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Break up the cable monopolies? Democrats propose new competition laws

Senate and House Democratic leaders today proposed new antitrust laws that could prevent many of the biggest mergers and break up monopolies in broadband and other industries. "Right now our antitrust ... read more

Democrats are slamming cable and telecom companies in their new ‘Better Deal’ platform

Democrats are taking cable and telecom companies to task over what many consumers have long bemoaned: rising prices and a lack of competition ... of antitrust laws and a push against corporate ... read more

Momentum grows to break up big tech, as Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple face scrutiny

Last month, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes laid into CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a nearly 6,000-word New York Times op-ed that sounded the alarm on the social network's alleged monopoly ... competition ... read more

Break Up Big Tech? Some Say Not So Fast

House Democrats, meanwhile, are launching an antitrust probe of their own over competition in the tech ... are skeptical that using antitrust laws to break up Big Tech—at least in the way that has ... read more

“A Better Deal”? Dissecting the Democrats’ “Populist” Turn in Rhetoric and Reality

Finally, there is the Democrats’ anti-monopoly proposal. In his editorial in the New York Times, Schumer writes: “Right now our antitrust laws ... cable bills and airline tickets to food and health ... read more

The Government’s Failure to Block the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Could Lead to Even Bigger Monopolies

The anti-monopoly movement also had a small victory last week with the formation of a new tech task force at the FTC. Various advocacy groups have been urging the FTC in recent months to break up ... read more

Warren Takes on Comcast So You Don't Have To

Warren's speech at a forum on monopolies came as part of her advocacy for greater enforcement of antitrust laws as American consumers pay higher prices for cable and Internet services ... to force the ... read more

Obama’s Latest Executive Order Designed To Break Up Monopolies And Boost Market Competition, Starting With Cable Boxes

The president said his administration is starting with cable company set-top boxes, whose prices have soared 185 percent in recent years. But that's just the beginning. Here’s why the White House’s ... read more

The Return of Monopoly

Monopoly—the ultimate enemy of free-market competition—now ... emerging Brandeisian wing of the Democratic Party. In 2015, she called for reimposing Glass-Steagall, the powerful anti-monopoly law ... read more

It’s not just banks anymore. Democrats want to break up all kinds of big business.

The pitch for stricter enforcement of antitrust laws ... competition in their industry. For the biggest deals, the merging corporations' lawyers would have to persuade a judge that merging would be ... read more

The Most Important 2016 Issue You Don’t Know About

We have four cable and Internet companies providing most of the nation’s cell-phone and television service. We have four big commercial banks, five big insurance companies (only three if two proposed ... read more