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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…
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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…