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Monopolized End Notes, p.251-295

Here are the end notes for pages 251-295 of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power by David Dayen.

10. Monopolies Are Why A Woman Found Her Own Home Listed for Rent on Zillow

251 roughly 9.3 million American families Jann Swanson, “Buyers Returning to Housing Market Ready, Willing, and Able?,” Mortgage News Daily, April 20, 2015, www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/04202015_boomerang_buyers.asp.

251 focusing on areas John Gittelsohn, “Real Estate Investors Plan to Purchase More Homes in U.S.,” Bloomberg, September 19, 2012.

251 a $40 billion flurry Private Equity Stakeholder Project et al., “The Con- tinuing Threat of Private Equity Investment in Single Family Rentals,” April 2019, pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Private-Equity-Single-Family-Rental-4-2019.pdf.

251 spent $1 billion David Dayen, “News Leaks of $1 Billion Blackstone Invest- ment in Foreclosed Properties . . . Just in Tampa Bay,” Shadowproof, September 24, 2012, shadowproof.com/2012/09/24/news-leaks-of-1-billion-blackstone-investment-in-foreclosed-properties-just-in-tampa-bay.

251 27 percent of all home purchases David Dayen, “Your New Landlord Works on Wall Street,” New Republic, February 11, 2013.

251 swelled to 42 percent Aaron Glantz, “Report: Investors Buy Nearly Half of Oakland’s Foreclosed Homes,” The Bay Citizen, June 28, 2012.

251 90 percent of homes sold Chris Campbell et al., “A Look at Private Equity Investors and the Atlanta Foreclosure Residential Market,” Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, May 1, 2013, atlanta.uli.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2012/12/ANDP-Atlanta-Neighborhood-Development-Partnership-Report.pdf.

251 many of the renters Right to the City Alliance, “Renting from Wall Street: Blackstone’s Invitation Homes in Los Angeles and Riverside,” July 2014, homesforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/LA-Riverside-Blackstone-Report-071514.pdf.

252 Atlantans found black mold Adam Murphy, “Tornado Damaged Home Causes Health Issues,” CBS 46 Atlanta, October 30, 2018.

252 home in California was deemed unsafe Jim Holt, “Family Displaced for a Week After Home Yellow Tagged as Unsafe,” Santa Clarita Valley Signal, September 7, 2018.

252 fairly common problems Right to the City Alliance, “Renting from Wall Street.”

252 leaving the worst problems Michelle Conlin, “Special Report: Spiders, Sewage and Fees: The Other Side of Renting from Wall Street,” Reuters, July 27, 2018.

252 empire of homes is rotting Brian Ross, Cindy Galli, Cho Park, and Pete Madden, “Billion-Dollar Landlords: Rental Home Giant Once Led by Trump Ally Is Under Fire from Some Tenants, Critics,” ABC News, November 16, 2017.

252 a 2019 Atlantic article Alana Semuels, “When Wall Street Is Your Landlord,” The Atlantic, February 13, 2019.

252 I went to South Los Angeles David Dayen, “Slumlord Millionaires,” New Republic, July 24, 2014.

253 institutional investors evicted tenants Elora Raymond et al., “Corporate Landlords, Institutional Investors,and Displacement: Eviction Rates in Single-Family Rentals,” Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, December 2016, www.frbatlanta.org/-/media/documents/community-development/publications/discussion-papers/2016/04-corporate-landlords-institutional-investors-and-displacement-2016-12-21.pdf.

253 “Happy 30 Day Eviction Notice” cake Property Management Memes, Facebook, January 24, 2019, www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_id=2045942045490387 &id=792535127497758.

253 touting automated fees and charges Semuels, “When Wall Street Is Your Landlord.”

253 a 2018 report Maya Abood, “Wall Street Landlords Turn American Dream into a Nightmare,” ACCE Institute, Americans for Financial Reform, and Public Advocates, 2018, d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/acceinstitute/pages/100/attachments/original/1516388955/WallstreetLandlordsFinalReport.pdf?1516388955.

253 $17.5 billion in outstanding bonds David Dayen, “Private Equity: Looting ‘R’ Us,” American Prospect, March 20, 2018.

253 Trump ally Tom Barrack Aaron Glantz, “Profiting Off Pain: Trump Confidant Cashed In on Housing Crisis,” Reveal News, June 8, 2017, www.revealnews.org/article/profiting-off-pain-trump-confidant-cashed-in-on-housing-crisis.

254 Blackstone finally cashed out Ryan Dezember, “Blackstone Moves out of Rental-Home Wager with a Big Gain,” Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2019.

254 The experience in America Fred Clasen-Kelly, Anna Douglas, and Julianna Rennie, “Company Bought Hundreds of Houses. Now, Poor Are Getting ‘Priced Out,’ Critics Say,” Charlotte Observer, December 5, 2018.

254 blamed investor-owned rentals Lauren Lambie-Hanson, Wenli Li, and Michael Slonkosky, “Leaving Households Behind: Institutional Investors and the U.S. Housing Recovery,” Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, January 2019, www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/publications/working-papers/2019/wp19-01.pdf.

254 formally accused Blackstone United Nations Human Rights O ce of the High Commissioner, “States and Real Estate Private Equity Firms Questioned for Compliance with Human Rights,” March 26, 2019, www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24404&LangID=E.

255 proposed class-action lawsuit Jose Rivera v. Invitation Homes, United States District Court, Northern District of California, May 25, 2018, leasinglifestyle.org/class-action-rivera-vs-invitation-homes-inc.

255 also tweets Tweet from Dana Chisholm (@TenantsINVH), December 28, 2018, twitter.com/TenantsINVH/status/1078723561626296321.

