Mamdani stole the show this month, but ‘Moderate Mikie’ across the Hudson ran on an even bolder platform to rein in corporate power. From the governor’s mansion, she’ll have the authority to deliver.
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Posted inBooks
The Exploitative Origins of Amazon
Since the very beginning, the internet giant has grown by stealing ideas, squelching competition, and cheating on its taxes.
Posted inNovember/December 2023
Winning the Anti-monopoly Game
Despite press accounts to the contrary, the Biden administration’s revival of antitrust policy isn’t failing. It’s just getting started.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
After the East Palestine, Ohio, Train Disaster, Why Approve More Rail Monopolies?
The accident highlights railroad consolidation just as a little-known agency considers a mammoth $31 billion merger.
Posted inMagazine
Stuck on Baltic Place: Why the Government Loses at Monopoly
It’s easy to imagine what went on back in 1972, when the boardrooms of DuPont Chemical were abuzz with conspiracy. Modern-day robber-barons reclined in chairs of fine Corinthian leather while their operatives described a breakthrough in making titanium dioxide, a pigment for paints and paper. DuPont, it seemed, had learned to make the stuff far […]
