A mailer supporting New Hampshire House candidate Maggie Goodlander is from a pro-veteran PAC that Bezos and his parents gave millions to.
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The Domination Tour
Four decades of intensifying corporate concentration turned the music industry into a wasteland of institutionalized control and abuse. Are antitrust enforcers ready to reckon with that?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Government Created the Most Profitable Company in America
Now, the Biden administration has the opportunity to slash the astronomical profit margins of VeriSign, the obscure company making a mint on annual .com website registrations.
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The Great Fishing Caper
A fishing conglomerate created a fake company to facilitate a merger. It could now be on the hook for billions of dollars.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Built by AI Hype
As it dominates the market for AI chips, Nvidia was briefly the most valuable company on Earth. How it got there is the subject of a Justice Department investigation.
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Big Business Has Come for Your Baseball Cards
Fanatics, the self-described Amazon of sports, has used long-term exclusive deals to monopolize apparel and memorabilia markets, and make its products unavoidable.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Taming the Pricing Beast
The government has a variety of strategies to protect the public from price-gouging and information advantages over the consumer.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Lina Khan: Extraction Exterminator
The Federal Trade Commission chair plays a key role in preventing exploitative pricing schemes from taking root.
Posted inEconomic Policy
War in the Aisles
Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers and small-business owners alike. Big Data will only entrench those dynamics further.
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Defense Department Submits to Microsoft’s Profit-Taking
The forced upgrade to Microsoft’s E5 productivity apps, ostensibly for cybersecurity reasons, is an example of the software giant’s insinuation into government tech systems.