Led by Amazon, which has poured $1.4 million into defeating socialist and progressive candidates, the city’s corporate sector wants to stop dead any talk of higher taxes funding public services.
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Why Doesn’t Congress Do a Comprehensive Investigation of Amazon?
Today on TAP: Turning a blind eye to abuse of market power
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Out With ALEC, In With Corporations Writing Their Own Laws
As the corporate bill mill wanes in influence, large businesses are taking matters into their own hands.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Unleash the Existing Anti-Monopoly Arsenal
Corporate power can be neutralized if federal agencies simply used the prodigious authority they’ve been granted.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Amazon Controls Its Marketplace
Amazon’s dominance doesn’t merely rely on competing with sellers on its platform. It extracts a deep cut from every transaction, at the expense of sellers and customers.
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.
Posted inWorking in America
The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon
With 2.5 million third-party sellers, it’s the largest employment-related class barred from using courts for complaints, and confined to the online retailer’s private law.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The General Store of the U.S.A.
Do Walmart and Amazon’s logistics triumphs reveal a path forward for a centrally planned economy?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Amazon Cashes Out
Faced with a nationwide backlash, the world’s largest online retailer pulls back its plan for cashless stores. For now.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
New York Labor Didn’t Shrink From Confronting Amazon
But unions were sharply divided about how to deal with the tech giant.