Anti-Trust

With Joe Biden not running for re-election, his running mate Kamala Harris is now in the spotlight. Her record on monopolies and financial concentration is mixed. Will she cede populism to the right?

4% of all the money in America flows through a few mafia-like health care conglomerates. The FTC just released a ground-breaking report on how they operate. And it is gearing up to sue.

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are key part of US's high drug costs, report finds.

Euro nation's monopoly gendarmes cheesed off with GPU giant's dominance

Almost two years after two dozen streaming subscribers sued the Mouse House over anticompetitive tactics, the case is moving forward

The European Union on Tuesday accused Microsoft of breaching antitrust rules with the "abusive" bundling of its Teams and Office products.

Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.

A local auto mechanic has to deal with so many junk fees that he's afraid of the future. And why wouldn't he be? The future isn't what we thought it could be.

In 2016, Donald Trump went after CEOs so often that the Wall Street Journal set up a tracker of stocks whose leaders he insulted. No longer. What happened?

Hollywood studio pledges to keep the Drafthouse model going

Why is this economy so difficult to manage? The macro statistics are hiding the experience of being cheated.

Google has a political machine run by an operative Josh Wright. Wright just went down in a sordid scandal. What this saga shows is far more than the antitrust establishment wants you to see.

In an astonishing move, Google cut a check to the U.S. government over an antitrust case, in the hopes of avoiding a jury trial. And it argues such jury trials are unconstitutional.

The "People's Lawyer" Jonathan Kanter wants to make concerts and live events more affordable, and today the Department of Justice filed suit to make it happen.

In response to recent antitrust charges, Live Nation claims it is barely profitable. But then quietly it also just flagged internal accounting issues on its investor docs. What is going on?

The DOJ is seeking a breakup of Live Nation.

Companies in the oil, hotel, meat and other sectors are price-gouging the US public. They’re not hiding it, either

A few months ago, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to change its app store rules. They didn't. Now she's very angry. Plus, the Antitrust Division is gearing up to go at Big Medicine.

Gas prices are going up. A new lawsuit says the reason is American shale producers have illegally cut capacity in league with the global oil cartel. In other words, Texas joined OPEC.

It's been a long Winter, but the antitrust trial of the century (thus far) returns. The judge continues to keep it too secret, which is why you haven't heard about it. But there's now an audio line.

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?

Workers at a Volkwagon factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are now voting on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). Is this the restart of a unionized nation?

Corporate defense lawyers have adopted a new strategy that not even the mob considered. When facing litigation from the government, file misconduct charges against the attorneys bringing the charges.

Google lost an antitrust case late last year to Epic Games. Now California judge James Donato is overseeing the remedy. Could that include a break-up?

Microsoft will unbundle Teams from Office 365 for new business software licenses globally, expanding a move introduced in Europe initially.

“I wanted to have you on a podcast, and Apple asked us not to do it,” Stewart told his guest, Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, Monday night. “They literally said, ‘Please don’t talk to her.’”

Congressman Bill Pascrell released a report today on precisely how Live Nation/Ticketmaster 'essentially defrauds' artists, consumers, and promoters. It's all about the rebates, baby.

An antitrust complaint around hotels suggest that what's happening in the economy is systemic price fixing. The Antitrust Division and the FTC are updating the law to stop the bad behavior.

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.

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...

RCS and green bubbles in iPhone-to-Android texts play role in Apple/DOJ battle.

Every Sunday, I do a monopoly round-up for paid subscribers. Today’s review is chock full of news, but the first item is disturbing. So I’ve decided to make the first part of this issue available to everyone. Over the past few months, Congressional appropriators have been negotiating over the govern...

The Federal Trade Commission sued to block the supermarket chain Kroger from buying Albertsons. Does this deal have a chance? Not really.

In 2010, Congress capped fees for debit card networks so merchants don't get gouged by Visa and Mastercard. But the Fed stuck in a loophole for Discover. And that is leading Capital One to buy it.

With two antitrust suits filed and a big one on the way, this merger is on life support. And enforcers discovered what could be criminal collusion.

With the Vision Pro, Apple is showcasing a product that is magic. But behind the glitter is a dangerous empire that is placing all of America at risk.

The history and politics of monopoly power. Click to read BIG by Matt Stoller, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

In a new letter, the FTC complains that Microsoft's 1,900 layoffs across its video game workforce contradict what was said in the antitrust trial over its now-complete acquisition of Activision Blizzard.