Tag: Monopoly
The Man Corporate America Is Most Afraid Of
The Department just blocked the Spirit-JetBlue merger and it's coming for Google, Apple, and Ticketmaster next. The man behind it is Jonathan Kanter, who runs…
March 26, 2024
Grocery Prices Keep Rising. This Could Stop It.
If Kroger and Albertsons merge, they'd create the biggest supermarket chain in the country and your sky-high grocery bill will get even higher. We already…
December 15, 2023
What Scorpion Venom Has To Do With Amazon’s Monopoly
Video produced and hosted by Meagan Day An Amazon customer ordered a hat. She received a vial of scorpion venom instead. That customer, writer Meagan…
November 14, 2023
How Four Companies Took Over Our Food Supply
Did you know you can patent a living thing? Decades of lobbying made that possible. Now just four companies control the intellectual property behind nearly…
October 17, 2023
We Uncovered a Corporate Price-Gouging Conspiracy
Huge corporations are colluding to raise chicken prices — up 61% over the last 15 years. But Washington state is leading a charge to fight…
July 14, 2023
Why Hollywood Can’t Stop Making Sequels, Prequels and Reboots
If you've been watching movie trailers for upcoming releases and noticed everything is either based on a book, a sequel, or yet another movie from…
June 20, 2023
This Is The Real Reason Insulin Prices Are Falling
Sean Morrow: Hey, I’m Sean, I’m a writer for More Perfect Union. You might remember me from this video where I confessed to accidentally causing…
April 6, 2023
We Uncovered Why Trains Keep Derailing
Paula Pecorella: You may have noticed a ton of freight trains derailing in the news lately. [News Clips]: Another Norfolk-Southern train derails in Ohio.. 30,000…
March 23, 2023
What’s Really Behind Eggflation?
Hosted by June Xie June Xie: Eggs. A typically unremarkable grocery list staple for most Americans became a point of financial stress and confusion over…
March 9, 2023
The Death Of Rural America: Greedy Monopolies And Farmer Suicides
Narrated by Beau of the Fifth Column for the Classroom Coy Young: The bank’s breathing down your neck, they want their money and you know.…
February 3, 2023
The Largest U.S. Spice Company Is Raising Prices in America – But Not China
McCormick & Co., the world’s largest spice and seasoning company, is looking to recover losses from inflation by raising prices for American consumers, but not…
July 22, 2022
What’s Really Behind The Baby Formula Shortage?
By Moe Tkacik, Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties ProjectVideo edited by Josh Hirschfeld-Kroen By now you've heard about the shortage of baby formula…
May 20, 2022