Reflections on a week in the age of corporate power
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Posted inHousing
Scandal-Plagued Rent-Setting Software Execs Presented as Neutral Experts
Amid an ongoing Department of Justice inquiry, the Texas-based real estate tech company RealPage is prized for its analysis in mainstream media.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Activist Hedge Fund Turns the Screws at NRG Energy
Elliott Management is asking FERC to let it purchase up to one-fifth of the common stock in a Texas utility.
Posted inTAP
The Alliance to Rein In Big Tech
Today on TAP: Give the platform monopolies credit for one thing. They are helping to create new areas of bipartisanship.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Big Tech’s Relentless Influence on Trade Policy
How even Biden’s best officials are subject to insidious corporate pressure
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Democratic Senate Hopeful’s Company Resists FTC Investigation
Maryland’s David Trone’s liquor store chain enmeshed in antitrust case
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Climate Denialist Think Tank That Might Produce the Next FTC Commissioner
It turns out that radical ideology IS allowed at the FTC.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Jim Jordan Misfires in Attacks on Lina Khan
House Judiciary Committee Republicans didn’t follow Jordan in his assaults on Khan’s ethics. Some Republicans even praised her.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Lina Khan Faces an Inquisition
An upcoming House Judiciary Committee hearing is an attempt to force her to stand down on fighting corporate power, or face the consequences.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Lina Khan Haters Took a Premature Victory Lap
It turns out that the ethics official who recommended that Khan recuse herself from a case involving Meta is an owner of Meta stock.
