Legal scholars have penned a statement of beliefs about how to best disrupt corporate concentration.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Tech Companies’ Big Reveal: Hardly Anyone Files Arbitration Claims
Responding to Congress, they make clear that forced arbitration gives them the means to sidestep the law.
Posted inTAP
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
FTC Policy: Commissioner Phillips Downplays Potential Use of Sherman Act Section 2 to Block Mergers
The agency’s antitrust investigation of Facebook is ongoing.
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 inLaw and Justice
Is Trump’s Justice Department Trying to Discredit All Antitrust?
Its plainly political investigation of auto companies that agreed to California’s emission standards is just that absurd.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s Antitrust Cops Fail to Police Big Business—Again
The day after one regulator announces an investigation into Big Tech, another gives Facebook a wet kiss. It’s all part of a pattern.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why the Justice Department Waved Through the CVS-Aetna Merger
The insurance company/pharmacy merger could have been fixed to prevent market power, even if it wasn’t totally blocked.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Double Standard of Antitrust Law
How today’s antitrust law strengthens top-down corporate control and weakens democratic cooperation
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The New Economic Concentration
The competition that justifies capitalism is being destroyed—by capitalists.