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After mass layoffs, Bain Capital's Varsity Brands is now a "cash flow" machine. It also faces risks from an increasingly angry cheer community.
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Time Warner ex-CEO Jeff Bewkes got a $400 million golden parachute. Everything else about the merger was a disaster.
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The antitrust establishment is confused and upset. Good.
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A pharma talking point is "Plastic bags are a bigger bottleneck than patents." It's time to ask, why is that?
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Last week, the Biden administration asked for a global waiver on vaccine intellectual property protections. What is this waiver? Why does it matter? An…
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Independent cattle producer advocate Bill Bullard explains the problem. It's the monopolies, stupid.
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The Federal Trade Commission let a $39B pharmaceutical merger through without any scrutiny, and the Antitrust Division let Michael Milken roll up the s…
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Joe Biden's tax changes will slow the merger boom. And it will hit private equity particularly hard.
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Opponents of the big tech monopolies are coming out in force. Match Group, Tile, Roku, Epic Games, Spotify, and the News Media Alliance are ripping apa…
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Harvard, Yale, and the other top schools descended from an elitist Puritan tradition are wrecking the great post-World War II democratization of educat…
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The Senate Commerce Committee holds a nominating hearing for the most important scholar on antitrust since Robert Bork. She warns of potential criminal…
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The biggest supermarkets like to sell their own products.
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