Published inMarkerHow Jack Welch’s Success Wrecked the Idea of the American CompanyThe famed GE CEO pioneered mergers and acquisitions, stock buybacks, and offshoringMar 5, 2020A response icon4Mar 5, 2020A response icon4
Biden’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, 2019A response icon2Apr 8, 2019A response icon2
Congressional 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, 2019A response icon5Jan 3, 2019A response icon5
How 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, 2017A response icon1Aug 30, 2017A response icon1
Open 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
Obama 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, 2017A response icon7Apr 27, 2017A response icon7
Towards 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, 2017A response icon7Apr 13, 2017A response icon7
On 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, 2017A response icon35Mar 24, 2017A response icon35
Sheldon 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, 2017A response icon2Mar 20, 2017A response icon2
Medical 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
