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Business Concentration around the World: 1900-2020 March 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations. In that foundational text for modern economics, Adam Smith described a decentralized ...

Extreme nerd-ery alert: New article analyzing concentration worldwide from 1900-2020. In 1950, the top 1% of companies accounted for 50% of sales. Today that figure is 80%. "The largest 1,000 American companies by revenue account for roughly one half of total revenues of US companies"

Live Nation’s Antitrust Reckoning Kicks Off Before New York Jury Live Nation Entertainment Inc. heads to a jury trial on Monday over claims by the US Justice Department and more than three dozen states that the nation’s largest concert promoter is illegally monopol...

My birthday is next week and DOJ was nice enough to give me a monopolization trial. Me and @sisco.bsky.social will be covering for the next several weeks

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‘Good Riddance’: How a MAGA Acolyte Helped Oust Antitrust Chief Abigail Slater’s ouster as the Trump administration’s antitrust chief was abrupt, yet also a long time coming.

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Justice Department Antitrust Chief Slater Resigns The Justice Department’s top antitrust cop, Abigail Slater, resigned Thursday, calling into question how the Trump administration will handle competition policy moving forward.

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FTC Targets Medical Nonprofits in Trans Kids’ Health Probe Federal enforcers have opened a consumer protection probe into the American Academy of Pediatrics and the leading professional association focused on transgender health care, extending the Trump admin...

The FTC is seeking to investigate the American Academy of Pediatrics and WPATH, the leading professional association for transgender health, over the guidance they issue on gender-affirming care for minors.

A good rundown of the weirdest things that got said at Tuesday's hearing, which was supposed to be about antitrust.

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

Express Scripts Reaches FTC Settlement in Insulin Case Cigna Group’s Express Scripts reached a settlement with federal antitrust enforcers to resolve allegations that the company artificially inflated the price of insulin for patients through illegal reba...

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Paramount’s Ellison Declined Hearing Invite on Warner Bros. Paramount Skydance Corp. Chief Executive Officer David Ellison turned down an invitation to testify before the Senate at an antitrust hearing about the proposed tie-up between Netflix Inc. and Warner ...

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Whistleblower in Bid Rigging Gets DOJ’s First $1 Million Reward An informant who reported illegal bid-rigging of used car auctions to federal authorities received a $1 million reward, the Justice Department said Thursday, the first antitrust whistleblower award un...

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FTC Extends Ad Boycott Probe a Judge Said Violates Free Speech The US Federal Trade Commission is continuing to investigate alleged ad boycotts against conservative websites as part of a probe that a federal court judge ruled last year was retaliation against an ...

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New filing: "FTC v. Meta"
Doc #708: Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit Court

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US FTC to Appeal Court Ruling on Meta Win in Monopoly Case The US Federal Trade Commission will appeal a federal judge’s decision that Meta Platforms Inc. doesn’t have a monopoly in social networking, an agency spokesman said Tuesday.

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It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.

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Meta Is Killing Off Its Only Good Virtual Reality App As it seeks to build AI tools many users don’t want, Meta Platforms Inc. has sacrificed a high-quality product adored by droves. Supernatural, the virtual reality fitness app, is being wound down as p...

"As it seeks to build AI tools many users don’t want, Meta Platforms Inc. has sacrificed a high-quality product adored by droves." Dave Lee pulls no virtual punches here.

FTC’s Ferguson Eyed by White House to Oversee New Fraud Unit Trump administration officials are eyeing Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson for a role overseeing a newly created Justice Department unit focused on combatting nationwide fraud, accord...

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Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company’s Reality Labs division, part of a plan to redirect resources from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearab...

Small antitrust nugget in this: As part of its cuts, Meta says the fitness app Supernatural will stop creating new content. The move comes 2.5 years after the FTC unsuccessfully sued to block the deal, arguing that Meta's acquisition would dampen competition www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter seeking classified state documents. Nothing she wrote about could be considered classified. They simply want to suppress dissent via intimidation. Don't let them. Here is what she wrote. Please share.
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Trump Nominates David Macneil to US Federal Trade Commission President Donald Trump nominated David MacNeil to be a US Federal Trade Commissioner, according to statement posted on the White House website Tuesday.

Trump nominated MacNeil, a Republican donor and billionaire founder of car accessories maker WeatherTech to the FTC after the Senate failed to confirm him last year as Ambassador at Large for Industrial and Manufacturing Competitiveness.

How Rising Corporate Market Power Undermines Democracy    - ProMarket In new research, Seda Basihos investigates the relationship between a decline in market competition and global democratic backsliding. She finds that market concentration leads to increasing…

Important study. Essentially it finds a straight line between the pro-corporate concentration policies of Reagan/Clinton/Thatcher/Blair and the decline of democracy. Interestingly, the mechanism is not income inequality but the raw power the biggest corps wield over government.

X is producing deepfakes at a rate 84x higher than the top 5 dedicated deepfake sites combined, according to an analysis. Victims say there's no recourse. Their images are still up despite reports to X, and those who speak out become targets. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon AI Tool Blindsides Merchants by Offering Products Without Their Knowledge Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses associ...

A bunch of artists and small retailers spent the week between Christmas and the New Year wondering why Amazon had duplicated their product listings on its site, without telling them: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "This is my business. It’s not their business.”

As we, the good people of America, remember J6 with horror and sadness, spare a thought for the residents of the city it happened in.

DC is often overlooked as a place where folks live, but this trauma happened to us, on our streets, in the place we call home.

Another great hire for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: Sam Levine, Lina Khan's head of consumer protection at the FTC, will head the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life

The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.

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Instacart to Pay $60 Million in FTC Consumer Protection Case Grocery delivery firm Instacart will pay $60 million to refund consumers who were deceived into enrolling in the company’s subscription service, Instacart+, the US Federal Trade Commission said Thursd...

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We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars. An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

"There's no antitrust. Antitrust went away when we got a ruling that it was okay to pay Apple $20B to keep everybody else out," CNBC's Jim Cramer.

Pepsi Gave Walmart Special Discounts, Biden-Era FTC Alleged PepsiCo Inc. offers Walmart Inc. special product promotions and discounts that it doesn’t offer to any other retailers, according to a Biden-era antitrust complaint that was unsealed by a court.

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