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“Never Seen Anything Like It:” The Biggest Month in Antitrust in 50 Years — Matt Stoller

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The Google trial, an Amazon complaint, an attack on a private equity roll-up, a giant meat price-fixing suit, going after pharma cheating, and populist GOP antitrust nominations. Astonishing.…The irony of this remarkable month of antitrust activity is that it’s both astonishing, far more bigger than anything anyone expected, yet it’s also only a tiny fraction of what is necessary to reverse the damage monopolists have done to our society. But it is a real start. Good read. Matt Stoller has been working hard reporting on this front and is now quite familiar with the territory.BIG"Never Seen Anything Like It:" The Biggest Month in Antitrust in 50 YearsMatt Stoller

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The Google trial, an Amazon complaint, an attack on a private equity roll-up, a giant meat price-fixing suit, going after pharma cheating, and populist GOP antitrust nominations. Astonishing.…

The irony of this remarkable month of antitrust activity is that it’s both astonishing, far more bigger than anything anyone expected, yet it’s also only a tiny fraction of what is necessary to reverse the damage monopolists have done to our society. But it is a real start. 

Good read. Matt Stoller has been working hard reporting on this front and is now quite familiar with the territory.

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"Never Seen Anything Like It:" The Biggest Month in Antitrust in 50 Years
Matt Stoller
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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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