Phil Longman reports in the Washington Monthly about how the real healthcare crisis involves monopolies.
Senator Al Franken gives a keynote speech in a 3 part panel discussion about the power of Big Tech, net neutrality, monopoly, and our democracy
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Russian exploitation of Facebook’s monopoly structure to undermine America’s democracy means the FTC must act swiftly to curb its power.
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In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
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Can users of what is essentially privatized social infrastructure really log off?
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Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglas reviews Philip Howard's "Concentration and Power in the Food System" in the Washington Monthly. His slim book which poses a simple question: who controls what we eat? Four companies decide what meat you eat, two choose what milk you buy, and soon only one will determine what beer you drink. Are we all fine with that?
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Google's proposed remedy of the European Commission's demand falls far short of what is necessary to address Google’s abuse of its dominant position in search.
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The Open Markets Institute applauds the Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) for recognizing that America has a monopoly problem and driving forward the conversation about how to address it.
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The credit reporting debate we should be having.
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Ten old/new ideas to give power back to the people.
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Open Markets congratulates European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager and the European competition authority for this important decision requiring that Google give equal treatment to rival services instead of privileging its own.
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In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan argues that the rise of monopoly and oligopoly in America is result of conscious policy choices initiated in the late 1970s and 1980s that succeeded in focusing antitrust law on the narrow concept of economic efficiency and establishing legal standards friendly to powerful businesses.
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Monopoly is back: Barry Lynn on the concentration of American economic power — and how we can restore fairness
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He had opportunities to help the working class, and he passed them up.
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