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The Fed is About to Make Owning Physical Assets a Game All Banks Can Play
Last week, Federal Reserve officials leaked to the Wall Street Journal their tentative plan to limit the ability of Goldman Sachs and big banks to ...
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New York's Looming Food Disaster
Hurricane Sandy exposed striking vulnerabilities in the city's supply chains.
In New York City, locating a bite to eat is rarely a difficult task. The city is a food paradise or, depending on your mood, a place of overwhelmin...
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The Industrial Policy That America Has Forgotten
In the late 1940s, the United States adopted an industrial policy as sophisticated as any in world history. Rather than seek to build up power and ...
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The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldman Sachs
And that should worry you.
In July, the public learned that Goldman Sachs and several other large banks have morphed into giant merchants of physical goods, routinely shippin...
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Experts on Lawsuit to Block American Airlines-US Airways Merger
Justice Dept. Suit Argues Tie-Up Would Result in Steeper Airfares, Higher Fees, and Fewer Choices
Washington, DC — The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit today to block a proposed merger between American Airlines and US Airway...
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In The Tank: Bacon, China and the American Farmer
What does it mean when a Chinese company buys Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the U.S.? This podcast has all the answers. Chris Leon...
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A King of Beers?
Concentration of Power Over America's Alcohol Markets is Bad for Consumers. It Also Imperils Constitutional and Moral Balances.
In some respects, America’s market for beer has never looked healthier. Where fewer than a hundred brewers operated a generation ago, we now can co...
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New Study Finds Declining Rates of Entrepreneurship
Editor's Note: This is a guest blog post authored by Lina Khan, program associate with New America's Markets, Enterprise and Resiliency Initiative....
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Cornered
The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Regular Harpers and Financial Times contributor Barry C. Lynn paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, ...
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End of the Line
The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
Though some might view his concerns as excessively alarmist, Lynn delivers a welcome new facet to the antiglobalization debate, moving well beyond ...