Pluralistic: Boss politics antitrust (12 Nov 2024)

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Boss politics antitrust: Trump will use Xi Xinping's "anti-corruption" playbook.
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Pluralistic: Of course we can tax billionaires (15 Oct 2024)

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Of course we can tax billionaires: They disguise their demands ("don't tax billionaires") as observations ("it is technically impossible to tax billionaires").
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Pluralistic: Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust (25 Sep 2024)

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Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust: Big Tobacco's cancer denial playbook is alive and well.
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Pluralistic: What the fuck is a PBM? (23 Sep 2024)

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What the fuck is a PBM? Matt Stoller's got you covered (but your health insurer doesn't).
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Pluralistic: Thinking the unthinkable (19 Sep 2024)

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Thinking the unthinkable: At a certain point, we have to admit that the correct amount of radium in your suppository is zero.
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Pluralistic: Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money (26 Jul 2024)

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Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money: Taking 60 cents out of every reduced-lunch public school dollar.
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Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority (14 Jun 2024)

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Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority: The monopolist's bargain was made to be broken.
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Pluralistic: The health industry's invisible hand is a fist (13 Jun 2024)

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The health industry's invisible hand is a fist: We've tried everything except for the thing that works everywhere else in the world.
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Pluralistic: Ticketmaster jacks us for billions so it can pocket millions (03 Jun 2024)

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Ticketmaster jacks us for billions so it can pocket millions: Corruption is unimaginably wasteful.
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Pluralistic: Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress (30 Apr 2024)

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Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress: The other gig economy.
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