255 chaired President Trump’s economic advisory council Lucinda Shen, “Stephen Schwarzman: This Is the Real Reason CEOs Left Trump’s Councils,” Fortune, September 12, 2017.

255 advises the president Michael Kranish, “Trump’s China Whisperer: How Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman Has Sought to Keep the President Close to Beijing,” Washington Post, March 12, 2018.

255 there was a loophole Dayen, “Private Equity: Looting ‘R’ Us.”

255 a $20 billion real estate fund Peter Grant, “Blackstone Aims to Throw Weight Around with a Record Real Estate Fund,” Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2019.

255 raised $8 billion Alana Schetzer, “Private Equity Funds Build Firepower for Property Slump,” Financial Times, April 7, 2019.

255 started to build Felipe Ossa, “Why ‘Build to Rent’ Is Having Its Moment,” American Banker, February 14, 2018.

255 at least one million apartment units Americans for Financial Reform, New York Communities for Change, and Private Equity Stakeholder Project, “Wall Street Private Equity Landlords Snapping Up Apartment Buildings,” April 2019, pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Private-Equity-Apartments-PESP-AFR-NYCC-April-2019.pdf.

255 staking funds for other landlords Diana Olick, “This Private Equity Giant Wants to Give Landlords Millions—Here’s How,” CNBC, June 30, 2016.

256 one out of every six dollars Rana Foroohar, “US Private Equity Moves into Trailer Parks,” Financial Times, May 20, 2019.

256 $15 billion in no-strings loans The Capitol Forum, “Fannie Mae: Mobile- Home Loan Program Leaves Evictions, Billionaire Profits in Wake,” May 16, 2019.

256 resulted in a wave Zachary Owen Smith, “Private Equity Firms Rapidly Investing in Mobile Home Parks,” Associated Press, April 20, 2019; Private Equity Stakeholder Project, MH Action, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, “Private Equity Giants Converge on Manufactured Homes: How Private Equity Is Manufacturing Homelessness & Communities Are Fighting Back,” February 2019, pestakeholder.org/wo-content/uploads/2019/02/Private-Equity-Glants-Converge-on-Manufactured-Homes-PESP-MHAction-AFR-021419.pdf.

256 controlling half the market Data from the Open Markets Institute, concentrationcrisis.openmarketsinstitute.org/industry/mobile-home-manufacturing.

Interlude

257 the one I came across Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Settles Claims with Sterling Jewelers, Inc.,” January 16, 2019, www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-settles-claims-against-sterling-jewelers-inc.

257 mired in a legal odyssey Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret,” New York Times, April 23, 2019.

258 Signet’s 2019 annual report Signet Jewelers, 2019 annual report, s2.q4cdn.com/912924347/files/doc_ nancials/2019/SIG_2019_AR_10K.pdf.

258 National Retail Federation’s 2017 figures Stores (National Retail Foundation magazine), “The Top 100 Retailers,” 2018, stores.org/stores-top-retailers-2018. Data from Kantar Consulting, 2017.

258 Signet bought in 2017 Scott Suttell, “Signet Jewelers Buys Online Retailer for $328 Million,” Crain’s Cleveland Business, August 24, 2017.

258 according to Labor Department statistics Signet Jewelers, 2019 annual report.

258 Signet’s share at 15.3 percent Tanvi Kumar, “Jewelry Stores in the US,” IBISWorld Industry Report 44831, December 2018.

258 now part of a conglomerate Matthew Dalton, “Inside LVMH, Tiffany to Fall Under CEO Arnault’s Exacting Eye,” Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2019.

258 Harriet Samuel opened her shop H. Samuel, “About Us,” www.hsamuel.co.uk/about_us.

258 Kay began as a department store Kay Jewelers, “The History of Kay Jewelers,” www.kay.com/kay-about-us.

258 Zales came out of Wichita Falls Zale Corporation, “The Zale Corporation Story,” www.zalecorp.com/History.aspx.

258 Henry Shaw founded LeRoy’s Jewelers Israeli Diamond, “ e Jewelers from Akron: The Story of Sterling Jewelers,” en.israelidiamond.co.il/wikidiamond/diamond-industry-history/jewelers-akron-sterling-jewelers.

11. Monopolies Are Why a Family Has Seen Only the Top of Their Loved One’s Head for the Past Two Years

261 first state penitentiary in America Law Library—American Law and Legal Information, “Walnut Street Prison,” law.jrank.org/pages/11192/Walnut-Street-Prison.html; Adam Jay Hirsch, The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992).

261 small lockup in Auburn, New York Law Library, “Walnut Street Prison”; Hirsch, The Rise of the Penitentiary.

261 something called convict leasing PBS, “Convict Leasing,” Slavery by Another Name, 2012, www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/convict-leasing.

261 three-fourths of Alabama’s state revenue Digital History, University of Houston, “Convict Leasing System,” 2019, www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3179.

261 periodic rebellions James B. Jones Jr., “Convict Lease Wars,” Tennessee Historical Society, October 8, 2017, tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/convict-lease-wars.

261 inmates still work Genevieve Carlton, “50 Large American Companies That Use Prison Labor,” Ranker, August 2018, www.ranker.com/list/companies-in-the-united-states-that-use-prison-labor/genevieve-carlton; Jaime Lowe, “The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California’s Wildfires,” New York Times, August 31, 2017.

261 as little as 2¢ Whitney Benns, “American Slavery, Reinvented,” The Atlantic, September 21, 2015.

