To save their party from Trumpism, Republicans need to once again take on monopolists.
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, Magazine, November/December 2016, The Monopolized Economy
Hillary Opens the Overton Window
The larger political sphere is finally wising up on antitrust policy.
Posted inEconomy, Political Animal, The Monopolized Economy
Hillary Clinton Finally Takes On Corporate Monopolists
Yesterday in Toledo, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in which she linked Donald Trump’s tax manipulations to a broader critique of a “rigged” corporate system—one that allows Wells Fargo to create sham bank accounts and drug companies to raise prices unconscionably. That critique of hers isn’t new. What was new, as the New York Time’s […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics
Privatization as State Transformation
It’s more complicated than you think.
Posted inEconomy
President Obama Is Right on the TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will advance our values and protect our strategic interests.
Posted inEconomy
Which Federal Programs Best Reduce Poverty?
As many as 1 in 5 Americans would be in poverty without Social Security and tax credits for the working poor.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, September/October 2016, The Monopolized Economy
Made from Concentrate
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?
Posted inEconomy
States’ Job Creation Shell Game
States spend billions of dollars on tax breaks and other incentives to woo companies. Unfortunately most of this money ends up in firms’ pockets and few new jobs get created.
Posted inEconomy
Donald Trump’s Empty Economic Plan
Trump’s ideas for job creation will do far more harm than good.
