The so-called ‘pill penalty’ fix is a corporate favor designed to increase the period where prescriptions are immune from price negotiations.
corporate power
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case
Mark Zuckerberg fairly obviously bought Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize a perceived competitor. He isn’t doing that with TikTok, and the FTC’s monopolization trial is why.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Trump Tariffs Assist Monopoly
Imposing market power on suppliers or seeking special exemptions from the president are not avenues available to small businesses.
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Tariffs, Schmariffs
Today on TAP: Trump rewards the real offshorers with trillions in tax cuts.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Corporate Pardons Create Monopolies
Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.
Posted inPolitics
Can the Democrats Reclaim Economic Populism?
That challenge is key to winning back voters who deserted the Harris-Walz ticket in 2024. Some rank-and-file members are calling for something new.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump Scrambles to Pardon Corporate Criminals He Once Prosecuted
First the gutted CFPB pronounced ‘Whites Only’ marketing legal again. Now Boeing wants to renege on the sweetheart deal of the century.
Posted inTAP
Bezos Attacks Toddler Safety
Today on TAP: Amazon sues to abolish the one federal agency empowered to identify and recall highly flammable little-kid PJs.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Cold War Kids
Apple’s hit show ‘Severance’ was originally about the class struggle; Season 2 stifles that in favor of corporate crisis management.
