If you want to read the laws that govern, you have to pay a steep price. Break a duopoly and this can be changed.
Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller is research director at the American Economic Liberties Project and the author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.
Posted inPolitics
Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Federal Reserve Independence Is the Problem
A weird, secretive, and unaccountable institution organizes our society, and nobody wants to talk about it.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Big Health Care Is Already Too Big
The UnitedHealthcare/Change Healthcare merger would make things even worse.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Remote Control
A civil rights lawsuit highlights how Comcast’s monopoly crushes media diversity.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Crisis in Financial Markets Began Before COVID-19
The Federal Reserve has been committing hundreds of billions to short-term lending markets for months. It’s time to make that power work for more than just Wall Street.
Posted inBooks
The Rise and Fall of Andrew Mellon
He was America’s most powerful businessman and the Treasury secretary throughout the 1920s. His corruption would lead to an impeachment inquiry.