Matt Stoller

No that’s not the case. I have repeatedly asked you to stop lying about the thesis, but you won’t do that. And you won’t present the actual argument to the people you query.

You’re a fucking con man.

While you feared for your future and organized against fascism, Kamala “Marie Antoinette” Harris, in possession of a vast email list and other resources to help mobilize people, ‘tuned out’ the news and watched cooking shows.

Lance put out a public statement that was deeply respectful to both Derek and me. It is totally inconsistent with Derek's narrative.

You wrote both Luis and Lance disagreed with Basel's piece and said he was distorting their views. When I called them to ask about if that was true, both told me they had never heard of Basel's piece and you never presented it to them. Lance then put out a public statement saying that. You lied.

I called Lance to check, because he originally sent me the data on consolidation.

That is NOT what he said and you know it.

Got it

It’s a lot of work to do a roundup. Having someone automate and steal my work? I’ll just stop doing it.

To say that American foreign policy in the Middle East is being conducted entirely on behalf of a foreign state is reminiscent of antisemitic tropes and has the potential to lend credence to the narratives of those who hate the Jewish People.

It also, unfortunately, happens to be true.

Actually fuck this guy

Monopoly Round-Up: UnitedHealth Group Is Hated, Now It's Falling Apart UnitedHealth Group is under criminal investigation and its CEO just resigned. A once flying Wall Street darling collapses. Plus, a merger boom starts, and crypto gets its payoff.

The monopoly round-up is out. For this one, I went into the crisis at UnitedHealth Group that became clear last week when its CEO resigned and the WSJ reported it's under criminal investigation for Medicare fraud. Is UHG a house of cards? www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

Just want to note why I have contempt for so many Democratic insiders. They knew that Biden was in cognitive decline, those of us who spoke up publicly were attacked and harassed.

Not documenting the Republican megabill because...

Brookfield the Defendant: a Bombshell Lawsuit Brookfield is the defendant in a wrongful termination suit that includes allegations of bribery, securities violations, mistreatment of limited partners and a corporate cash crunch.

Well this complaint alleging accounting fraud to cover up for a cash shortfall at trillion dollar behemoth Brookfield Asset Management is a doozy. brookfield.substack.com/p/brookfield...

Yes I'm a Democrat, and I know who Hogg is. I just don't know him, as in if we met we'd both say "Hi nice to meet you."

I don’t know David Hogg but he seems to be annoying the right people.

The Biggest Threat to CHIPS Success? TSMC’s Monopoly. Antitrust can solve the prisoner’s dilemma of chip manufacturing investment.

TSMC’s monopoly control undermines the CHIPS Act’s intent.
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Good read from @matthewstoller.bsky.social on why Google investors should push for a voluntary breakup, after the Cue dip www.thebignewsletter.com/p/wall-stree...

My statement on Kamala's re-emergence. (No, thank you!) @boldprogressives.org @freedlander.bsky.social

Unusually strong statement from @adamgreen321.bsky.social of PCCC on Harris doing a DNC fundraiser tomorrow: (via email)

White House budget takes an ax to the fund that keeps rural airline routes afloat, the Essential Air Service.

The Sky Is Red: Meta's Flailing Defense Takes Serious Credibility Hit Meta's in-house consumer survey guru Curtiss Cobb defends the indefensible in Day 11 of FTC breakup trial after executives from Tumblr and TikTok testify.

Big Tech on Trial continues to do amazing work on the Meta antitrust trial. Yesterday, Meta’s Curtiss Cobb, the head of its internal Demography and Survey Science team, got wrecked for misleading testimony. And a TikTok exec testified on how they compete. www.bigtechontrial.com/p/the-sky-is...

A judge just killed Apple’s control over app stores, Google has lost three antitrust cases, and we just beat Jim Jordan’s attempt to defang antitrust.

Maybe rethink your priors!

Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down.

Apple has lost power over mobile phones, as developers will now be able to accept payment outside the app store without having to hand over the 30% vig.

This will be the first time we'll see a real world impact from an antitrust remedy against a big tech titan. open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...

Well we beat it back with help from Steve Bannon

House GOP Proposes Eliminating Key Antitrust Law House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan released a bill to move all antitrust work from the Federal Trade Commission to the Department of Justice, deleting a key antitrust law. PBMs and Amazon could benefit.

House Republican Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan is trying to secretly eliminate the antitrust case against UnitedHealth Group's Optum PBM unit by getting rid of a key antitrust law.
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Monopoly Round-Up: Google Generated $468 Billion Delaying Its Antitrust Trial The Google and Meta trials are taking way too long, and both companies are garnering huge additional revenue as a result. Plus, fake trade deals, and Trump is running out of lawyers.

The monopoly round-up for the week is out. Why is Wall Street unconcerned over Google's antitrust losses? Probably because Google has generated an additional half a trillion in revenue while on trial for business methods a judge called illegal. Crime pays.
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How Monopolies Could Exploit the Tariff Shock Donald Trump's tariff choices have already had significant impacts on small businesses, who can't deal with shocks. Economic termites could feast, and price gouging and fixing could accelerate.

Some scary numbers came out showing how Biden redistributed wealth upward to big business during the post-Covid supply shocks. Will Trump make the same mistake?

I go over the various pricing games that monopolists played, and whether we'll see a repeat. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-monopo...

While I’m perseverating on the economy this morning, Matt Stoller uses Franz Neumann’s book Behemoth to connect some fascism c. democracy dots.

From his conclusion:
“There is no world in which Google flourishes as a monopoly and America flourishes as a political democracy. We must choose.”

Of course

Feds accuse Uber of charging customers for subscriptions without consent | TechCrunch The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Monday against Uber, alleging the ride-hail and delivery giant charged customers for its Uber One

Good stuff from the Federal Trade Commission against Uber. Former Republican FTC commissioner Christine Wilson, who now works for Kamala Harris's brother-in-law and Uber chief counsel Tony West, is very upset. So is Bush FTC Chair Tim Muris. So clubby. techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/f...