262 Unicor, which solicits clients Unicor, “The Best Kept Secret in Contact Centers,” www.unicor.gov/publications/services/CATMS361.pdf; Unicor, “The Onshore Advantage,” www.unicor.gov/publications/services/CATS3103_C.pdf.

262 jumped five-fold within forty years The Sentencing Project, “Criminal Justice Facts,” www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts. Data from the Bureau of Justice Studies.

262 in a 1988 report David F. Linowes et al., “Privatization: Toward More Effective Government,” Report of the President’s Commission on Privatization, March 1988, pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNABB472.pdf.

262 organs like the Heritage Foundation Dana Joel, “A Guide to Prison Privatization,” Heritage Foundation, May 24, 1988, www.heritage.org/political-process/report/guide-prison-privatization.

262 a billion-dollar business Nzong Xiong, “Private Prisons: A Question of Savings,” New York Times, July 13, 1997.

262 Friedmann first learned about David Dayen, “The True Cost,” Talking Points Memo, June 2016.

263 well under those for public corrections officers In the Public Interest, “Cutting Corners in America’s Criminal Justice System,” April 2016, www.inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/ITPI_CuttingCorners_Corrections_April2016.pdf.

263 Shane Bauer received Shane Bauer, “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation,” Mother Jones, July–August 2016.

263 Reduced training and insufficient equipment Beryl Lipton, “OSHA Com- plaints Show Awful Conditions Inside Private Prisons . . . for the Employees,” Muckrock, January 15, 2015, www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jan/15/osha-complaints-show-awful-conditions-insides-priv.

263 a state audit in Idaho In the Public Interest, “Cutting Corners.”

263 told to “just fake it” Karen Lehr, “Employees Sue Corrections Corporation of America for Poor Work Conditions,” ABC 6 KITI-TV, January 27, 2014.

263 reports detail Spencer Woodman, “Mold-Infested Prisons Sicken Guards and Prisoners,” The Intercept, May 28, 2016; U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Citation and Notification of Penalty, June 11, 2012, www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/The_GEO_Group_Inc_315306357_06_11_2012.pdf; Grassroots Leadership, “A ‘Groundbreaking’ Example of Prison Privatization: Squalor and Violence at Lake Erie Correctional Institution,” 2013, grassrootsleadership.org/cca-dirty-30#2.

263 A 2014 ACLU report American Civil Liberties Union, “Warehoused and For- gotten: Immigrants Trapped in Our Shadow Private Prison System,” June 2014, www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/060614-ACLU-CAR-ReportOnline.pdf.

263 a Justice Department report Katie Benner and Shaila Dewan, “Alabama’s Gruesome Prisons: Report Finds Rape and Murder at All Hours,” New York Times, April 3, 2019.

263 agreed to end their use Charlie Savage, “U.S. to Phase Out Use of Private Prisons for Federal Inmates,” New York Times, August 18, 2016.

263 GEO subsidiary gave $225,000 Campaign Legal Center, “Trump Super PAC Received Illegal Donations from Private Prison Company,” December 20, 2016, campaignlegal.org/press-releases/trump-super-pac-received-illegal-donations-private-prison-company.

264 CoreCivic pushed $250,000 Fredreka Schouten, “Private Prisons Back Trump and Could See Big Payoffs with New Policies,” USA Today, February 23, 2017.

264 two former Jeff Sessions Senate aides Taylor Gee, Kaitlyn Burton, and Mary Lee, “Private Prison Company GEO Hires Three Firms,” Politico, October 12, 2016.

264 Sessions revoked the Obama-era guidance Jefferson B. Sessions, “Memorandum for the Acting Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons,” Office of the Attorney General, February21, 2017, www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015a-6d3f-d49b-a77a -7fbf234a0001.

264 cover only around 8.5 percent The Sentencing Project, “Private Prisons in the United States,” August 7, 2018, www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-united-states.

264 median bail in America Bernadette Rabuy and Daniel Kopf, “Detaining the Poor: How Money Bail Perpetuates an Endless Cycle of Poverty and Jail Time,” Prison Policy Initiative, May 10, 2016, www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/incomejails.html.

264 nine insurance companies underwrite Color of Change and the ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice, “Selling Off Our Freedom: How Insurance Corporations Have Taken Over Our Bail System,” May 2017, thecrimereport.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ACLU-Bail-Report.pdf.

264 takes convicts into lockups Eli Hager and Alysia Santo, “Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport,” Marshall Project, July6, 2016, www.themarshallproject.org/2016/07/06/inside-the-deadly-world-of-private-prisoner-transport.

265 a 2019 Worth Rises report Worth Rises, “The Prison Industrial Complex: Mapping Private Sector Players,” April 2019, worthrises.org/picreport2019.

265 the largest food and commissary giant Tim Requarth, “How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons into Big Profits,” The Nation, April 30, 2019, https://www.thenation.com/article/prison-privatization-private-equity-hig.

265 more than one million meals Aramark, “Serving Up the Right Meals for a Safer Environment,” www.aramark.com/industries/business-government/correctional-facilities/food-services.

265 stocked kitchens with spoiled food Requarth, “How Private Equity Is Turning.”

265 workers covered a cake Paul Egan, “E-mails: Aramark Fed Inmates Cake Chewed by Rodents,” Detroit Free Press, March 17, 2015.

265 meat that had been thrown in the trash Matthew Kovac, “Aramark’s Recipe for Disaster,” Progress Michigan, March 30, 2015, www.progressmichigan.org/2015/03/aramarks-recipe-for-disaster.

