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A Great Labor Explosion: Will Auto Workers Unionize in Trump Country?
Workers at a Volkwagon factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are now voting on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). Is this the restart of a…
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Monopoly Round-Up: Economics Acknowledged as Astrology by the NYT
Here’s today’s round-up for paid subscribers. Before I get to the good and bad news, I did a bunch of media this week on the problem of monopoly…
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The Silver or the Lead: How White Collar Crime Prosecutors Get Punished
Corporate defense lawyers have adopted a new strategy that not even the mob considered. When facing litigation from the government, file misconduct…
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Monopoly Round-Up: A Judge Can Break Up Google Right Now. Will He?
Google lost an antitrust case late last year to Epic Games. Now California judge James Donato is overseeing the remedy. Could that include a break-up?
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Apple Got Caught Censoring Its Own Regulator Lina Khan
Jon Stewart interviewed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on the Daily Show, and told the audience Apple blocked him from inviting her as a guest…
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Monopoly Round-Up: How Chain Restaurants and Hotels Collude to Screw You
An antitrust complaint around hotels suggest that what's happening in the economy is systemic price fixing. The Antitrust Division and the FTC are…
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March 2024

Explosive New Documents Unearthed On Live Nation/Ticketmaster
Congressman Bill Pascrell released a report today on precisely how Live Nation/Ticketmaster 'essentially defrauds' artists, consumers, and promoters…
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Monopoly Round-Up: How FTC Chair Lina Khan Cut Inhaler Costs to $35
The news of the week includes reverberations from the Apple antitrust suit, a drop in realtor commissions, a Biden nomination of a villain for a…
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Why the Apple Antitrust Suit Matters
Apple just got slapped with a major antitrust suit alleging a 'pattern of anti-competitive behavior' across all its product lines. And it lost $114…
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In Lake Wobegon, All Antitrust Enforcers Are Above Average
Was allowing Live Nation to buy Ticketmaster 'tough' enforcement? According to big law, yes.
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Monopoly Round-Up: Lina Khan Rips Boeing, UnitedHealth Group Breaks the Law
Lots of good stuff in today’s news round-up for paid subscribers. Two themes upfront. First, one of the biggest threats anti-monopolists face is…
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The TikTok Problem Is Not What You Think
Despite what you've been told, the U.S. government is serious about privacy and data. And the TikTok divestment is just one prong of a bigger strategy.
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