The agency’s antitrust investigation of Facebook is ongoing.
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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.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Why Trump Doesn’t Go After Jeff Bezos
Hint: It would require the serious use of antitrust law. When push comes to shove, Trump is more fellow plutocrat than populist.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Rehabilitation of Antitrust
Time to overturn the revolution wrought by Robert Bork. We need antitrust more than ever.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Democrats Ponder How to Revive Antitrust
With economic inequality soaring to heights not seen in the United States since the progressive era of the early 20th century, it makes sense that some issues on the policy agenda from that bygone age are re-emerging today. Among them: antitrust. In recent years, the rise of corporate concentration, its negative effects on the broader […]