265 2,945 food quality and sanitation violations Progress Michigan, “A Failed Privatization Experiment: Aramark and the Michigan Department of Corrections,” August18, 2015, www.scribd.com/document/275004778/A-Failed-Privatization-Experiment-Aramark-and-the-Michigan-Department-of-Corrections.

265 ban seventy-four employees Progress Michigan, “A Failed Privatization Experiment.”

265 acting as contraband couriers Christopher Zoukis, “Aramark’s Correctional Food Services: Meals, Maggots and Misconduct,” Prison Legal News, December 2, 2015.

266 Inmates protested chow hall conditions Roland Zullo, “Food Service Privatization in Michigan’s Prisons: Observations of Corrections Officers,” University of Michigan, March 2016, irlee.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/PrivatizationOfPrisonFood.pdf.

266 leading Michigan to end its dalliance Paul Egan and Kathleen Gray, “Gov. Rick Snyder: State to End Problem-Plagued Privatization Experiment with Prison Food,” Detroit Free Press, February 7, 2018.

266 Aramark got New York State Tina Luongo and Caroline Hsu, “Care Packages at Inmates Can Afford,” New York Daily News, January 11, 2018.

266 impersonal, standardized care packages Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, “ e Big Business of Prisoner Care Packages,” Marshall Project, December 21, 2017, www.themarshallproject.org/2017/12/21/the-big-business-of-prisoner-care-packages.

266 can cost over $7 Luongo and Hsu, “Care Packages That Inmates Can Afford.”

266 JPay leads the market Dayen, “The True Cost.”

266 perusing JPay’s fee schedule JPay, “Availability and Pricing,” www.jpay.com/pavail.aspx.

266 can incur $5.95 in fees JPay, “Florida State Prison System,” www.jpay.com/Agency-Details/Florida-State-Prison-System.aspx.

266 JPay release card Amadou Diallo, “‘Release Cards’ Turn Inmates and Their Families into Profit Stream,” Al Jazeera America, April 20, 2015.

266 cough up co-pays Victoria Law, “Behind Bars, Co-Pays Are a Barrier to Basic Health Care,” Truthout, April 3, 2019, truthout.org/articles/behind-bars-co-pays-are-a-barrier-to-basic-health-care.

266 220 facilities in seventeen states Corizon Health, “About Corizon Health,” www.corizonhealth.com/About-Corizon/Locations.

266 that number has shrunk Michael Winerip and Michael Schwirtz, “New York City to End Contract with Rikers Health Care Provider,” New York Times, June 10, 2015; John Kennedy, “Controversial Prison Health Provider Walks Away from Florida Contract,” Palm Beach Post, December 1, 2015; Abigail Hauslohner, “D.C. Council Rejects Corizon Health Contract A er Lobbying Battle,” Washington Post, April 14, 2015; Beth Schwartzapfel, “How Bad Is Prison Health Care? Depends on Who’s Watching,” Marshall Project, February 26, 2018, www.themarshallproject.org/2018/02/25/how-bad-is-prison-health-care-depends-on-who-s-watching.

267 constitute cruel and unusual punishment Marc F. Stern, report to United States District Court, District of Idaho, February 2, 2012, www.clearinghouse.net/chDocs/public/PC-ID-0004-0013.pdf.

267 were “swarmed by flies” Victor Parsons et al. v. Arizona Department of Corrections, United States District Court, District of Arizona, April 11, 2016, www.themarshallproject.org/documents/3549306-Parsons-4-11-16-PLAINTIFFS -MOTION-TO-ENFORCE-THE.html#annotation/a348196.

267 led to his going blind Jan Skutch, “Former Chatham County Jail Inmate Sues Sheriff, Corizon over Blindness,” Savannah Morning News, May 20, 2016.

267 Corizon’s unconscionable health care Southern Poverty Law Center, “Cruel Confinement: Abuse, Discrimination and Death Within Alabama’s Prisons,” June 5, 2014, www.splcenter.org/20140604/cruel-confinement-abuse-discrimination-and-death-within-alabamas-prisons.

267 New Mexico dropped Corizon Geert de Lombaerde, “Corizon Dropped by New Mexico,” Nashville Post, May 25, 2016, www.nashvillepost.com/business/prison-management/article/20781043/corizon-dropped-by-new-mexico.

267 another concoction of HIG Capital Marsha McLeod, “The Private Option,” The Atlantic, September 12, 2019.

267 at least 1,395 lawsuits since 2003 Edward Lyon, “Correct Care Solutions Redux: Poor Medical Care Leads to More Deaths, Lawsuits,” Prison Legal News, December 7, 2018.

267 forcing one woman in Florida Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, “Dangerous Jail Births, Miscarriages, and Stillborn Babies Blamed on the Same Billion Dollar Company,” CNN, May 7, 2019.

267 mostly the payers are families Ella Baker Center for Human Rights et al., “Who Pays? The True Cost of Incareration of Families,” September 2015, whopaysreport.org/who-pays-full-report.

267 a 2015 Prison Policy Initiative report Bernadetter Rabuy and Daniel Kopf, “Prisons of Poverty: Uncovering the Pre-incarceration Incomes of the Imprisoned,” Prison Policy Initiative, July 9, 2015, www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/income.html.

267 branched out into “community corrections” Christopher Zoukis, “From Cages to the Community: Prison Profiteers and the Treatment Industrial Complex,” Prison Legal News, March 6, 2018.

267 bought BI Incorporated Business Wire, “The GEO Group Closes $415 Million Acquisition of B.I. Incorporated,” February 11, 2011, www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110211005372/en/GEO-Group-Closes-415-Million-Acquisition-B.I.

