They’re another reminder that effective regulation is often good for business. So why won’t anyone say so?
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 inEconomy, Featured
To Fix Regional Inequality, Target the One Percent
Migration isn’t what made some metros quite wealthy and others quite poor.
Posted inEconomy, Featured
How the Federal Government Rigs the Game Against Small Businesses
An FTC-approved merger will help Staples and Amazon crush the independent office-supply industry.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, The Monopolized Economy
Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t a Robot. That’s the Problem.
Instead of regulating them, we trusted tech monopolists to transcend human nature. Now we’re paying for it.
Posted inCover, Economy, Featured, January/February/March 2019, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
How to Close the Democrats’ Rural Gap
Forget Trump’s tariffs. Big Ag is driving a new farm crisis.
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2019
To Take Back the Map, Democrats Need a Plan to Revive Heartland Cities
The clustering of growth in a few coastal metro areas is partly to blame for the rise of GOP minority rule.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, The Monopolized Economy
Why Some Kids Might Get Their Presents Late This Christmas
America’s railroads are far more monopolized and even less regulated than they were a century ago.
Posted inEconomy, Featured
Amazon’s HQ2 Will Get a Tax Break Designed to Help the Poor
A provision in Trump’s tax cut means we’re all helping to pay Jeff Bezos’s tab.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Magazine, November/December 2018, The Monopolized Economy
The Case For Small-Business Cooperation
How America’s anti-monopoly laws got turned against the little guy.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, The Monopolized Economy
A Prison Phone Giant’s Ploy to Further Exploit Inmates
Securus Technologies’s attempt to merge with a competitor would let a company known for price-gouging inmates become larger and even more powerful.
