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Price Discrimination: A recent FTC lawsuit details how Walmart keeps competitors’ prices artificially high.

Rollback Racket

by Kainoa Lowman January 22, 2026October 16, 2026

Power shopping: Military families have enjoyed government-run discount groceries since 1867.

How to Bring Down Grocery Prices

by Claire Kelloway January 22, 2026October 16, 2026

Stadium Pricing: Mamdani and Khan want Cheaper Beers.

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The Freakout Over Cheaper Beer at Yankee Stadium

by Nate Weisberg November 24, 2025October 16, 2026

The Age of Extraction: "The protectors of our industries" cartoon showing Cyrus Field, Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, and Russell Sage, seated on bags of "millions," on large raft, and being carried by workers of various professions.

Monopoly Men

by Kainoa Lowman November 2, 2025October 16, 2026

Enshittification Age: Cory Doctorow speaking at the 2018 Phoenix Comic Fest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Books

The Cory Doctorow Doctrine

by Anita Jain October 30, 2025October 16, 2026

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Railroad Merger: Why It Could Go Off the Rails

by Arnav Rao August 6, 2025October 16, 2026

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The Broadband Story Abundance Liberals Like Ezra Klein Got Wrong

by Paul Glastris and Kainoa Lowman July 9, 2025October 16, 2026

A massive ship being built in China illustrates the woeful state of American shipbuilding. Here's how to save American shipbuilding.

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How to Fix Our Dangerous Dependency on Foreign Ships and Save American Shipbuilding

by Arnav Rao June 30, 2025October 16, 2026

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Has Trump’s FTC Abandoned Fair Markets?

by Ron Knox June 25, 2025October 16, 2026

The Secret to Reindustrializing America Is Not Tax Cuts and Tariffs. It’s Regulated Competition.

by Phillip Longman June 1, 2025October 16, 2026