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Hal Singer

@halsinger

MD @ EconOne | Prof @EconUofU | ED @ UtahProject | NYTimes: "one expert for the plaintiffs" | Prospect:"preeminent watchdog of The Economist's most wrong takes"

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Hal Singer@halsinger·
Epilogue: By coincidence, Comcast announced last month its plans to spin off its NBC network division. At least that episode of a distribution platform swallowing content lasted more than three years!
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The performance of Microsoft’s gaming division since it gobbled up Activision has been an unmitigated disaster. They’re firing another 3,200 workers and disposing of studios. In light of its “strategic blunders,” investors are calling for it to spin off its gaming business entirely. The FTC tried to stop the acquisition under a theory of vertical foreclosure—that the platform would deny rivals access to its newly acquired content. But perhaps a better theory for stopping these vertical mergers, including Facebook’s failed acquisition of Within, is that vertically integrated platforms are where independent content goes to die. The bloated bureacracy of a conglomerate is just too big and unwieldy to cultivate talent.
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Ashleyy
Ashleyy@dontsippy·
They supported Andrew Cuomo just a few months ago. They defended Biden against sexual assault allegations until he was no longer politically useful. They don’t care about women they care about protecting allies and weaponizing accusations against political opponents. They act in bad faith, and their primary objective is to undermine any momentum on the left that challenges the political establishment.
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You’ve been given free access to this story from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. Two cheers for Trump Accounts economist.com/leaders/2026/0…
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This is a wild admission by @TheEconomist. The next generation will not buy into the “free enterprise” system unless they are coopted via stock market ownership, funded in part by oligarchs; the ability to earn income from their labor alone may not be sufficient. My Lord. Maybe a system that requires bribery for popular buy-in requires a rethink? The alternative to such bribery would be to boost the bargaining power of workers, via unionization, a federal jobs program, and higher minimum wages, but neoliberals would never go for that!
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You’ve been given free access to this story from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. Beware the top-heavy economy economist.com/business/2026/…
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Ok props to @TheEconomist, channeling its inner Lina Khan, for recognizing that a social cost of our increasingly concentrated, “top-heavy” economy is the “consumers, employees, and small suppliers could be squeezed and government unduly swayed by the many lobbyists employed by corporate colossi.” Ignore their concern about the rise of populists, as that is the only way to reverse our slide towards oligarchy. Strong A-. Link to follow.
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This tactic is similar to smearing someone who opposes Israel policies as being antisemitic—associate a negative attribute with something that is otherwise popular and morally sound.
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Fun to watch the mainstream (aka corporatist) press try to smear Dem leaders for supporting a progressive candidate who questioned the basic tenets of neoliberlism “in the first place”
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Monica Wolf-Smith
Monica Wolf-Smith@WestEschaton·
@halsinger @ZephyrTeachout The price of eggs came down more due to the easing of the avian flu crisis and subsequent over-supply of product. I don’t think the DOJ had that much to do with the world wide price of eggs.
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Given the success of DOJ’s investigation at arresting price hikes for eggs, it’s curious why the antitrust agencies aren’t launching more investigations into other food categories. I’m looking at you, beef industry! (It’s also curious why the business press tends to focus its attention on retailers, when most of the anticompetitive activity is happening upstream at the supplier level.)
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David Sirota
David Sirota@davidsirota·
The Clintonites have spent a quarter century trying to purge the Dem Party of anyone to the left of a Wall Street CEO. No guilt-by-association tactic is too grotesque for them. They maximize every unrelated scandal as an opportunity to try to expand their purge (see the below effort to use the Platner debacle to try to smear El-Sayed) — and they are typically assisted by a worshipful pundit class and backed by a lot of money. Their ruthlessness is formidable & their sociopathy makes me unsure of whether they can be stopped. Having scars of my own from 30 years in work against their corporatism, hear me when I say that you underestimate them at your peril.
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Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald·
I'm as shocked ayone, but the most journalistically solid and adversarial interview about the Platner allegations was conducted by Mika Brzezinski; her questions to the POLITICO reporter showed how thin their evidence was. Now some of the best analysis on Maine is here, too:
Ashleyy@dontsippy

Joe and Brzezinski said they were “scratching their heads” as they received calls about “Platner needing to be off the ballot.” They received calls consistently for two weeks from Democrats in Maine about getting Platner off the ballot. The establishment and their media hit squad even had interviews ready to go. I’m not calling anyone a liar, but if you don’t question the timing of the allegation, then you are gullible.

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David Dayen
David Dayen@ddayen·
In two years, surveillance pricing went from a concept I gave a name to in a @TheProspect story to something where legislators have introduced dozens of bills banning it, several states have passed bans, and it's now one of the highest-ranking issues for swing voters.
Emma Janssen@EmmaRJanssen

ICYMI: New report on swing voters from @DataProgress spells good news for economic populists. Policies that will make swing voters support Dems: - Taxing the rich - Medicare for All - AI regulation More in my story (linked in replies).

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@calijawn The business press tends to ask industry reps and PR folks why prices are rising. No surprise based on those sources that reporters get turned onto theories blaming some factor beyond the company’s control (e.g., the bird flu).
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Michael Barry
Michael Barry@calijawn·
@halsinger I'm guessing that the beef lobby's financial contributions far exceed those of the egg lobby... a coincidence, I'm sure
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