Just finished William Hogeland's The Hamilton Scheme. A lot to think about. Very powerful work. amazon.com/dp/0374167834?…

Quite the Facebook beachhead in Fetterman's Senate office these days.

RealPage is absolutely cooked. The defense will be they're merely generating 'recommendations' for price hikes. In docs from the DC lawsuit, we can see that is a total ruse. RP's contracts explicitly impose compliance rates on landlords and punish any deviation.

We wrote about fracking companies deliberately pulling back on production to pull prices highe two years ago. (prospect.org/environment/fr…) Matt provides some additional context of a collusive arrangement among the oil powers:

It was a 5-0 vote, which means GOP Commissioners Melissa Holyoak and Andrew Ferguson thought the case was compelling. Weird how the WSJ doesn’t mention that Mitch McConnell picks agreed with the merger challenge.

On May 18, 1998, the DOJ and 20 states sued Microsoft for antitrust violations. On May 22, a trial date was set. Trial began on October 19, just 5 months after the complaint was filed.

The Google Search case took 3 years to bring to trial, in the same court. Why this disparity?

Whoa wtf!

New cars are very anxious.

Matt Stoller Good question x.com/EJM048/status/…

Good question

Annals of anti-monopoly: “The antitrust law was passed, as most of you know, in answer to [Grover] Cleveland’s campaign that the tariff was mother of trusts…” Thurman Arnold, 1939. Why is this simple fact absent from most historical accounts of the enactment of the Sherman Act?

This week’s monopoly round-up centers on inflation numbers, and specifically gas prices. Why are they up again? One answer is that Texas secretly joined OPEC, and is now colluding with Saudi Arabia for higher gas prices. thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-rou…

Improvement at The Boeing Company starts with producing quality products one at a time off the assembly line, americanair CEO Robert Isom says, urging the OEM to get back to the basics—looking for results, not promises. #Boeing

aviationweek.com/air-transport/…

If as likely the current Israel war expands to Lebanon and beyond this will mean escalated U.S. involvement, more domestic unrest, and then intensified censorship and suppression of that unrest. It is vicious cycle which is why its better to stay out of foreign ethnic conflicts.

“Capital should be at the service of labor and not labor at the service of capital.” — St. John Paul II

Boeing's 'board now leans towards moving headquarters away from its current location in Arlington, Va., and back to the Seattle area'

| Fortune fortune.com/2024/04/27/boe…

Yea this is immoral and unconstitutional and I’m consistently against the use of Israel victimhood to justify suppression of free speech. Where were you when Ibram Kendi was proposing the exact same thing to oversee literally all of American government a few years ago?

Huh. Booksellers trying to intervene in FTC’s Amazon antitrust case.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

The Chamber’s noncompete challenge is assigned to Trump appointee Judge J. Campbell Barker, a hired hand.

Since 2020, Barker has struck down the CDC’s pandemic eviction moratorium, CFPB’s banking discrimination rule, FDA cigarette warning labels, and NLRB’s joint employee rule.

NEW: As Bain Capital explores sale/IPO of @VarsityBrands, the companies are settling a 2nd antitrust lawsuit, clearing Varsity's deck of litigation and continuing to keep its profitable/controversial cheer business away from a jury. Story for Sportico:

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