The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Corporate Merger Aims to Build a Water Privatization Giant
Veolia and Suez plan a $15.4 billion deal that would create the largest private water firm in the world.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Islands in the Stream
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech’s Bullying Campaigns
Faced for the first time with actual pressure from regulators and law enforcement, tech companies have responded aggressively.
Posted inBooks
Debating Antitrust Policy and Efficient Markets
An exchange stimulated by Zach Carter’s review of Barry Lynn’s ‘Liberty From All Masters’
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Biden Can Move On From the Obama Era
The American Economic Liberties Project’s ‘Courage to Learn’ report explains Obama’s failures on competition policy, and a path forward for the new president.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s Not a Big Tech Crackdown, It’s an Anti-Monopoly Revolution
Critical developments across sectors of the economy show that the movement against corporate power is winning—at last.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Vaccine Development Should Trigger Transformation of Monopoly Patent System
Plus, how corporate profits have soared in the pandemic. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for December 11, 2020.
Posted inBooks
The Power of Ideas and the Idea of Power
The progressives won the debate about whether there is a power elite. Now they need to keep the corporate elite from destroying what’s left of our democracy.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A Bright Spot Amid Biden’s Middle-of-the-Road Approach
On antitrust and Big Tech, advocates changed the conversation. That has invalidated the same old corporate-friendly personnel.
