I knew about some of these monopolies but didn't realize how many there are that impact every facet of our lives. The greed, manipulation, and ruin of people's livelihoods is disgusting! For years I have tried to buy services and goods from local businesses but it is getter harder. But this makes me ...more

The Illusion of Choice in America

Americans think they live in a land of unbelievable choice, the rich fruit of capitalism. The truth is they are totally manipulated and trapped. For example, with all the choices of beer the consumer has, the truth is they are all owned by just two companies now. The ...more

Corporate monopolies are the current structure of power and governance.

The United States is not a democracy. It's not a democratic republic. It's not a legislative body that is dictated by elected officials. The current power structure of the United States is a corporate plutocracy that has been pla ...more

An eye-opening book for sure, the author looked at monopolies and corporate power from the angle of ordinary people, revealing the damages to people’s livelihood that we don’t see. To be honest, I feel like some of the things in the book are a little bit inaccurate or one-sided. But a good book trig ...more

An excellent tour of several sectors of the economy where consumers are essentially at the mercy of big business. In some cases it's a single company, a true monopoly, while in others it's a handful of companies that operate more like a cartel to fix prices than as true competitors. David Dayen has ...more

Many of the recent works on the problem of Monopolization tackle the subject from the historical and at a high level whereas Dayan in Monopolized looks at the issue at this from a personal and micro level bringing a host of regular people and small businesses that have suffered from the negative sid ...more

This book is good book. Or maybe I should write its a bad book about bad things...Monopolies. A better title would have been "Everything you wanted to know about Monopolies but were afraid to ask". The good -the bad- and the downright ugly.It is a highly readable book that is dizzying in breadth and ...more

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2020 offers a range of books about this problem of our monopolized economy and I've enjoyed the ones I've read for different reasons. David Dayen offers just an overwhelming look at how much monopoly is a problem and the real world impact from so much concentration in the economy. How it makes us le ...more

If you think about a monopoly you might think about one party controlling one facet of business. But what if two or three parties control that particular facet? Is there really a market? Why would you compete if there's little competition? Why lower prices or provide better service when the scarce c ...more

A really infuriating read. The trump supporter who was pissed at her high rent is still somehow able to make excuses for private equity but will blame immigrants. Not sure how you convince some ppl that they have nothing in common with these CEOs who runs these corporations ...more

The late Robert Bork is probably best known for being a failed Supreme Court nominee —a rejection so famous that the term "borked" is now synonymous for blocked nominations. But Bork's most lasting legacy is monopolies. In his 1978 book The Anti-Trust Paradox, Bork argued that monopolies did not dam ...more

Guy Rolnik, an academic and journalist said, "If you control the banks, or the insurance companies, and you also control the media, you have a lock on democracy". Another book completed on money, finance, economy, monopolies. Bernie Sanders has been right all along. Economic inequality is the destro ...more