How Amazon and other cash-burning giants may be illegally cornering the market.
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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 inFeatured, Politics
Amazon’s HQ2 Is Bad for the D.C. Area
The continued concentration of big tech in coastal cities hurts everyone.
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 inBooks, Economy, Featured, July/August 2018, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
The Truth About Big Business
A new defense of the monopolization of the U.S. economy relies on cherry-picked data and misleading arguments.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Royal Scam: A Press Corps at Its Lowest Point
Seriously, who gives a damn? The attention that American mainstream-media entities are giving to the worthlessness in Windsor Castle today is nothing short of repulsive, an indictment of the Fourth Estate’s fetish for frivolity over seriousness and substance, a worsening of the anti-intellectual trends in American culture. Why are we paying so much attention to […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump Believes His Own Delusions, Regardless of the Facts
After a year and a half of chaos, we could be entering the most dangerous period of his presidency.
Posted inPolitics
The Messy Fight Over Taxing Online Retailers
States want to collect sales tax from online sellers. Whether they’re successful or not, the only winner will be Amazon.
