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Open Thread: Have You Ever Been Through a Merger?Last week, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and Department of Justice Antitrust Division chief Jonathan Kanter announced they are going …
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There's a bicycle shortage due to, yes, monopoly. And now the monopolists are trying to build a world without independent bike shops.
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Microsoft is buying Activision in a $69 billion deal to reshape video gaming. Meanwhile, government antitrust enforcers are gearing up to stop mergers…
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It's an ugly moment, but if you look closely, monopolies are beginning to lose a few fights.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are demanding their minions in the Senate protect them. Will they? We'll see this week.
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In a comical trolling of elite America, plaintiff lawyers are suing Yale, MIT, Columbia, Duke, et al for price-fixing. The suit reveals how American…
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Open Thread: Let's Talk Inflation...Welcome to 2022. Today’s open thread topic is inflation. Inflation, and product shortages, are a common theme for BIG. I’ve been warning of shor…
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What did we get done last year? What will happen in the coming year? And how did BIG do?
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Concentration is increasing prices and keeping them high. The ammunition duopoly and the "Great Ammunition Shortage" is just one example.
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A fire at ASML, the critical semiconductor equipment monopolist, may have destroyed key capacity. And semi stock TSMC went up! This is an example not of…
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Higher prices aren't just a result of supply chain chaos or government spending. Inflation is being driven by the pricing power and higher profits of…
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Leadership does make a difference as Wall Street aims for lots of small transactions instead of a few mega-mergers.
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