Matt StollerinMarkerHow Jack Welch’s Success Wrecked the Idea of the American CompanyThe famed GE CEO pioneered mergers and acquisitions, stock buybacks, and offshoringMar 5, 20204Mar 5, 20204
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…Apr 8, 20192Apr 8, 20192
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…Jan 3, 20195Jan 3, 20195
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…Aug 30, 20171Aug 30, 20171
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.Jul 24, 2017Jul 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…Apr 27, 20177Apr 27, 20177
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…Apr 13, 20177Apr 13, 20177
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…Mar 24, 201736Mar 24, 201736
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…Mar 20, 20172Mar 20, 20172
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…Apr 12, 2015Apr 12, 2015