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Open Thread: Memorial Day, the Civil War, and and Land Monopolies
It’s Memorial Day, a holiday founded after the Civil War to memorialize the soldiers who fought and died in that conflict, roughly 2% of the U.S…
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How to Humiliate an Economist
Judge Leo Sorokin had enough of the experts of American Airlines and JetBlue last week, calling their testimony "unnuanced" "glib" "misleading" "bias…
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Monopoly Round-Up: The Debt Ceiling and a Major Win against Airlines
It’s been an excellent week on the anti-monopoly front, with a major win in court, a big pharma case filed, and a key judicial nominee blocked. …
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Martin Shkreli Was Too Honest
FTC Chair Lina Khan just put the business model of big pharma on trial with a challenge to a merger of Amgen and Horizon Therapeutics. And Wall Street…
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Time to Break Up Hollywood
Hollywood is trapped in a death spiral, with streaming giants struggling to profit while smothering the industry itself. Finally the writers stood up…
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Open Thread and Monopoly Round-up: Labor Unrest...
Today’s open thread is about the wave of labor unrest that may be happening soon. Or you can talk mergers, or debt ceiling, or whatever you want…
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All Rise: How Judges Rule America
In a case involving Swedish conglomerate Assa Abloy's attempt to dominate smart locks, a Biden judge is acting like an anti-government management…
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April 2023
Monopoly Round-Up
Here’s this week’s monopoly round-up. The biggest news was in the D.C. Circuit Court, where a bipartisan panel of three judges issued a ruling m…
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Big Tech Blocked: Microsoft Stopped from Taking Over Gaming
Anti-monopolists at the UK's Competition and Markets Authority prevented the consolidation of gaming. And in doing so, they are creating a very…
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Open Thread and Monopoly Round-Up
Here’s this week’s open thread and monopoly round-up for paid subscribers. I’ll be hanging around in the comments, as usual. The AELP Anti-Monop…
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How a Google Antitrust Case Could Determine the Future of AI
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is on a PR blitz around artificial intelligence and the threat to the search giant. The tech is real. But there's also an…
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Monopoly Round-Up and Open Thread
Ok, it’s open thread and monopoly round-up time. I’ll be in the comments, as usual. Boeing is having more production problems. Whaddya know, mon…
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