The nation’s rail regulator proposes that shippers receiving poor service can get a competitor to carry their goods.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Google Tries to Protect Its Monopoly Under Cover of Darkness
The search giant objects to a live audio feed of its historic monopolization trial, which begins next week.
Posted inEconomic Policy
American Steel’s Succession
Mergers temporarily strengthen labor’s bargaining chip. But in the long run, anti-monopoly experts say, corporate power crushes workers and consumers.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How Private Monopolies Fuel Climate Disaster and Public Corruption
Investor-owned utilities have been at the forefront of numerous political scandals and ecological disasters. There is an alternative.
Posted inTransportation
Tesla’s Incipient Dominance of EV Charging Networks
Automakers switching to Tesla’s charging plug opens up more opportunities in the short term, but problems in the long term.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Q&A: How Corporate Medicine Destroys Doctors
Wendy Dean, who co-authored a new book about moral injury in American medicine, says working in today’s health care system is ‘not the agreement that we thought we were making.’
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Sick System
The business of health care in America is deeply out of whack.
Posted inTAP
The Alliance to Rein In Big Tech
Today on TAP: Give the platform monopolies credit for one thing. They are helping to create new areas of bipartisanship.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Climate Denialist Think Tank That Might Produce the Next FTC Commissioner
It turns out that radical ideology IS allowed at the FTC.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Return to Rentiership
A new paper shows that rent-seeking by firms with dominant market positions has exploded since the 1980s.
