Trust Busting News Today

thank you for joining us tonight. this is a fox news alert. an historic moment. president trump found guilty on all 34 counts. well go live to the courthouse for reaction in just a moment. but, first: >> i guess we all need, what, to shop at banana republic from now on because thats what it feels like yeah a banana republic. i wish there was something to laugh about but its not. this is a disgraceful day for the united states. a day that america may never recover from. yeah, the jury c...

Opinion: Consolidation in local journalism is a trend that results in poorer coverage, write Kelcey Patrick-Ferree and Shannon Patrick.

Republican Senators Must Choose Lee Over Hawley Kudos then to Jeffrey Westling, a fellow at R Street, who nails it in  an incisive article [2] explaining exactly what is wrong with Sen. Hawley’s, “The Trust Busting for the 21st Century Act.” This bill would amend the Sherman Act to exclude the need for defining a given market in specific circumstances, force defendants to show that commercially reasonable alternatives didn’t exist for anti-competitive conduct, and eliminate the Consum...

Sen. Hawley’s Bill to Break Up Big Corporations Praised and Panned on Right A legislative reform proposed by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to “crack down on mergers and acquisitions by mega-corporations and strengthen antitrust enforcement” is drawing mixed reviews from conservative analysts and Republican campaign strategists. “A small group of woke mega-corporations control the products Americans can buy, the information Americans can receive, and the speech Americans can engage in,” Haw...

That squeeze out competition are ultimately not good for the consumer. you get less choice. you get less quality over time and competition is good. and if amazon is going to have the platform and sell it to me and undercut competitors, government has a role at some point to step in. and small measures probably arent going to do anything. i dont love the fact that they are not taking on censorship of free speech. thats not what elizabeth warren wants to do. trust busting has a history in this cou...

Its not quite clear how it works. they describe it in broader terms. when theyre referencing people who claim that conservative news sites are somehow pushed down in the search results, they talk about how they push up search results that are highly cited, that have been around for a long time. these tend to be more well-known news organizations like cnn or nbc, "wall street journal" or "new york times" or something like that. if you define those outlets as left-leaning or liberal, thats how you...

What makes me really angry about the political response right now is people arent treating those dislocations seriously. you know, when you think about the response to the industrial revolution, an entire new set of political and social institutions was created. you had the progressive era. you had the trust busting and you had the new deal. we are not -- i dont see anyone as inventive as people were then but to say -- to say that this process can be stopped or reversed i also think is wrong. yo...

Accomplish it. as you say, there are a lot of smart people out there figure out how to get around that stuff. >> is there anymore teddy roosevelt in the republican party? trust busting, reform we grew up loving? we all love teddy roosevelt because he was tough on these guys. is there still that spirit in the republican party? >> i didnt know you were that old, chris. i heard earlier you were a socialist. now ive learned two new things about you. >> along with j. edgar hoover. im in really tough ...