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Money in Politics

Public Trust in Government Falls as Government Shutdown Continues

Linda Wu
Amid the longest government shutdown in US history, and with no light at the end of the tunnel, the latest Financial Trust Index (FTI)...
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook, Extreme Inequality, and Globalization: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2018

ProMarket writers
As 2018 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.     The early mentor to Mark...
Antitrust and Competition

The Solution to the Auditing Industry’s Oligopoly Problem? More Competition

Karthik Ramanna
The UK’s reviews of the Big Four auditing firms have largely adopted an approach of more regulation and government oversight. This approach is not...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

“Short Sellers Don't Exist to Fix the Problems. They Exist to Shed Light on the Problems”

Guy Rolnik
In an interview with ProMarket, Fahmi Quadir, the short seller whose bet against Valeant in 2015 helped expose the company's misdeeds, talks about short...
Antitrust and Competition

One Year After the Net Neutrality Repeal: the FCC Has Abdicated Its Role Protecting Consumers and Competition

Gigi Sohn
Every promise made by broadband providers and every reason cited by the FCC in its decision to eliminate the net neutrality rules has proven...
Academic Capture

“US Regulators Have Essentially Become Do-Nothing Institutions”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Jonathan Tepper talks about the rise of America’s oligopoly problem, why he believes antimonopoly is not a left-right issue,...
Academic Capture

Mercenary Science: How Corporate Partnerships Can Corrupt Public Universities

Joshua Hunt
UC Berkeley’s disastrous partnerships with Novartis and BP are cautionary examples of all that could go wrong when public universities allow private interests to...
Antitrust and Competition

Subsidies to Amazon Are Uneconomical, Un-American, and Unconstitutional

Luigi Zingales
Corporate subsidies are a negative-sum game. They foster crony capitalism, hurt productivity growth and inflict great harm on product market competition. As soon as Amazon announced...
Regulatory Capture

Ten Years After the Financial Crisis: “We Are Safer, But Not As Safe As We Should and Could Be”

Thom Wetzer
Experts from academia and industry gathered at the University of Oxford to revisit what went wrong in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis,...
Antitrust and Competition

“In the Wake of the 2008 Crisis, You Can't Ignore the Influence of Big Business on Economic Policy”

Asher Schechter
Historian and author Adam Tooze talks to ProMarket about how the financial crisis “remade” American capitalism, why the US response to the crisis was...
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