Regulators pass rules to stop hotels, banks, and Ticketmaster from hiding what they charge. It's just one part of the war on junk fees, which will continue despite the end of the Biden administration.| www.thebignewsletter.com
The history and politics of monopoly power. Click to read BIG by Matt Stoller, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.thebignewsletter.com
UnitedHealth Group is not an insurer, it's a platform. And it's in the crosshairs as Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley propose breaking it apart, severing its pharmacy arm from the rest of the business| www.thebignewsletter.com
The murder of UnitedHealth Care CEO Brian Thompson was brutal. The reactions were telling. Elite disdain for the rule of law is leading to a society that is spinning out of control.| www.thebignewsletter.com
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Big business wants white glove treatment in Donald Trump's America. One example, economic termite Verisign, is illustrative of how Washington, D.C. is accommodating the new administration.| www.thebignewsletter.com
Anti-monopolists attached themselves to the Democratic Party. And we got blown out. Why? And are there larger lessons?| www.thebignewsletter.com
A win for the Federal Trade Commission's Lina Khan as Tapestry, the owner of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman, is barred from buying Capri, which owns Michael Kors, Jimmy Choo, and Versace.| www.thebignewsletter.com
Too many big corporations in America cheat consumers through subscription scams. The FTC's Click to Cancel rule just made them mad. And in an obscure document dump, their lawyers showed why.| www.thebignewsletter.com
The Antitrust Division sued Visa for levying a private sales tax on every merchant in America. It's about time. The DOJ is going to win, as this case looks a lot like the case against Google search.| www.thebignewsletter.com
The FTC sued the key middlemen of big pharma. Plus more on the Wall Street campaign to fire Lina Khan, and the ad world prepares for Google's break-up.| www.thebignewsletter.com
Today, the CFPB proposed a rule that would remove medical bills from most credit reports, increase privacy protections, help to increase credit scores and loan approvals, and prevent debt collectors from using the credit reporting system to coerce people to pay.| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Algorithms are no longer a Get out of Jail free card. The Third Circuit ruled that TikTok must stand trial for manipulating children into harming themselves. The business model of big tech is over.| www.thebignewsletter.com
The Antitrust Division finally sued RealPage for orchestrating a conspiracy among corporate landlords and illegally hiking rents for millions in cities across the country.| www.thebignewsletter.com
Henry George was right about land values. And today we have a homebuilder cartel rooted in control of land and financing.| www.thebignewsletter.com
Why is this economy so difficult to manage? The macro statistics are hiding the experience of being cheated.| www.thebignewsletter.com
I’ll get to the good and bad news of the week, but first I want to note the big story - Donald Trump’s conviction by a jury in New York - and a little story with big implications - the Federal Bureau of Investigation raiding a corporate landlord in cahoots with a nation-wide rent-fixing cartel that affects up to 16 million apartments.| www.thebignewsletter.com
It's not a mystery why voters don't know what Biden has done. The White House communications team systematically refuses to talk about the Biden agenda to reorient big business.| www.thebignewsletter.com
The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing the average family $3,000 last year. The question is, what can we do about it?| www.thebignewsletter.com
The news of the week includes reverberations from the Apple antitrust suit, a drop in realtor commissions, a Biden nomination of a villain for a judgeship, and more...| www.thebignewsletter.com
Apple just got slapped with a major antitrust suit alleging a 'pattern of anti-competitive behavior' across all its product lines. And it lost $114 billion in market cap in one day as a result.| www.thebignewsletter.com
Despite what you've been told, the U.S. government is serious about privacy and data. And the TikTok divestment is just one prong of a bigger strategy.| www.thebignewsletter.com
At the Supreme Court this week, big tech said most economic regulation for platforms are unconstitutional. And they used same logic as Robert Bork in attacking the Civil Rights Act of 1964.| www.thebignewsletter.com
For the first time, the Antitrust Division stopped an airline merger, despite wailing from executives about industry woes. That's a historic win. It's also the end of the beginning for our movement.| www.thebignewsletter.com
Search giant Google has lost its first antitrust case in a San Francisco jury trial. The breakup of Big Tech begins.| www.thebignewsletter.com
A new antitrust case shows that Prime inflates prices across the board, using the false promise of 'free shipping' that is anything but free.| www.thebignewsletter.com
