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.
Read MoreOpen Markets recommended reading.
Read MoreExplore the impacts of today’s extreme levels of economic concentration with Open Markets Institute, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), Luigi Zingales & more.
Read MoreWhy liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder
Read MoreHow the legal profession became Wall Street’s helpmeet
It’s time for the Democratic leader to step aside.
OMI believes the DOJ’s action should serve as a first step towards restoring the open, democratic, highly distributed media structure that existed in the United States through most of the 20th Century.
Read MorePhil 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
Read MoreRussian exploitation of Facebook’s monopoly structure to undermine America’s democracy means the FTC must act swiftly to curb its power.
Read MoreIn the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
Read MoreCan users of what is essentially privatized social infrastructure really log off?
Read MoreOpen 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?
Read MoreGoogle'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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