An unsealed lawsuit that Trump’s FTC tried to bury puts the pricing schemes of business on full display.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Trump Tariffs Assist Monopoly
Imposing market power on suppliers or seeking special exemptions from the president are not avenues available to small businesses.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The End and Beginning of the Lina Khan Era
The FTC chair lost her job on the same day she added another legal victory. The neo-Brandeisian efforts to convince judges to revive antitrust could have staying power.
Posted inTAP
A Distinctly Biden Doctrine: Corporate Concentration Violates Worker Rights
Today on TAP: His disparate government agencies have come together to make this case.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Three Events That Speak to the Harris Economic Agenda
The Mars-Kellanova merger, the Kroger-Albertsons court case, and the monopolization lawsuit against RealPage all bolster her case against price-fixing.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Stopping Excessive Market Power Before It Grows Into Monopoly
The Robinson-Patman Act is mischaracterized as punishing low prices. It’s actually about preventing powerful monopolies that raise prices in the future.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Underbelly of the Grocery Store
Nothing you see on the shelves is there by accident.
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.
Posted inBooks
Who Controls Your Shopping Cart?
Austin Frerick’s ‘Barons’ follows the food-industry giants that have cornered giant portions of the market for everything from coffee to chicken thighs.
Posted inWorking in America
FTC Blocks Kroger-Albertsons Merger on Labor Grounds
The lawsuit alleges that a combined grocery giant would make collective bargaining more difficult.