Monday, October 2, 2023

Tag: monopolies

Warren is correct about busting up big tech

In this new Gilded Age, we need to respond to them as forcefully as we did the first time around. Warren’s ideas are a good start.

Building Monopolies, One Merger After Another

If Anheuser-Busch InBev is allowed to become the first global brewery, it won't be because it makes the best beer but because it's rigging the marketplace to slam the door on its “free enterprise” competitors.

Whatever Happened to Antitrust?

America used to have antitrust laws, but no longer. Giant corporations are now taking over the economy and weakening antitrust enforcement. We are living in a land of monopolies.

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Kids shouldn’t have to pay for school lunches

If education is free at the point of use, why aren’t school meals?

The Biden interview: the President talks about the Supreme Court, threats to democracy and...

In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.

The slow-motion equivalent of a nuclear war?

A "new Cold War" on an ever-hotter planet

‘Unbelievably cruel’: GOP pushes astronomical cuts to education, housing, and food aid

"The same party who provided $2 trillion tax giveaways to the wealthy wants to slash funding for WIC, devastating women and children," said Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore.

The perilous path from western domination to de-dollarization

De-dollarization is a road fraught with many challenges.