{"id":17215,"date":"2018-11-29T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17215"},"modified":"2018-11-29T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:50:09","slug":"the-monopolization-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17215","title":{"rendered":"The Monopolization of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The federal government, under presidents of both parties, has largely surrendered to monopoly power. \u201cThe \u2018anti\u2019 in \u2018antitrust\u2019 has been discarded,\u201d as the legal scholar Tim Wu puts it in his new book, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/602170\/the-curse-of-bigness-by-tim-wu\/9781984843654\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Curse of Bigness.\u201d<\/a> Washington allows most megamergers to proceed either straight up or with only fig-leaf changes. The government has also done nothing to prevent the emergence of dominant new technology companies that mimic the old AT&amp;T monopoly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/25\/opinion\/monopolies-in-the-us.html\">Opinion | The Monopolization of America &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government, under presidents of both parties, has largely surrendered to monopoly power. \u201cThe \u2018anti\u2019 in \u2018antitrust\u2019 has been discarded,\u201d as the legal scholar Tim Wu puts it in his new book, \u201cThe Curse of Bigness.\u201d Washington allows most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17215\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091],"tags":[1338,1114,47],"class_list":["post-17215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-antitrust","tag-legislation","tag-monopolistic-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17216,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions\/17216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}