“TikTok reads 230 of the Communications Decency Act to permit casual indifference to the death of a ten-year-old girl.” - Judge Paul Matey, 2024

Over the past week, jurors have made two different important decisions to hold big tech ac...

Lots of monopoly news, as usual. A jury found Elon Musk committed fraud when he bought Twitter, Trump personally intervened to settle the Ticketmaster case, and Goldman Sachs’s CEO says there’s no antitrust enforcement anymore. That, and more, after the paywall.

This week, I want to focus on a weird part of Trump’s Iran war strategy. Since the start of the conflict, fin...

Last September, late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily kicked off the air by Disney/ABC for making a joke about Donald Trump in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. At the time, I described our concentrated communications syst...

Lots of monopoly news this week, as usual. Economic growth slowed, the $2 trillion unregulated segment of Wall Street known as private credit is tottering as a top private equity official calls lenders ‘arrogant,’ fertilizer and oil prices are going haywire due to the conflict in the Middle East, and there was huge drama in the Ticketmaster antitrust case as Trump tried to gi...

Until the Iran war, the main political pressure on President Donald Trump was high prices, particularly on housing and food. So earlier this year, he announced an executive order<...