There’s another critical shortage of salt and water in a bag. Hurricane Helene is only the surface-level cause; it’s really about America refusing to learn the lessons of monopoly fragility.
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.
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