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Spotify Is Mimicking Google’s and Facebook’s Strategy: Will It Ruin Podcasting?
Spotify announced the acquisition of The Ringer, one of the biggest networks in podcasting: a step further in its quest to dominate the audio industry...
US Big Business vs China: How Monopolies Harm National Security
China’s goal is to concentrate power, both within China and over Western industrial commons. The best reaction is not to mimic Chinese autocratic control...
How Google and Facebook Made Digital Advertising Markets Increasingly Opaque to Protect Their Dominance
According to the British Competition and Markets Authority, barriers to entry are so high that not even Amazon is a real threat to Google...
The Amazon of Health Care: How CVS Is Evolving From a Drug Store Chain into a Tech Platform
CVS is built on a dominant chain of drug stores, but it is now trying to turn itself into a "uniquely powerful platform" for...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Growth, Amazon, and Baseball
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.Â
In school, our kids learn about having...
The Real Price of Health Data: Americans Don’t Want to Share Their Records for Free
The 2019 Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey shows that 93 percent of participants don’t want to share their health data with digital...
Like Microsoft, but With More Glitter: The Cheerleading Monopoly Problem
Cheerleading is a huge part of American culture. It’s also an expensive sport, especially after a company called Varsity Brands bought the National Cheerleader...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Bezos’ Phone, Musk Vs Short Sellers, and Boris Johnson
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.Â
Who, us? Kill dissidents? Hack phones? Nooooo,...
Who Benefits When State Governments Award Incentives to Politically-Connected Companies?
A new study finds that a company is nearly four times more likely to receive an economic incentive in a state where the company...
The Uber Bubble: Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?
In the first of three interrelated articles, transportation consultant Hubert Horan discusses Uber's "uncompetitive economics." There is no real innovation in the company's business...
