execs departing the company. The ruckus spurred a rare response from the FTC, signaling the tech mogul will be watched closely by Washington. — Where to begin? What real ly sparked the fire was Wednesday night’s rollout of Twitter’s new subscription policy, which allows users to pay $8 a month for “blue check” verification. The rollout triggered a wave
best deterrent against illegal concentrations of power in our economy. Criminal charges are almost always on the table in corporate fraud investigations, and they should be a real threat in corporate monopoly investigations too.” Section 2 of the Sherman Act explicitly states that monopolization is a felony, punishable by fines up to $100 million and imprisonment
an immediate risk to our national security,"Â said Lucas Kunce, National Security Director at the American Economic Liberties Project. "Aerojet has long been an engineering company that makes real products with low margins. Â Private equity and hedge funds don't invest in companies like Aerojet for their low to mid-single-digit sales growth. Â They take stakes in these
society in general over the astronomical ticket prices to the band’s reunion tour—billboard has cited ticket prices as high as $600 in some cities. this is, un for tunately, the logical outcome of the entertainment monopoly ticketmaster has built since it merged with live nation, creating a live events behemoth in which a huge portion
to track your movements, to track even where things are placed in your home, what’s going on outside your front door. They can create this incredibly complex, detailed data profile that they can then use to expand and grow their own business,” Miller said. “And through that process, to push out competitors that simply could