The company wants to control pricing on everything, and funnel as many transactions to itself as possible. Here’s how the MGM deal does that.
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Posted inPolitics
Congress’s Strange Bedfellows Fighting Big Tech
Coming from two different perspectives, there’s an emerging consensus on blunting the market power of digital platforms. Now the parties have to legislate.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The End of the Insider Party Network
The pipeline from corporate America and Democratic insider circles into government is being challenged.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Big Tech of Health Care
The merger between a subsidiary of UnitedHealth and Change Healthcare would create a vertically integrated, all-seeing giant.
Posted inCabinet Watch
The Top Antitrust Job May Go to an Ally of Joe Lieberman
Jon Sallet, who helped Lieberman get vetted as Gore’s veep, may become the new chief of the Antitrust Division at the Justice Department.
Posted inCabinet Watch
Biden’s Team of Rivals
His top economic appointments are two steps forward, one step backward.
Posted inCabinet Watch
Corporate Lawyers Line Up for Justice Department Top Slots
Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland defended hiring lawyers with Big Tech experience at yesterday’s confirmation hearing.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Antitrust Can Address Racial Inequities
‘Let’s not politicize antitrust’ is code for ‘Let’s not use antitrust in a way that upsets the current power imbalance or America’s caste system.’
Posted inCabinet Watch
Merrick Garland Wants Former Facebook Lawyer to Top Antitrust Division
Susan Davies has spent much of the last decade working on behalf of major mergers and fending off antitrust enforcement.
Posted inBooks
Debating Antitrust Policy and Efficient Markets
An exchange stimulated by Zach Carter’s review of Barry Lynn’s ‘Liberty From All Masters’