Executive Director Barry Lynn writes about how despite seemingly large growth in beer variety, America’s beer market is actually more concentrated than ever with two giants — Anheuser-Busch Inbev and MillerCoors — controlling some 90 percent of production.
Read MoreOn the Washington Monthly, Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan tells the untold story of how the administration tried to stand up to big agricultural companies on behalf of independent farmers, and lost. A generation ago, it seemed that Americans had solved the problem of monopoly in agriculture. Over the last quarter century, this progress has been reversed. Today, the top four meatpacking companies control 82 percent of the beef market—an unprecedented share of the pie.
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