Matt StollerinMarkerHow Jack Welch’s Success Wrecked the Idea of the American CompanyThe famed GE CEO pioneered mergers and acquisitions, stock buybacks, and offshoring·4 min read·Mar 5, 2020--4--4
Matt StollerBiden’s Laziness ProblemA lot of commentary has gone into Biden’s potential 2020 run, and the debate seems to come down whether one believes, as Valerie Jarrett…4 min read·Apr 8, 2019--2--2
Matt StollerCongressional Staffing for Dummies: The Pay Go DisputeThere are a lot of people arguing about this thing called Pay Go. Here’s my attempted explanation of what Pay Go is and how it intersects…15 min read·Jan 3, 2019--5--5
Matt StollerHow to Educate Yourself on Monopoly PowerI get asked quite frequently for more information on monopolies and concentrated financial power. Books, papers articles, and so forth. So…5 min read·Aug 30, 2017--1--1
Matt StollerOpen Markets Statement on the Democrats’ ‘Better Deal’ Antitrust Agenda and Monopoly ResourcesThe following is from Barry Lynn, Director of the Open Markets Program at New America.2 min read·Jul 24, 2017----
Matt StollerObama the HamiltonianWhen former President Barack Obama decided to take $400,000 from a Wall Street investment bank for the first paid speech of his…5 min read·Apr 27, 2017--7--7
Matt StollerTowards Democratic Regulation of the Airline IndustryIn the reaction to the the United Airlines fiasco, we see something very powerful. Americans are using words like corporate concentration…8 min read·Apr 13, 2017--7--7
Matt StollerOn Mocking Dying Working Class White PeopleI’m just going to cut and paste comments from this story at the Huffington Post on white working class people dying of despair. Keep in…5 min read·Mar 24, 2017--36--36
Matt StollerSheldon Whitehouse’s Shockingly Awesome Gorsuch StatementThere’s been a lot of bullshit peddled by the press and by insiders that Neil Gorsuch can’t be beaten, that Democrats don’t have a message…3 min read·Mar 20, 2017--2--2
Matt StollerMedical Politics, Medicare, and SmokingI found this anecdote fascinating. It is about the fight to create Medicare in 1964, and it’s from Julian Zelizer’s “The Fierce Urgency of…1 min read·Apr 12, 2015----