via breitbart: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and several states sued Google on Tuesday, alleging that its dominance in digital advertising harms competition. The government alleges that Google’s plan to assert dominance has been to “neutralize or eliminate” rivals …
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) – Amazon.com says the idea it’s illegally squeezing its merchants is “exactly backwards.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-lawsuit-against-amazon-blocking-price last week accused the company started and chaired by Jeff Bezos of violating antitrust law, in the $1.3 …
Feels like they could come out and say, “Yes, we’re a monopoly” and no meaningful action would be taken by DC right now. — Conor Sen (@conorsen) February 19, 2022
by Peter Schiff of Peter Schiff Podcast The stock market is rotating, not crashing. Weak economic data will make it harder for the Fed to tighten. Fed may begin blaming rising oil prices on economic slowdown. Market will assign premium to companies producing …
This documentary film highlights the creation of the Federal Reserve System and explains the difference between constitutional monetary policy and unsound money. It also gives a brief history on the different types of currencies used in history.
‘Trey’s Trades’ host Trey Collins discusses the SEC considering rule changes for stock-shorting. h/t Stephanie Shepard
The future of digital commerce on your iPhone could be influenced by how courts resolved questions about market control following technological innovations that disrupted previous generations: credit cards and railroads. With the courtroom battle between Epic Games Inc. and Apple …
Parler Says It Informed FBI of Violent Content Before Capitol Riot: Social-media platform tells House committee it has been unfairly targeted by Big Tech. The conservative-leaning social-media network Parler referred violent content from its platform to the FBI more than …
https://youtu.be/BQHndTaXXQo This is scandalous. Should be forbidden. Those people’s reason to be is to be our voice. How dare a stupid company decide what our democracy chooses AC
By John Mauldin Without realizing it, we’ve become a nation of monopolies. A large and growing part of our economy is “owned” by a handful of companies that face little competition. They have no incentive to deliver better products or …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the absurdity of recent comments by the IMF’s Christine Lagarde where she warned of a serious monopoly problem… in the future… Lagarde’s plan was essentially to bring in more …
by Dave A fascinating post by Wolf Richter, quoting an NBER report/model that found lowering rates too far, for too long, gives an undue advantage to the market leader. This reduces competition, which in turn reduces productivity, and also ends …
by WarSanchez I think most people, even the younger generations have hear the saying “A Diamond is Forever”. It was made famous be the De Beers Group, which was at it’s peak the sole power player in the diamond market. …
Canadian Media Monopoly denies Free Speech to Faith Goldy (Link to article below) https://nationalpost.com/news/bell-be…
From Ray Dalio: I find that whenever I start talking about cycles, particularly big, long-term cycles, people’s eyebrows go up; the reactions I elicit are similar to those I’d expect if I were talking about astrology. For that reason, I want …
Monopoly was actually designed as a simulation of modern capitalism and to demonstrate its shortcomings. The fiat monetary system is a broken and stupid system. h/t riversforever
If you are a regular person, no matter what side you are on, or what your political leanings are you are being controlled via grrrgraphics: n early America many cities had ‘town squares’ in which citizens could stand on soapboxes …
Will Disney do to fox what they did to Star Wars? Will they push an agenda rather than focus on making quality content? Is this the end of television as we know it? h/t RMFN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ha4XUmeGPs Lionel provides a powerful allegory to explain how big tech has a giant monopoly on information to control your mind.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: What if We Treated Public Schools as Monopolies? If monopolies are bad, then public schooling is possibly the worst kind of monopoly. Many of my friends who defend public education are also the political type who are …
via Zero Hedge: Vladimir Putin recently addressed the need for Russia to move away from USD-denominated trade, especially in the oil market. Russia continues to take actions on two fronts to make this a reality; they are an active participant …
● As waves of homeless descend onto trains, L.A. tries a new strategy: social workers on the subway. ● ‘Simply unacceptable’: Shocking footage of junkies taking over San Francisco BART station, and openly shooting up in front of commuters, sparks the mayor …
Google already broke itself up into the Alphabet. I personally believe they did it specifically to fend off anti-trust suits. h/t pray_for_kekistan
Following Donald Trump’s press conference, his deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka accuses the BBC and Newsnight of being “fake news” in this heated extended interview with Evan Davis. More: Best Quote: “Do you actually even know what the definition of fake …