In today’s newsletter: Higher aviation travel prices and even mass cancellations are imminent. Also, China is a big winner and loser from the war.
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Posted inBooks
Vertical Vertigo
Brian Callaci’s book describes the deregulatory strategies franchisors use to protect their profits.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: California Attorney General Rob Bonta Is Not Done With Ticketmaster
The system is not completely broken, and it shows when states pick up the shattered pieces of our federal system.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The Live Nation Case
Why your event tickets are sky-high is even more infuriating than you can imagine.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: Why Your Lamp Sucks
Don’t search the web for mid-century lighting until you listen to this week’s episode.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Live Nation Settlement Spurs Chaos in Court
The deal contains a fairly useless set of conditions. More than two dozen states vow to continue fighting.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The Paramount Takeover
The Ellisons moved closer to capturing Warner Bros., and control of a massive news, sports, and entertainment content stream.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Paramount-Warner Would Create a Hollywood Jobs Apocalypse
The deal comes complete with so much debt that it would almost certainly lead to mass job loss. That could prove to be an argument against the deal in court, too.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What You Won’t See at the Live Nation–Ticketmaster Trial
A Biden-appointed judge substantially narrowed the government’s bid to break up the music monopoly, and suppressed a few topics we’d really like to see play out on the stand.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
States Can Block the Paramount-Warner Deal
But thanks to some clever maneuvering, they are already running out of time.