267 ex-cons pay for such monitoring Ava Kofman, “Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants into Debt,” ProPublica, July 3, 2019.

268 real growth area for monopolists Adam Snitzer, “The Nation’s Largest Private Prisons Operator Is Based in Florida. And Profits Are Up,” Miami Herald, April 22, 2019.

268 number rises to 72 percent Worth Rises, “Immigration Detention: An American Business,” June 2018, worthrises.org/immigration.

268 immigrant-only prison system Seth Freed Wessler, “Separate, Unequal, and Deadly,” Type Investigations, January 27, 2016, www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2016/01/27/separate-unequal-deadly.

268 compared to Japanese internment camps Satsuki Ina, “I Know an American ‘Internment’ Camp When I See One,” American Civil Liberties Union, May 27, 2015, www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/i-know-american-internment-camp-when-i-see.

268 contract for immigrant electronic monitoring Zachary Kligler, “Trump’s Turn to Electronic Monitoring Isn’t a Humane Solution,” In These Times, July 24, 2018.

268 firms like Southwest Key Kim Barker, “Southwest Key, Known for Migrant Shelters, Cashes In on Charter Schools,” New York Times, March 15, 2019.

268 under the “ICE Air” brand John Burnett, “ICE Air: The Airline You Never Want to Fly,” NPR News, September 26, 2018.

268 All those border camps David Dayen, “Below the Surface of ICE: The Corporations Profiting from Immigrant Detention,” In These Times, September 17, 2018.

270 will set you back $3.75 Prison Phone Justice, “Federal Bureau of Prisons Phone Rates and Kickbacks,” www.prisonphonejustice.org/state/BOP.

270 Kentucky, where the price is $5.70 Prison Phone Justice, “Kentucky State Prison Phone Rates and Kickbacks,” www.prisonphonejustice.org/state/KY.

270 families worked for two decades Ulandis Forte, “My Grandmother’s 20-Year Fight for Prison Phone Justice,” Truthout, June 21, 2019, truthout.org/articles/my-grandmothers-20-year-fight-for-prison-phone-justice.

270 rolled back by an appeals court Victoria Law, “$15 for 15 Minutes: How Courts Are Letting Prison Phone Companies Gouge Incarcerated People,” The Intercept, June 16, 2017.

270 prices can range as high Peter Wagner and Alexi Jones, “State of Phone Justice: Local Jails, State Prisons and Private Phone Providers,” Prison Policy Initiative, February 2019, www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/state_of_phone_justice.html.

270 Congress complained in 2018 Katy Sword, “Murray, Cantwell Urge ICE to End Phone Call Practice,” The Columbian, July 24, 2018.

270 Amsani Yusli submitted Lorelei Laird, “Appeals Court Stymies Bid to Regulate High Cost of Prison Phone Calls,” ABA Journal, May 1, 2018.

270 wrote longtime prison phone activist Forte, “My Grandmother’s 20-Year Fight.”

271 using digitized phone calls George Joseph and Debbie Nathan, “Prisons Across the U.S. Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints,” The Intercept, January 30, 2019.

271 dozens of smaller mergers Private Equity Stakeholder Project, “Platinum Equity’s Not So Securus Investment,” May 2019, pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Platinum-Equitys-Not-So-Securus-Investment-PESP-052119.pdf.

271 owns the Detroit Pistons Laurence Darmiento, “Troubled Companies Made Him Billions. A Prison Phone Investment Made Him Enemies,” Los Angeles Times, September 5, 2019.

271 Securus serves over 1.2 million inmates Private Equity Stakeholder Project, “Private Equity-Owned Firms Dominate Prison and Detention Services,” December 2018, pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PE-Incarceration-Detention-PESP-122018.pdf.

271 GTL grew through acquisitions Private Equity Stakeholder Project, “Platinum Equity’s Not So Securus Investment.”

271 Securus often wields patents Business Wire, “Securus Technologies Granted Additional Eight (8) Patents for Law Enforcement and Corrections,” October 18, 2017.

271 expensive licensing agreements PR Newswire, “Securus’ Bilateral Patent License Agreements Allow Facilities to Share Technology Developed and Bring More Products to Corrections/Law Enforcement Quicker,” September 29, 2016.

271 Securus will happily sue Jessica M. Karmasek, “Inmate Technology Company Continues to Challenge Competitor’s Patent Portfolio, Files 10 New Petitions with PTAB,” Legal Newsline, May 19, 2015, legalnewsline.com/stories/510550763-inmate-technology-company-continues-to-challenge-competitor-rsquo-s-patent-portfolio-files-10-new-petitions-with-ptab.

271 Securus attempted to buy Bianca Tylek and Connor McCleskey, “This Call May Be Monopolized and Recorded,” Marshall Project, July 11, 2018, www.themarshallproject.org/2018/07/11/this-call-may-be-monopolized-and-recorded.

271 blocking that merger David Shepardson, “Inmate Calling Services Companies Drop Merger Bid After U.S. Regulatory Opposition,” Reuters, April 2, 2019.

271 GTL acquired it John Dannenberg, “Nationwide PLN Survey Examines Prison Phone Contracts, Kickbacks,” Prison Legal News, April 15, 2011.

271 GTL acquired VAC Global Tel*Link, “VAC,” www.gtl.net/vac.

272 acquired seventeen different companies Eric Markowitz, “Amid Death Threats, An Embattled Prison Phone Company CEO Speaks Out,” International Business Times, January 26, 2016.

272 police departments have employed Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, “Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too,” New York Times, May 10, 2018.

272 Securus bought it PR Newswire, “Securus Technologies, Inc. to Acquire JPay Inc.,” April 24, 2015.

272 who need a stamp Victoria Law, “Captive Audience: How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an Email,” Wired, August 3, 2018.

