Fights over data centers and music venues show that resisting corporate power will have to go local in the age of Trump.
Ron Knox
Ron Knox is a senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Pandemic-Era Corporate Bullying
The Federal Trade Commission found that big retailers threatened to punish suppliers unless they got first dibs on food and household goods.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rollups: Monopoly on Tap
Reyes is the largest beer distributor in America, and rivals allege that it has used ‘strong-arm tactics’ to achieve dominance in California.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why Congress Must End America’s Merger Free-for-All
Aggressive anti-monopoly enforcement can only go so far without clearing out a thicket of bad judicial rulings and establishing new laws.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Monopolies in Meat: Endangering Workers, Farmers, and Consumers
Deregulation has led to Big Ag’s giant slaughterhouses, where COVID-19 is rampant and the supply chain grinds to a halt.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Monopolies, Trump, the Border, and Fascism
Concentrated corporate giants like Amazon and the private prison duopoly are sustaining Trump’s cruelties in the migrant camps.
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A Democrat Tries to Pull Off a Kansas Miracle
With Republican Representative Mike Pompeo gone to the CIA, Democrat James Thompson is hoping for the upset of all upsets in Tuesday’s special election in Wichita.