Patrick Industries announced a merger with its main competitor for selling components for recreational vehicles. A lawsuit alleges that it leverages market power.
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Posted inTechnology
Identity Crisis
Citizen access to public agencies is a basic public function. Why does government contract out the process of verifying identity to a for-profit monopoly company?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Macklemore vs. Everybody
The wokest rapper took on the NFL’s plutocratic ownership, the Israel lobby, and the Live Nation ‘flywheel’—and won.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Trump Administration Creates a Monopolization Machine
New rules could grant ‘small business’ benefits to companies with up to $5 billion in assets. Actual small businesses may have no choice but to sell.
Posted inTechnology
Another Monopoly Allowed to Stand
Google avoids accountability again, this time in advertising tech. Why do judges bother to find companies guilty of running a monopoly if they’re unwilling to break them up?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Amazon’s Monopoly Problem Is Growing
Three years after Amazon caught a federal monopoly lawsuit, sellers say the company’s fees and policies are even worse.
Posted inTransportation
Regulators Finally Poised to Review America’s Biggest Rail Merger
The $85 billion proposed merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would create the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. Workers, shippers, and even business rivals are against it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ida Tarbell: The Journalist Who Took Down Rockefeller
Not even Teddy Roosevelt could break up his corrupt oil monopoly—until a daughter of the Pennsylvania oil fields came along.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Assault on Congress’s Anti-Monopoly Solution
By letting presidents fire independent agency commissioners at will, the Supreme Court broke a deliberate diffusion of power that is as old as the Constitution itself.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Anti-Monopoly Bill Hits Make-or-Break Moment in California
Advocates have gained momentum to beef up the state’s primary antitrust law, but the largest companies in the nation are trying to stop it.