Anti-Trust

The Antitrust Division sued Visa for levying a private sales tax on every merchant in America. It's about time. The DOJ is going to win, as this case looks a lot like the case against Google search.

Complaint cites "steep penalties" for Microsoft customers using other providers.

Visa and Mastercard have surged over the past two decades, reaching a combined $1 trillion market cap. That has attracted unwanted attention from regulators.

From 2020-2024, rent prices spiked by a third. How much of that is due to collusion by corporate landlords and a software coordinator? And where is the Fed?

Another Google antitrust trial starts on Monday. If Google loses, it'll be three strikes. At some point, they will give up and realize that the writing is on the wall for their current business model.

Today, Apple unveiled new AirPods that can function as hearing aids, made possible by Joe Biden's choice to have the Food and Drug Administration break the incumbent hearing aid cartel.

The Antitrust Division finally sued RealPage for orchestrating a conspiracy among corporate landlords and illegally hiking rents for millions in cities across the country.

Company documents called SafeTix a ‘game-changer.’

Henry George was right about land values. And today we have a homebuilder cartel rooted in control of land and financing.

After losing a key antitrust case this week, Google has to square off next month against government prosecutors claiming the giant also abused its dominance of search advertising technology.

Algorithmic collusion appears to be spreading to more and more industries. And existing laws may not be equipped to stop it.

Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by excluding rivals from the general search engine market in order to maintain its monopoly. What happens now?

It is a major blow to Alphabet, Google's parent company, and could reshape how technology giants operate.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman gave $10 million to Harris' campaign and demanded an end to Biden's tariff and antitrust policies. Bernie Sanders reacted angrily.

With Joe Biden not running for re-election, his running mate Kamala Harris is now in the spotlight. Her record on monopolies and financial concentration is mixed. Will she cede populism to the right?

4% of all the money in America flows through a few mafia-like health care conglomerates. The FTC just released a ground-breaking report on how they operate. And it is gearing up to sue.

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are key part of US's high drug costs, report finds.

Euro nation's monopoly gendarmes cheesed off with GPU giant's dominance

Almost two years after two dozen streaming subscribers sued the Mouse House over anticompetitive tactics, the case is moving forward

The European Union on Tuesday accused Microsoft of breaching antitrust rules with the "abusive" bundling of its Teams and Office products.

Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.

A local auto mechanic has to deal with so many junk fees that he's afraid of the future. And why wouldn't he be? The future isn't what we thought it could be.

In 2016, Donald Trump went after CEOs so often that the Wall Street Journal set up a tracker of stocks whose leaders he insulted. No longer. What happened?

Hollywood studio pledges to keep the Drafthouse model going

Why is this economy so difficult to manage? The macro statistics are hiding the experience of being cheated.

Google has a political machine run by an operative Josh Wright. Wright just went down in a sordid scandal. What this saga shows is far more than the antitrust establishment wants you to see.

In an astonishing move, Google cut a check to the U.S. government over an antitrust case, in the hopes of avoiding a jury trial. And it argues such jury trials are unconstitutional.

The "People's Lawyer" Jonathan Kanter wants to make concerts and live events more affordable, and today the Department of Justice filed suit to make it happen.

In response to recent antitrust charges, Live Nation claims it is barely profitable. But then quietly it also just flagged internal accounting issues on its investor docs. What is going on?

The DOJ is seeking a breakup of Live Nation.

Companies in the oil, hotel, meat and other sectors are price-gouging the US public. They’re not hiding it, either

A few months ago, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to change its app store rules. They didn't. Now she's very angry. Plus, the Antitrust Division is gearing up to go at Big Medicine.

Gas prices are going up. A new lawsuit says the reason is American shale producers have illegally cut capacity in league with the global oil cartel. In other words, Texas joined OPEC.

It's been a long Winter, but the antitrust trial of the century (thus far) returns. The judge continues to keep it too secret, which is why you haven't heard about it. But there's now an audio line.

The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing the average family $3,000 last year. The question is, what can we do about it?

Workers at a Volkwagon factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are now voting on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). Is this the restart of a unionized nation?