Diana Moss

3 weeks ago | promarket.org | Diana Moss

In the wake of Democrats’ losses in 2024, progressives should focus on how antitrust can support a lower cost of living and increase consumer access to essential goods and services, writes Diana Moss. Antitrust has not escaped the chaos rendered by the 2024 presidential election. The Neo-Brandeisian “anti-monopolists” that led the Biden antitrust agencies are out and the “MAGA antitrusters” are in.

1 month ago | pymnts.com | Diana Moss

The U.S. passenger air service industry has been deregulated for 45 years. Since then, the air transportation supply chain and structures of domestic and international markets have been reshaped through consolidation, technology, and globalization. This article suggests that we are at a turning point in domestic competition policy for airlines. The U.S. market has a vital need for multiple airline network and pricing models to support geographic and economic diversity across U.S. consumers. As a...

2 months ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Diana Moss

While campaigning in the late summer of 2024, Donald Trump wooed voters with this declaration: “When I win, I will immediately bring [food] prices down, starting on Day One.” But even before Day One arrived, he was already backpedaling, declaring, “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”Indeed, it is. In the best of circumstances, presidents don’t have the power to unilaterally reduce prices. Yet Trump is adopting policies that are overtly inflationary.

Jan 9, 2025 | promarket.org | Diana Moss

Diana Moss writes that a new Massachusetts economic development bill with a provision for limiting the transferability of tickets to live events has succumbed to Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s campaign to regulate the resale ticket market, strengthening its monopoly and harming consumers. Sports fans and concertgoers have lived with Live Nations-Ticketmaster’s monopoly grip on the ticketing market for decades.

Sep 17, 2024 | progressivepolicy.org | Diana Moss

Competition Matters to Working AmericansCompetition is the lifeblood of a market system. Access to markets, choice, and fair prices and wages preserves consumer, worker, and entrepreneurial freedom. The benefits of this are tangible. Competition keeps the engines of economic activity and growth at a fuller throttle, promotes a more equal distribution of income and wealth, and a better standard of living.