Fleets of low Earth orbit satellites are creating a new global communications infrastructure full of promise and peril. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos should not control it.
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Posted inNovember/December 2021
The Doctor Will Not See You Now
Primary care is a disaster. Consolidation is making it worse. And a revolution is coming.
Posted inNovember/December 2021
Biden’s Next Agenda: Anti-monopoly
How enhancing America’s antitrust regime is a winning issue for the administration—and the country.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Political Animal, Politics, The Monopolized Economy
Assassination of Haitian Leader Highlights Nation’s Monopoly-Dominated Economy
The killing of President Jovenal Moïse took place against a backdrop of elite power, anticompetitive policies, and the U.S. doing little to create open markets.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Political Animal, Politics, The Monopolized Economy
Meatpacking Monopolism: Cyberattacks and America’s Concentrated Beef Industry
Packers have been attacked by ransomware, but the larger feedlot-to-plate problem is a lack of competitiveness.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
The Hospital Industry’s No Good, Very Bad Day
At a Senate antitrust hearing, lawmakers appeared poised to finally take on health care provider mergers.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Political Animal, The Monopolized Economy
Now Monopolies Are Crushing the Online Grocery Business
A boom in home deliveries is predatory prey for Uber, Softbank, and others.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Farmers’ Market: A Sketchy Scheme to Reduce Rural Greenhouse Emissions
A coalition of Big Ag, Republicans, Democrats, and some environmental organizations is pushing so-called carbon capture markets to stem climate change. But family farm groups see lots of problems.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Political Animal, Politics, The Monopolized Economy
Klobuchar: “Monopolies Hurt Everyone”
In an interview with the Washington Monthly, the Minnesota Democrat vows to crack down on concentrated power.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Political Animal, The Monopolized Economy
The Problem with Walmart Is Bigness
The retail chain shouldn’t be in finance. But it also shouldn’t exist, period.