272 an album can cost $46 Patrick Lohmann, “Company Giving Tablets to NY Prisoners Expects to Get $9M from Inmates over 5 Years,” Syracuse Post-Standard, February 15, 2018.

272 increase prices on any of these services Stephen Raher, “The Wireless Prison: How Colorado’s Tablet Computer Program Misses Opportunities and Monetizes the Poor,” Prison Policy Initiative, July 6, 2017, www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/07/06/tablets.

272 tablets are sometimes “free” Lohmann, “Company Giving Tablets.”

273 banned greeting cards Law, “Captive Audience.”

273 Pennsylvania banned the delivery Jodi Lincoln, “Incarcerated Pennsylvanians Now Have to Pay $150 to Read. We Should All Be Outraged,” Washington Post, October 11, 2018.

273 using the security excuse “Governor Wolf Meets with Corrections O cers to Discuss Safety Concerns, Announce New Protocols,” Pennsylvania Pressroom, September 5, 2018, www.media.pa.gov/pages/corrections_details.aspx?newsid=355.

273 GTL’s 8,500 ebook titles “GTL E-Book Availability List,” www.cor.pa.gov/Inmates/Documents/master-ebook-list.pdf.

273 After public outcry Amistad Law Project, “Cancel the New Punitive PADOC Policies, Respect the Rights of Prisoners and Their Families,” Change.org, October 2018, www.change.org/p/tom-wolf-cancel-the-new-punitive-padoc-policies-respect-the-rights-of-prisoners-and-their-families.

273 rolled the policy back Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, “Department of Corrections Announces Book, Publications Policy,” November 1, 2018, www.cor.pa.gov/About%20Us/Newsroom/Documents/2018%20Press%20Releases/Updated%20 Book%20Policy%20PR.pdf.

273 pushing out bans on used books Nila Bala, “There’s a War on Books in Prisons. It Needs to End,” Washington Post, February 8, 2018; IDoc Watch, “Call-In to End Used Book Bans in Indiana Prisons!,” May 15, 2019, https://www.idocwatch.org/blog-1/2019/5/15/call-in-to-end-used-book-bans-in-indiana-prisons.

273 confiscated the old players Ben Conarck, “Florida Inmates Spent $11.3 Million on MP3s. Now Prisons Are Taking the Players,” Florida Times-Union, August 8, 2018.

273 Prisoners filed suit Demler et al. v. Inch, United States District Court, Northern District of Florida, February 19, 2019, www.documentcloud.org/documents/5743758-Demler-v-Inch-Complaint-Filed-07202845xB3B17.html.

274 “feelings of being welcome” Joan Petersilla, When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry, Studies in Crime and Public Policy (London: Oxford University Press, 2009).

274 2011 Minnesota Department of Corrections study Minnesota Department of Corrections, “The Effects of Prison Visitation on Offender Recidivism,” November 2011, www.coursehero.com/file/21712260/11-11MNPrisonVisitationStudy.

274 over six hundred correctional facilities in forty-six states Jack Smith IV, “The End of Prison Visitation,” Mic, May 5, 2016, www.mic.com/articles/142779/the-end-of-prison-visitation.

274 around three-quarters of the jails Shannon Sims, “The End of American Prison Visits: Jails End Face-to-Face Contact—and Families Suffer,” The Guardian, December 9, 2017.

274 local jails block access Rayna Karst, “Newton County Jail Video-Only Visitation Policy Draws Praise, Criticism,” Joplin Globe, April 6, 2019; Isabelle Altman, “Lowndes County Jail Implements Video Visitation for Inmates,” The Dispatch (Columbus and Starkville, MI), April 5, 2019; WPTA21 (Fort Wayne, Indiana), “Allen County Jail to Use Video Visitation Instead of In-Person Visits,” March 11, 2019.

274 as much as $1 a minute Bernadette Rabuy and Peter Wagner, “Screening Out Family Time: The For-Profit Video Visitation Industry in Prisons and Jails,” Prison Policy Initiative, January 2015, www.prisonpolicy.org/visitation/report.html.

276 A 2015 report Ella Baker Center for Human Rights et al., “Who Pays?”

276 healthy family relationships reduce Ryan Shanahan and Sandra Villalobos Agudelo, “The Family and Recidivism,” American Jails, September–October 2012.

276 sells video visitation Securus Technologies, “Watching Them Grow with Securus Technologies Video Visitation,” May 31, 2016, youtu.be/ictEY26Tw8M.

276 bans on the practice Grassroots Leadership, “Legislation Protecting In-Person County Jail Visits Goes into Effect,” September 1, 2015, grassrootsleadership.org/releases/2015/09/legislation-protecting-person-county-jail-visits-goes-effect; Lucius Couloute, “New Massachusetts Reform Package Aims to Protect In-Person Jail Visits,” Prison Policy Initiative, March 26, 2018, www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2018/03/26/ma_cj_reform18.

276 California has required in-person visits Bernadette Rabuy, “California Legislators Continue Fighting for In-Person Jail Visits,” Prison Policy Initiative, September 6, 2017, www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/09/06/california-hearing-visits.

276 Texas cut inmate phone calls Angela Helm, “Texas Prison System Slashes Price of Inmate Phone Calls by 77 Percent, Contractor to Set Up Video Phones,” The Root, August 26, 2018, www.theroot.com/texas-prison-system-slashes-price-of-inmate-phone-calls-1828612862.

