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4 days ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
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4 days ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here. In late May, JP Morgan’s chief investment strategist Michael Cembalest went on the podcast Odd Lots, to discuss the stock market with co-hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway. He asked a question a lot of us have. Why haven’t the antitrust laws worked to constrain big tech, in particular Google?
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6 days ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
This week’s monopoly round-up has a lot of useful news, as usual.
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1 week ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here. Two days ago, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed the nation’s strictest law against corporate control of health care practices in the state. It’s a major defeat for private equity and large health insurers, and something that advocates and physicians have been advocating for years, as more and more of the state’s capacity got bought up by financiers.
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1 week ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
Today’s round-up has a lot of stuff. The war between Musk and Trump could lead to significant changes in personnel in the administration, the copyright office put out a potential fix for McDonald’s ice cream machines, and an appeals court refused to grant Apple’s emergency request to give it back its app store monopoly. Before going to that, I’m going to focus on something personal, which is my role as an American elite, because it intersects with a political fight that’s going on right now.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here. I had planned to write something on the possible Google remedy, but the political world is riveted by the bitter feud that has broken out between the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, and the President, Donald Trump.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
Today’s monopoly round-up is a bit shorter than usual, as I’ve been on vacation for the past week. The biggest piece of news is that the Trump administration’s trade policy took a big hit. But in addition, there are updates on how the key judge overseeing Google’s antitrust loss sees the possibility of a break-up, the FTC waived through a a major chip software merger, and noncompete bans continue to advance in states. Ok, let’s start with Trump trade policy, which got rolled back in two ways.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
This week’s focus is the Trump Federal Trade Commission abruptly ending a lawsuit against Pepsi (and de facto Walmart) for discriminating against smaller stores. After that I’ll have the round-up, which is full of monopoly-related news, including a major change to the Apple app store, a big Supreme Court ruling calling the Federal Reserve the fourth branch of government, and the GOP tax bill passing the house. A note, I’m going on vacation next week, so I won’t have much for next Sunday.
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1 month ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
Late last month, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued a stinging order against Apple as part of the longstanding antitrust battle between Epic Games and the phone giant. The case was started in 2020 when Epic Games changed its popular Fortnite game app on the iPhone to allow “players to bypass Apple’s payment system for in-game purchases, and use a proprietary Epic payment option instead.” Apple in turn kicked Fortnite out of the app store, citing the breach of its app store rules.
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1 month ago | 
thebignewsletter.com | Matt Stoller
Lots of stuff in the monopoly round-up. The merger boom is back with Charter buying Cox, Apple again refused to comply with a court order, and there’s a new antitrust lawsuit against the dialysis duopoly. Plus a lot more. I’ll start with two events at the biggest health care company in America, UnitedHealth Group, a corporation so reviled that large numbers of Americans cheered when one of the firm’s executives was assassinated in December.