Hope on the Horizon - BIG by Matt Stoller
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It's an ugly moment, but if you look closely, monopolies are beginning to lose a few fights.
Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… “Despotism, be it financial or political, is vulnerable, unless it is believed to rest upon a moral sanction. The longing for freedom is ineradicable. It will express itself in protest against servitude and inaction unless the striving for freedom be made to seem immoral.” - Louis Brandeis, 1914 Today I’m writing about how the fight against monopolies is moving into a new stage. We’re actually starting to win some things here and there. In the courts, the regulatory…
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