276 made all calls free Joshua Sabatini, “SF Plans to Make Jail Calls Free for Inmates,” San Francisco Examiner, July 12, 2019; Zoe Greenberg, “Phone Calls from New York City Jails Will Soon Be Free,” New York Times, August 6, 2018.

276 call volume increased 38 percent Tweet from Worth Rises (@WorthRises), May 3, 2019, twitter.com/WorthRises/status/1124407971667161091.

276 Connecticut was about to follow suit Rachel M. Cohen, “Free Prison Calls Could Finally Be Coming to Connecticut,” The Intercept, April 2, 2019, theintercept.com/2019/04/02/connecticut-free-prison-calls.

277 wavered on supporting it Rachel M. Cohen, “Connecticut’s Democratic Governor Is Stonewalling a Bill at Would Make Phone Calls from Prison Free,” The Intercept, May 23, 2019, theintercept.com/2019/05/23/connecticut-prison-inmate-calls.

277 protesting video-only visits Matt Lakin, “Rally Demands Return of Face- to-Face Visits at Knox County Jail,” Knoxville News Sentinel, January 29, 2018; Matt Lakin, “Lawsuit Blasts Video Visitation Rules at Knox Jail, Demands Return of In-Person Visits,” Knoxville News Sentinel, January 14, 2019.

277 left to go work for Tech Friends LinkedIn, “Terry Wilshire,” www.linkedin.com/in/terry-wilshire-a79b3015.

277 immediately reinstated in-person visitation WFAE 90.7, “In-Person Visitations Restored at Mecklenburg County Jails, Sheriff’s Office Says,” January 16, 2019.

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279 owned 1,478 funeral homes SCI Corporate Communications, “Service Corporation International Announces Second Quarter 2019 Financial Results and Raises Guidance,” July 29, 2019, investors.sci-corp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/service-corporation-international-announces-second-quarter-2019.

279 2013 purchase of Stewart Enterprises Erin Mulvaney, “2 Top Funeral Services Companies Join in $1.2 billion Deal,” Houston Chronicle, May 29, 2013.

279 more than one of every five dollars Tanya D. Marsh, “Regulated to Death: Occupational Licensing and the Demise of the U.S. Funeral Services Industry,” Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 8, no. 1 (2018): 5–27.

279 expressed ghoulishly Service Corporation International, Annual Report for the Year Ending December 31, 2018, Securities and Exchange Commission, investors.sci-corp.com/static-files/c1a836de-f4f7-4878-9521-2aac16e64925.

279 Investor concerns about changing desires Spencer Jakob, “Death-Care Stocks Have Made a Killing for Investors. Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye,” Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2019.

279 never heard of SCI Michael Waters, “The Death Industry Is Getting Away with Murder,” Washington Monthly, July 23, 2019.

279 earns more than five times Marsh, “Regulated to Death.”

279 virtually no prices for burials Joshua Slocum and Stephen Brobeck, “A Needle in a Haystack—Finding Funeral Prices Online in 26 State Capitals,” Funeral Consumers Alliance and Consumer Federation of America, January 29, 2018, consumerfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/needle-in-a-haystack-finding-funeral-prices-online-report.pdf.

279 47 to 72 percent higher Joshua Slocum, “Death with Dignity? A Report on SCI/Dignity Memorial High Prices and Refusal to Disclose These Prices,” Funeral Consumers Alliance and Consumer Federation of America, March 2017, consumerfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/3-6-17-Funeral-SCI_Report.pdf.

280 82 percent of all coffins Data from the Open Markets Institute, concentrationcrisis.openmarketsinstitute.org/industry/coffin-casket-manufacturing.

280 SCI takes this to a higher level Waters, “The Death Industry Is Getting Away with Murder.”

280 2018 lawsuit in Brownsville, Texas Service Corporation International and SCI Texas Funeral Services, Inc. v. Maria Ruiz, Court of Appeals, 13th District of Texas, January 25, 2018, law.justia.com/cases/texas/thirteenth-court-of-appeals/2018/13-16-00699-cv.html.

280 SCI stacks its consumer contracts Service Corporation International and SCI Texas Funeral Services, Inc. v. Maria Ruiz.

280 Federal Trade Commission announced plans Federal Trade Commission, “FTC Announces Regulatory Review Schedule,” May 7, 2019, www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/05/ftc-announces-regulatory-review-schedule.

280 current rule is routinely flouted Tracy Samilton, “Why the Funeral Rule Is One of the Least-Known Consumer Protection Laws in the Country,” Michigan Radio, October 22, 2018, www.michiganradio.org/post/why-funeral-rule-one-least-known-consumer-protection-laws-country.

280 substitute the language “price by request” Slocum and Brobeck, “A Needle in a Haystack.”

12. Monopolies Are Why I Traveled to Chicago and Tel Aviv to Learn How to Stop Them

281 beyond just consumer welfare Open Markets Institute, “Restoring Anti- monopoly Through Bright-Line Rules,” ProMarket, April 26, 2019, promarket.org/restoring-antimonopoly-through-bright-line-rules.

281 structurally separate functions Elizabeth Warren, “Here’s How We Can Break Up Big Tech,” Medium, March 8, 2019.

281 laws preventing “supermarket”-style banks Ganesh Sitaraman, “The Case for Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-Era Law We Need Today,” The Guardian, June 16, 2018.

281 Robinson-Patman Act Will Kenton, “Robinson-Patman Act,” Investopedia, October 20, 2019, www.investopedia.com/terms/r/robinson-patman-act.asp.

281 a state-run bank David Dayen, “A Bank Even a Socialist Could Love,” In These Times, April 17, 2017.

