The day after one regulator announces an investigation into Big Tech, another gives Facebook a wet kiss. It’s all part of a pattern.
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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 […]
Posted inWorking in America
Uber’s Antitrust Problem
Uber recently settled one lawsuit, but its drivers remain contractors and several court challenges loom—including one that puts the ride-sharing service in the crosshairs of antitrust law.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Bring Back Antitrust
Despite low inflation and some bargain prices, economic concentration and novel abuses of market power are pervasive in today’s economy—harming consumers, workers, and innovators. We need a new antitrust for a new predatory era.
Posted inArticle
ANTI-TRUST ME.
Via Chris Hayes, we have top Department of Justice official Christine Varney’s big anti-trust announcement: President Obama’s top antitrust official this week plans to restore an aggressive enforcement policy against corporations that use their market dominance to elbow out competitors or to keep them from gaining market share. … She will assert instead that severe […]