We should be rooting for the success of the General Data Protection Regulation.
David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller.
He can be reached on Signal at ddayen.90.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
To Bring Drug Prices Down, Trump Proposes — Nothing, Really
Eschewing policies to lower costs here, the president tells drug companies to raise their prices abroad. (We’re not making this up.)
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump Moves to Gut the Post Office
His war on Amazon expands to include the right wing’s campaign to abolish America’s oldest—and still successful—public service.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Wells Fargo’s Overseer — Make That Over-Looker — Has Just Been Promoted
The leader of the San Francisco Fed has been tapped to head the New York Fed, the nation’s frontline bank supervisor. That doesn’t augur well.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Private Equity: Looting “R” Us
But the new tax law, unintentionally, could put a dent in private-equity scamming.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Corporate Scam that Even Trump Opposes: PBMs
The administration’s welcome proposal to break up pharmacy benefit managers
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Abusing Drugs
How CVS uses its market power to destroy competing independent pharmacies.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Big Tech: The New Predatory Capitalism
The tech giants are menacing democracy, privacy, and competition. Can they be housebroken?
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Rehabilitation of Antitrust
Time to overturn the revolution wrought by Robert Bork. We need antitrust more than ever.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Single Payer? How About a Profit-Driven Single Provider?
The CVS-Aetna merger creates a price-setting behemoth for medications.
