The new Golden Age of Robber Barons

25th January 2019 by David Boyle Leave a Comment

In this issue of our Open Markets Outlook:

As a new Congress is inaugurated, there is hope that action on tech monopolies may finally take shape
There is now only one long-run printer left in the USA to print the large magazines. Why?
The New Economics Foundation publishes a new report on tackling the abuse of personal data in a way that forces the tech giants to change their business models
Why did the Federal Trade Commission stop collecting data on market power?
Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich claims that we have entered ‘a new gilded age of robber baron capitalism’.

Filed Under: System Renewal, Cohesive Capitalism | Tagged With: Business, Competition Policy, Open Markets, Technology, Facebook, Google, Apple, USA

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