citrate is in shortage. It's also been monopolized by a private equity-owned pharmaceutical firm. Why are there Martin…

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Open Thread: Memorial Day, the Civil War, and and Land Monopolies

It’s Memorial Day, a holiday founded after the Civil War to memorialize the soldiers who fought and died in that conflict, roughly 2% of the U.S…

May 29 •

How to Humiliate an Economist

Judge Leo Sorokin had enough of the experts of American Airlines and JetBlue last week, calling their testimony "unnuanced" "glib" "misleading" "bias…

May 27 •

Monopoly Round-Up: The Debt Ceiling and a Major Win against Airlines

It’s been an excellent week on the anti-monopoly front, with a major win in court, a big pharma case filed, and a key judicial nominee blocked. …

May 21 •

Martin Shkreli Was Too Honest

FTC Chair Lina Khan just put the business model of big pharma on trial with a challenge to a merger of Amgen and Horizon Therapeutics. And Wall Street…

May 19 •

Time to Break Up Hollywood

Hollywood is trapped in a death spiral, with streaming giants struggling to profit while smothering the industry itself. Finally the writers stood up…

May 14 •

Open Thread and Monopoly Round-up: Labor Unrest...

Today’s open thread is about the wave of labor unrest that may be happening soon. Or you can talk mergers, or debt ceiling, or whatever you want…

May 8 •

All Rise: How Judges Rule America

In a case involving Swedish conglomerate Assa Abloy's attempt to dominate smart locks, a Biden judge is acting like an anti-government management…

May 3 •

BIG by Matt Stoller

BIG by Matt Stoller

The history and politics of monopoly power.

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