The Massachusetts congressman, facing a primary challenge, enabled rip-offs on doctor bills to reward private equity giant Blackstone.
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Amazon’s Private Government
A new patent cements the company’s aims to use its power over sellers to consolidate control.
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Spotify Is Doing to Podcasting What Facebook and Google Did to Blogs
By acquiring the most popular shows, Spotify wants to dominate the industry, and make it impossible for newer voices to emerge.
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Coronavirus Reveals Consequences of Restricted Repair
Ventilators and other medical equipment sit idle when needed the most, because manufacturers have monopolized repair services as a profit center.
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Monopolies in Meat: Endangering Workers, Farmers, and Consumers
Deregulation has led to Big Ag’s giant slaughterhouses, where COVID-19 is rampant and the supply chain grinds to a halt.
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Remote Control
A civil rights lawsuit highlights how Comcast’s monopoly crushes media diversity.
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Q&A: ‘Amazon Empire’ Director on the World’s Richest Man and His Mega-Company
James Jacoby, one of the filmmakers behind a PBS Frontline documentary, discusses Amazon’s bid for economic transformation.
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Disney Launches a Blitzkrieg in the Streaming Wars
And it’s doing so by leveraging its market power in extreme, perhaps illegal ways.
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How the Disney Monopoly Influences What You Can See
‘The Sound of Music’ and hundreds of Fox films are out; a propaganda map used by the Chinese Communist Party is in.
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The Rise and Fall of Andrew Mellon
He was America’s most powerful businessman and the Treasury secretary throughout the 1920s. His corruption would lead to an impeachment inquiry.
