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Economy
Reporting and analysis on the American economy and economic policy: how markets, monopolies, and public policy shape jobs, wages, and opportunity. Includes our long-running coverage of antitrust and corporate power in The Monopolized Economy.
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2022
To Fix the Supply Chain Mess, Take on Wall Street
Financiers bent on short-term profits are largely responsible for America’s shortage of semiconductors and other key materials. Before we offer them more subsidies, how about demanding some accountability?
Posted inEconomy
Pretending Monopoly Has Nothing to Do With Inflation
The Washington Post and Larry Summers don’t know what they’re talking about.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Political Animal, Politics
It’s a Biden Boom—and No One Has Noticed Yet
If the current high levels of economic, job, and income growth continue, the 2022 midterms could look different than most are predicting.
Posted inNovember/December 2021
Can Biden Coop Up the Monopolies?
The administration and a bipartisan Congress want to bring relief to livestock farmers. Big Ag lobbyists want to stop them.
Posted inNovember/December 2021
Why Are We Letting Monopolists Corner Space?
Fleets of low Earth orbit satellites are creating a new global communications infrastructure full of promise and peril. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos should not control it.
Posted inNovember/December 2021
Amtrak Joe vs. the Modern Robber Barons
Biden’s big bet on rail infrastructure will be wasted unless he takes on the financiers who control the industry.
Posted inNovember/December 2021
The Doctor Will Not See You Now
Primary care is a disaster. Consolidation is making it worse. And a revolution is coming.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
More Trouble with Big Chicken
Prominent news outlets are echoing this magazine’s longtime crusade against monopolism in the poultry industry. Now, Cargill and Continental Grain seek further consolidation.
