I Worked for and Adore Joe Biden. We Need Radical Candor From His Team—and Those Who Want Him to Quit the Race. Many inconvenient truths are being overlooked in the rush to end the president’s campaign.
The Secret Monopoly Making Everything More Expensive
A two-decade fight with monopoly power in the payment system has arrived at a moment of truth, boiling down to one simple question: Will the courts bless price-fixing? Let’s hope not. Last week, Demand Progress, American Economic Liberties Project, Consumer Reports, and Small Business Majority asked a federal court to reject a proposed antitrust settlement that would bless the Visa-Mastercard duopoly in credit-card payment services. The case, officially known as In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation, grew out of a grievance merchants and consumers have nursed for decades that has curdled into something worse over…
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