The Corner Newsletter: CVS/Aetna Deal, Republican Tax Bill's Concentration Problem, Monopoly & Regional Inequality

Dear friends, this is the inaugural issue of The Corner, a digest of need-to-know news about the concentration of economic power in America, and what people are doing about it. As a member of our list, we thought you'd be interested in The Corner. But if you'd prefer not to receive this newsletter, you can easily unsubscribe at the end of this e-mail. In this week's issue, we cover developments ranging from CVS's bid to take over Aetna to the ways in which the Republican tax bill promotes consolidation to important new data on how monopoly is aggravating regional inequality.

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Made from Concentrate

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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