After Hamas boosted its finances with crypto funding, over 100 members of Congress urged a crackdown on crypto money laundering, including two notoriously pro-crypto representatives.
Luke Goldstein
Luke Goldstein is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. He previously worked as a reporter/research associate at the Open Markets Institute and interned at Washington Monthly.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
One Night With Elvis and the Men Plotting to Take Back America
Fear and loathing at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual gala
Posted inLaw and Justice
Monopolist Secrecy Demands Are Overwhelming—and May Be Illegal
One anti-monopoly group contends that withholding basic financial information violates federal securities laws.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Google Erects Cone of Silence Around Antitrust Case
The company has successfully closed off testimony and exhibits in the public trial, limiting public discussion of its monopoly.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bloomberg Treats Telecom Industry-Funded Analysis as News
An op-ed about net neutrality by two Obama veterans, later reported on as news, was based on a white paper funded by two industry lobbying groups.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Q&A: Tim Wu on the U.S. v. Google Trial
Google claims its product is just superior. Says the former White House competition czar: ‘We now can see that a lot of those arguments are horseshit.’
Posted inLaw and Justice
Justice Department Says Google ‘Flexed Its Muscle’ as a Monopolist
On day one of the historic monopolization trial, the government put Google’s chief economist on the stand to show that the company valued default status on browsers and devices.
Posted inTransportation
A Potential End to Monopolizing the Rails
The nation’s rail regulator proposes that shippers receiving poor service can get a competitor to carry their goods.
Posted inPolitics
Upset House Loss Is a Major Progressive Disappointment in Rhode Island
Aaron Regunberg, the front-runner as recently as two weeks ago, lost to Biden administration official Gabe Amo. What went wrong?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Big Ag Opens Another Vein of Public Funding
Money from the Climate-Smart Commodities program, designed to reduce agriculture emissions, is going disproportionately to multinationals.
