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Hi. I work at the American Economic Liberties Project. Also, I wrote the book Goliath, and I write a monopoly-focused newsletter BIG:

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    12 Oct 2021

    I have a big announcement. I'm taking my Substack on monopolies paid. I'll explain more tomorrow, but the gist is that the newsletter has been so much more successful at addressing monopolies than I ever could have dreamed.

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    10 hours ago

    Warren Buffett: America's Folksiest Predator, by who interviews | Worth re-upping in light of Thiel's criticism of Buffett. I think PT is just jealous because Buffett is a much better monopolist.

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  3. 11 hours ago

    It’s easy to identify scams implying does work.

    Warning: Callers are impersonating FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips
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    14 hours ago

    Much of the culture war is a puppet show to keep us divided. Our corpo overlords don't want us to work together. We're animals on a farm to them

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  5. 14 hours ago

    Why are we so divided as a people? It's not just disagreement. We've always disagreed, but have managed to build a society nonetheless by working through problems. But today, monopolists actively prevent us from coming together to form a society. They foster disunity.

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  6. 14 hours ago

    Wilson’s rhetoric and this letter are two sides of same coin, which is dominant tech firms - autocrats really - trying to use culture war signals to divide skeptics of concentrated power on the question of antitrust.

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  7. 14 hours ago

    Meanwhile, pro-monopoly Republican FTC Commissioner , who voted against Trump bringing an antitrust suit against Facebook, attacks liberal populists as critical race theorist crypto-Marxists who despise the rule of law and individual rights.

    Join us! I’ll discuss ... Why the Neo-Brandeisians despise the rule of law, the consumer welfare standard, mergers, efficiencies, low prices, the and the ABA. Plus I’ll highlight the worldview parallels that Neo-Brandeisians share with Marxism and Critical Legal Studies.
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  8. 14 hours ago

    Fascinating example of how Google and Facebook lobbyists wield culture war power from the right and the left. Let's start with the left. Here's the a Google lobbying group attacking conservative over his view that we need stronger antitrust, using gay rights.

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    14 hours ago

    It means that if you can come up with any kind of theory, no matter how far-fetched or nondisprovable, that consumers are better off in even one way, libertarians will oppose doing anything about the practice at issue.

    Jonathan Kanter just pointed out the consumer welfare standard isn't a standard. "If you ask five antitrust lawyers what the consumer welfare standard is you'll get six different answers. Something is not a standard unless there is agreement on what it means."
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    15 hours ago

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    1. Ok, there aren't that many real conspiracies in politics, but the secret plan hatched in 1980 to unleash monopoly power is a real honest-to-goodness plot that worked. And you can actually help reverse it! Please spread this thread around. It matters. 🧵
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    15 hours ago

    I cannot reiterate enough how true and real and horrible this is.

    The liberals did this from the 2000s-2010s, mimicking the conservative movement of the 1970s. And what happened? The Democratic Party funneled wealth and power upwards, exactly as the conservative movement had.
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  12. 15 hours ago

    18. It's rare to have a real conspiracy in politics, and it's equally rare for ordinary people to be able to have an impact. But this is one of those moments. Have at it.

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  13. 15 hours ago

    17. And of course, lots of insider lobbyists and economists have submitted comments. If you want the really technical way to submit one, use the FTC/DOJ submission process here. You can submit your comment anonymously if you'd like.

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  14. 15 hours ago

    16. There is a Midwestern retailer focused on fertilizer consolidation.

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  15. 15 hours ago

    15. Right now, there are a lot of comments from doctors angry that private equity firms are destroying medicine. Here's one.

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  16. 15 hours ago

    14. Are you mad about consolidation in skiing? Rental cars? Have you gone through a merger? What was it like? Tell the government, because our antitrust enforcers actually want to know.

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  17. 15 hours ago

    13. Public comments matter, because the courts are going to want to know that new merger guidelines are based in substance. set up an easy way to submit comments. Tell the government what you think about mergers. The deadline is April 21.

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  18. 15 hours ago

    12. Antitrust enforcers Jonathan Kanter and decided to take a playbook from Reagan, and are rewriting the merger guidelines, but in reverse. And they want your feedback!

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  19. 15 hours ago

    11. Both sides of the aisle have had it with this ‘greed is good’ mentality. Here, for instance, is on Fox News last week demanding Disney and Apple be broken up because of their social power.

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    Ingraham: When Republicans get back into power, Apple and Disney have to understand one thing: Everything will be on the table, your copyright/trademark protection, your special status in certain states, and even your corporate structure itself…
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  20. 15 hours ago

    10. Hence, the nightmare of Live Nation-Ticketmaster, et al.... But there is good news!

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  21. 15 hours ago

    9. Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump all continued to promote monopolies, and over the next 40 years, successive merger waves consolidated nearly every nook and cranny of American commerce. For instance, Wall Street took advantage of Federal policies during COVID with... mergers.

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