HeyJaredBIG by Matt Stoller
The history and politics of monopoly power.
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- 39
- Latest publication
- Oct 19, 2026
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- 173K subscribers
- Earliest indexed
- Mar 23, 2026
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Monopoly Round-Up: Pop the Damn AI Bubble Already (opens the original)
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As usual, there was a lot of corporate power-related news last week. Hollywood super-agents launched a campaign to break up the streamers, Dems are musing on doing corporate oversight after the midterms, and the Trump DOJ wants to settle the Apple antitrust case. But before getting to the full round-up, I want to discuss the deflating AI bubble. There were three important and related pieces of news this week on that phenomenon, two you may have noticed, and one you probably didn’t. The first is …
How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill (opens the original)
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In D.C. and Wall Street, it’s an article of faith that the only solution to high prices and inflation is to have the Federal Reserve increase interest rates. A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal profiled Fed official Beth Hammack, a 30 year veteran of Goldman Sachs before joining the central bank in 2024. Like the rest of her colleagues, she’s struggling with an inflationary economy, and trying to figure out the right policy approach to bring down the rate of price growth. While she doesn’t m…
How Expedia Rigs Travel Markets and Raises Your Hotel Prices (opens the original)
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In three weeks, Americans are about to vote for change in a midterm election. It will be the seventh straight election that they have done so, even though nothing seems to make any difference. A few weeks after casting their votes, they will experience the high costs and frustrations of travel, as they head on Thanksgiving and then Christmas holiday. Travel isn’t why people are angry, but the cause of the anger, a rigged system reaching into our pockets constantly and persistently, is very much …
Monopoly Round-Up: AI Cockroaches Scurry Out from Under Nvidia, the Most Valuable Company in the World (opens the original)
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Lots of news, as usual. AI continues to dominate much of the political discourse, in part because spending on things like data centers has exploded while spending on everything else we need, from housing to education to manufacturing, has declined. Meanwhile, the Pope continues to deliver hot takes, reminding us there are hugely significant moral questions underlying the political and economic debates: Before we get to the Good and the Bad news, after the jump for paid subscribers only, I want t…
How Pharma Middlemen Turned the Federal Trade Commission into the Failed Trade Commission (opens the original)
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This issue of BIG is co-authored by Emma Freer, senior fellow for health care at the American Economic Liberties Project, and an anonymous insider who can’t give his name due to a fear of retaliation. Subscribe now Americans have always disliked high pharmaceutical prices, and ripoffs have been commonplace for so long it’s hard to remember a time when things were more reasonable. But believe it or not, in the year 2000, while some patented drugs were out of reach, the vast…
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