Today in Monopoly - Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Here are some stories we had our eye on today:

Meet the New Agenda Setters in the House

The Wall Street Journal

In winning control of the House of Representatives, Democrats take over the chairman’s seat in the chamber’s committees. Here are the men and women likely to be setting the agenda for key committees, and what policy changes to expect from them.

House Democrats’ Agenda: Ethics, Infrastructure and Medical Legislation

The New York Times, Nicholas Fandos

Democratic leaders say they would use their first month in the House majority to advance sweeping changes to future campaign and ethics laws, requiring the disclosure of shadowy political donors, outlawing the gerrymandering of congressional districts and restoring key enforcement provisions to the Voting Rights Act. They would then turn to infrastructure investment and the climbing costs of prescription drugs, answering voter demands and challenging President Trump’s willingness to work on shared policy priorities with a party he has vilified. The idea, said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, is to show voters that Democrats are a governing party, not the leftist mob that Mr. Trump has described — and to extend an arm of cooperation to the president after an electoral rebuke.

Was Amazon’s Headquarters Contest a Bait-and-Switch? Critics Say Yes

The New York Times, David Streitfeld

What a farce. That was one of the immediate reactions when word leaked out on Monday that Amazon’s much-ballyhooed search for a second headquarters outside of Seattle would result in not one, but two new locations. On Twitter, people used farce, sham or stunt to describe what had happened.

Qualcomm Suffers Setback in Antitrust Battle

The Wall Street Journal, Brent Kendall and Tripp Mickle

A federal judge dealt a setback Tuesday to Qualcomm Inc.’s QCOM 0.25% defense against an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, ruling that the chip maker must license some of its industry-essential patents to rival chip suppliers.

New Jersey Lender Explores Sale as Banks Consolidate

The Wall Street Journal, Cara Lombardo and Rachel Louise Ensign

Investors Bancorp Inc. is exploring a possible sale as consolidation continues among the thousands of smaller lenders across the U.S. The Short Hills, N.J., regional bank, which has about 150 branches in the state and in New York, has hired deal adviser Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc., which could start reaching out to potential buyers soon, according to people familiar with the matter.