Phillip Longman reveals in a new article published in The Washington Monthly, that the goal of revitalizing American manufacturing is deeply threatened by financiers who are radically downsizing the nation’s freight rail system in pursuit of short-term profit.
Read MoreIn this issue, we sound the alarm on Amazon’s rapidly growing ad business, which hit record revenues last year and should be cause for concern for U.S. antitrust enforcers.
Read MoreAnnouncing Sandeep Vaheesan’s book coming soon.
Read MoreIn this issue, we preview two other antitrust cases against Google, both focused on monopolistic practices related to its Play Store.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan analyzes the lens of sociologist Jakob Feinig on challenging the dominant view of money as a scarce commodity and how this aligns with the role of President FDR and the New Deal.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan published an article on how the political economic significance of the Inflation Reduction Act is still being vigorously debated—is it more neoliberalism or something different and better? Vaheesan draws on the history of the Hoover Dam to offer a progressive scenario: The IRA as a major boost to cooperative and publicly owned electric utilities.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes about how federal agencies have an opportunity to take immediate action against climate change using anti-monopoly policy.
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