Niko Lusiani

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"This moment is not just about reining in one company, but it’s also about reclaiming a digital economy that serves us all." @NikoLusiani & @Ketan_Ahuja_ explore the DOJ’s proposed remedies for @Google ⤵️ msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

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Pro-public tech 📲 innovation requires creating a digital ecosystem that actually serves and protects public interests. The DOJ’s proposed remedies for @Google are a good first step, but there is much more to be done. @NikoLusiani & @Ketan_Ahuja_ msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

Lina Khan’s leadership brought clarity and consistency to antitrust enforcement. @NikoLusiani explores why big business may regret losing her rule-of-law approach when Trump returns to power. Read his insights on fair competition in @monthly: washingtonmonthly.com/2024/11/26/why…

"Multinationals often opposed the FTC chair’s vigorous antitrust enforcement and that of the entire Biden administration, but Trump’s industrial policy by temper tantrum gives corporations what they really hate—instability." - @NikoLusiani washingtonmonthly.com/2024/11/26/why…

In a new op-ed for @monthly, Director of Corporate Power @NikoLusiani argues that the rigorous antitrust enforcement of FTC Chair @linakhanFTC is good for business—it offers stability and "rewards competition rather than submission." Read more ⤵️ washingtonmonthly.com/2024/11/26/why…

Every incumbent party around the world when the post-pandemic inflation began has lost, regardless of ideology and regardless of where inflation was at the moment of the election.

It’s going to get pretty warm in the next few decades

Fossil fuels don't just heat up the planet. The price 💰 of fossil fuel energy is volatile and contributes to inflation. Renewable energy is cheap, and shifting away from fossil fuels will permanently reduce inflationary pressures. @TheProspect prospect.org/environment/20…

@its_mccarthy Congrats!!!

I officially have tenure in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I'm slugged for life.

Get paid to tax the rich and to work with an amazing team. itep.org/state-team-sen…

I think it's also very underestimated how much Denmark has leveraged its historic relationship w/ NovoNordisk and its blockholder NovoNordisk Foundation into a form of industrial policy, most recently helping to fund the Gefion supercomputer.

The utility industry is standing in the way of the energy transition. Oskar Dye-Furstenberg explores why the US urgently needs to decarbonize it’s energy system, citing recent research from @NikoLusiani ⬇️ rooseveltinstitute.org/2024/10/03/ele…

In @ProSyn, I draw on the experience of independent pharmacies in Puerto Rico to highlight a critical component of antitrust reform: allowing small players to build leverage against powerful corporations through collective action project-syndicate.org/commentary/kam…

@Leahgreenb Hey Leah. A billionaire income tax would help, but I'm beginning to wonder if going directly at their companies will be more effective. Time to dust off the Boycott the Billionaires playbook?

The people who are most comfortable, most powerful, most protected are the ones who fall in line preemptively. We need to win the election and then we need to tax the shit out of these people. This level of concentrated wealth is dangerous for our democracy.

@lenorepalladino @owenslindsay1 Greg Ip - newbie protege of Prof. Palladino in the Lazonick school of innovative enterprise.

Segment could have easily been from a 2014 webinar featuring Elizabeth Warren and @lenorepalladino but is on CNBC featuring a WSJ reporter. It’s amazing how mainstream and accepted these concerns about shareholder capitalism have become—now we just to fix it.

@JesseJenkins Interesting, I wonder what Warren Buffet/Berkshire think about that, seeing as they own BNSF Railway. Might these potential losses affect BH Energy's commitments to phase out coal? Carbon supply chain issues all interconnected.

Folks, there's gonna be a lot of spare freight rail capacity in America soon...

A small set of investment managers, like @BlackRock and @Vanguard_Group, control so many assets in so many companies, giving them the power to impose their preferences on businesses across the economy.