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Antitrust

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On November 12, 2015
Your long read of the day should be David Dayen's essay on the need for a new era of antitrust enforcement and perhaps new legislation. After all, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act did not anticipate much about the present. You may not be surprised to find...
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The Low-Wage New Industrial Jobs

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On November 2, 2015
When wages and working conditions in the United States get bad enough, a few industrial jobs begin returning to the U.S. But most of those jobs are hard and bad, with low wages and poor working conditions. Companies use the same strategies of employment obfuscation...
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Marshall Steinbaum has a very useful overview of a major problem that we don't talk about enough--the hidden and therefore untaxed wealth of corporations. But if the economics is so clearly against tax havens and the policy solutions are straightforward, then how did we get...
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Creeping Lochnerism

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On September 1, 2015
Above: The victims of the Triangle Fire, i.e., the libertarian vision of America's future Brian Beutler's piece on libertarians' goal to return the U.S. to the Lochner Era through the courts should scare you. It's hardly news to political junkies that libertarians seek to destroy...

On Amazon

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On August 15, 2015

Above: Jeff Bezos, Sociopath Everyone is talking about the big Amazon story in the Times today. This should be an open thread for that. I don't have a whole lot.

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