Matt Stoller on monopoly power, antitrust, and the politics of corporate consolidation.
Cheating as a business model exists because Americans can no longer sue big business. A Democratic Congress could fix this problem with one simple law. Plus, a defeat for Paramount-Warner, and more...
Executives and big law lawyers in the Nexstar-TEGNA case are openly showing contempt for a judge. And the ABA Antitrust bar is silent on the corruption of the Paramount-Warner merger.
Today was a good day for the anti-monopoly movement, and Hollywood artists. It was not a good day for Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison and his legal team trying to roll up Hollywood.
Sony will no longer ship physical copies of games, prompting widespread anger from customers at how their ownership rights are being stripped by powerful monopolies. Plus, SpaceX craters...
The Paramount-Warner merger challenge looks odd, but that's only because all the other cops are bought off. Here are the arguments for and against the deal, and the process going forward.
“They’re completely driven by antisemitism and socialism,” say a source in the New York Post about deal opponents. Plus, a merger boom, and someone let a squirrel loose in Meta's offices...
It's not hard to help America's farmers escape from John Deere's monopoly. But actually breaking the firm's inefficient control over equipment would cut against our strategy of Number Go Up.
Donald Trump's self-dealing and corruption are fostering an oligarchy, with laws organized by the Supreme Court. Can America defeat the vision offered eighty years ago of a cynical nihilistic society?
The Stringer Bell rule is obsolete, as Trump and state attorneys general let the egg producers off the hook for a brazen conspiracy. Still, egg prices did drop as a result of the investigation.
In 1995, Newt Gingrich killed the ability of the left to project power. It hasn't recovered. Plus, Trump picks a new antitrust chief, the end of cheap electronics, and the AI bubble wobbles...
As populist politicians win elections, the anti-monopoly movement attacks new AI driven price-fixing hiking the cost of gas, meat, rent, electronics, et al. But can the new populists govern?
On Friday - Juneteenth - Obama opened his oligarch-funded library. What does this moment say about race and finance? Plus, the FTC stops enforcing Robinson-Patman, the AI bubble worsens, and more...
In the 1970s, governments prepared for oil shocks. It turns out, stockpiling and diversification works, which is probably why economists hate doing it.
Elon Musk is a trans-humanist, the ultimate expression of the Chicago School philosophy. The Pope offers a different vision about how limits make us human. Plus, Iran, Warner/Paramount, and more...
It's now consensus that we're in a bubble of investment in AI data centers, and that it's a risk to our economy. If the stock market declines, how bad could it get? Where are there areas of contagion?
Controversy erupted in a Maine Senate race, causing Democrats nationwide to go at each others' throat. Fights over oligarchy are becoming unavoidable.
In his autobiography "Born to Be Wired," Warner board member and billionaire John Malone describes how he helped turn America into a society focused on greed and market power.
Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO is a very scary moment for the stock market. And AI is getting repriced in an ugly way as corporate America finally has to start paying for the tools.
Potential 2028 candidate Gavin Newsom is fighting with Chevron about high gas prices. But the real stakes are about whether the U.S. will remain locked into an expensive fossil fuel tech stack.
Big business lost this fight, and a battle over railway safety and labor conditions. It's a shocking moment, as Wall Street titans start to see their power ebb in the waning days of the Trump era.
NextEra's $67 billion takeover of Dominion shows the problem with utilities. We spend a lot, and get little in return. Why? Utility monopolies profit from gold-plating, waste and inefficiency.
As students boo commencement speakers touting AI, and communities reject data centers, billionaires are getting nervous and angry. It's going to get worse.
From electric vehicles to drones to solar to AI, the Chinese are doing what the U.S. used to - investing and competing. Chinese strategy is also predatory, but we could learn a thing or two from them.
Lots of monopoly news, as usual.
The inequality of the legal system is on full display. If you're big, you have rights. If you're small, you don't. And the Cintas-Unifirst merger reveals how this system enables bad behavior.
This week, the four biggest spenders on AI released their earnings within two minutes of each other. There's an unsettling reason for that. Plus, Michigan goes after private equity in youth sports...
It wasn't Biden antitrust enforcers. It was Donald Trump's Iran War, JetBlue, the big four trunk airlines, and behind all of that, deregulation. And this story has happened hundreds of times.