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"Cha-Ching!" Lina Khan Attacks Private Equity in Health Care
FTC Chair Lina Khan is getting more aggressive, targeting individual Amazon executives, and seeking to stop a brazen scheme to monopolize health care in…
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Monopoly Round-Up: Labor Unrest Spiking
There’s anger in the workforce, with the main frustration focused on insufficient wages for workers in a time of inflation, contrasted with exce…
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Strikes and Bidenomics
The White House is trying to sell 'Bidenomics,' but poll after poll shows that the public is extremely unhappy with the economy. What does the public…
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Big Tech on Trial: How BIG will be covering the Google Trial
This newsletter is putting a reporter into the courtroom for the Google monopoly trial. You can get a daily update of the biggest antitrust case in a…
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Monopoly Round-Up: The Google Antitrust Trial Starts on Tuesday
On Tuesday the Google monopolization trial - the most important antitrust case in 25 years - will start. I’ve hired a journalist turned antitrus…
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Quick Read: Google Cares About Google's Privacy
From destroying documents to trying to stop a public feed of the antitrust trial, Google knows the value of its own privacy.
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August 2023
Monopoly Round-Up: Biden Takes a Real Swing at Private Equity
Today’s monopoly round-up is headlined by something you probably didn’t see unless you follow the business press, but is nonetheless far more im…
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Government Stupidity Is By Design
Unwinding forty years of booby trapped bureaucracies takes time, but it's happening. And the billionaires are noticing.
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Monopoly Round-Up: Does Big Tech Feel Untouchable Again?
Here’s your monopoly round-up for the week. Good News Back in January, I wrote up what looks like a Ponzi scheme behind private equity asset str…
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Make Hollywood Great Again
FTC Chair Lina Khan talks to Hollywood strikers. Meanwhile the Writer's Guild, and the chattering class in Tinseltown, begin calling for the break-up of…
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Monopoly Round-Up: The Weird Elite Disdain for Workers
Normally I try to pick out some themes out of the news, and something I’ve been noticing is an elite distrust and disdain for American workers a…
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How Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly Over Sports Trading Cards
Fanatics has rolled up power in all areas of sports merchandising. And now it's coming for baseball, football, and basketball trading cards.
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