Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)

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Carneyism without Carney: Eh?
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The cost of doing business: "Market definition" is a denial-of-service attack on antitrust law.
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For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity: Competition can't solve the hospice problem.
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Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup: The Tunney Act stirs the pot.
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Big Tech and "captive audience venues": The digital equivalent of baseball stadiums and airport concourses.
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Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy": Regulatory capture, right there out in the open.
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Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?): Structural separation is the ultimate anti-cheat hack.
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Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever: The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is going to let you change banks with a click.
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Lina Khan's future is the future of the Democratic Party – and America: Is the Harris administration committed to the American people, or billionaire donors?
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Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust: Big Tobacco's cancer denial playbook is alive and well.
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