281 local ownership of pharmacies Olivia LaVecchia, “In Big Win for Local Ownership, North Dakota Votes to Keep State’s Pharmacy Law,” Institute for Local Self-Reliance, November 5, 2014, ilsr.org/big-win-local-ownership-north-dakota-votes-states-pharmacy-law.

281 public wireless companies Community Networks, “Community Network Map,” muninetworks.org/communitymap.

281 restrictions on dollar stores Marie Donahue, “Dollar Store Restriction—Tulsa, Okla.,” Institute for Local Self-Reliance, July 2, 2019, ilsr.org/rule/dollar-store-dispersal-restrictions/dollar-store-restriction-tulsa-okla.

281 antitrust authorities’ guidelines United States Department of Justice Archives, “1968 Merger Guidelines,” www.justice.gov/archives/atr/1968-merger-guideline.

281 Bell Labs consent decree David Dayen, “Big Tech: The New Predatory Capitalism,” American Prospect, December 26, 2017.

282 case against Microsoft changed the culture Victor Luckerson, “‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley,” The Ringer, May 18, 2018, www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years.

283 The current roster Arnold & Porter, “Antitrust/Competition,” www.arnoldporter.com/en/services/capabilities/practices/antitrust-competition.

283 routinely overruled lower-level FTC staffers David Dayen, “Why Are Drug Monopolies Running Amok? Meet Deborah Feinstein,” The Intercept, December 16, 2015.

283 in a 2013 speech Deborah L. Feinstein, “The Significance of Consent Orders in the Federal Trade Commission’s Competition Enforcement Efforts,” Federal Trade Commission, remarks at GCR Live, September 17, 2013, www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_statements/significance-consent-orders-federal-trade-commission%E2%80%99s-competition-enforcement-efforts-gcr-live/130917gcrspeech.pdf.

283 Feinstein represented Elizabeth Amon, “Davis Polk, Arnold & Porter, Skadden: Business of Law,” Bloomberg, June 18, 2013.

283 most recently NxStage Medical David Dayen, “Watchdog Group Slams FTC for Revolving-Door Practices Ahead of Pending Staples Merger,” The Intercept, February 26, 2019.

283 current FTC chair represented Joseph J. Simons, bio, Paul Weiss, web.archive.org/web/20171112123136/https:/www.paulweiss.com/professionals/partners-and-counsel/joseph-j-simons.

283 worked at Kirkland & Ellis Sue Reisinger, “FTC Nominee Christine Wilson Discloses Her In-House Earnings at Delta,” Law.com, February 2, 2018, www.law.com/corpcounsel/sites/corpcounsel/2018/02/02/c-nominee-christine-wilson-discloses-her-in-house-earnings-at-delta.

283 an incredible 120 different corporate clients Public Citizen, “Federal Trade Commission’s Andrew Smith Has Conflicts with 120 Companies. How Can He Do His Job?” December 6, 2018, www.citizen.org/news/federal-trade-commissions-andrew-smith-has-conflicts-with-120-companies-how-can-he-do-his-job.

283 with Google’s main law firm David Dayen, “From Google Payroll to Government and Back Again,” The Intercept, January 13, 2016.

283 now writes papers Google Transparency Project, “Research Papers by Google-Funded Academics,” django.googletransparencyproject.org/table.

283 Makan Delrahim . . . worked David Dayen, “Democrats Face an Important Anti-Monopoly Test,” New Republic, September 6, 2017; Steven Overly and Margaret Harding McGill, “Google’s Onetime Hired Gun Could Now Be Its Antitrust Nightmare,” Politico, July 6, 2019.

283 Edith Ramirez joined Hogan Lovells Chris Johnson, “Former FTC Chair Joins Hogan Lovells to Lead Antitrust Practice,” Law.com, September 6, 2017, www.law.com/americanlawyer/almID/1202797350571.

283 repped YouTube last year Law360, “Google, YouTube Shake Privacy Suit over Kids’ Data Use,” April 1, 2019, www.law360.com/media/articles/1145087/google-youtube-shake-privacy-suit-over-kids-data-use.

283 now at Covington & Burling Terrell McSweeny, bio, Covington, www.cov.com/en/professionals/m/terrell-mcsweeny.

284 Democratic and Republican former enforcers Rick Claypool, “The FTC’s Big Tech Revolving Door Problem,” Public Citizen, May 23, 2019, www.citizen.org/article/ftc-big-tech-revolving-door-problem-report.

284 ProPublica estimates Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott, “These Professors Make More than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers,” ProPublica, November 16, 2016.

284 between Shapiro’s economic models and Carlton’s Hadas Gold and Jessica Schneider, “With First Witness, AT&T Aims to Undermine DOJ’s Case Against Time Warner Bid,” CNN, April 12, 2018.

284 Tepper wrote in 2019 Jonathan Tepper, “Why Regulators Went Soft on Monopolies,” American Conservative, January 9, 2019.

284 A 2017 Harvard Business School study Mihir N. Mehta, Suraj Srinivasan, and Wanli Zhao, “Political Influence and Merger Antitrust Reviews,” Harvard Business School, June 4, 2019, hbswk.hbs.edu/item/political-influence-and-merger-antitrust-reviews.

284 Administration officials held meetings David Dayen, “Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship with the Obama White House, in Two Charts,” The Intercept, April 22, 2016.

284 augments its millions Alana Abramson, “Google Spent Millions More than Its Rivals Lobbying Politicians Last Year,” Time, January 24, 2018.

284 underwriting hundreds of “independent” papers Olivia Solon, “Google Spends Millions on Academic Research to Influence Opinion, Says Watchdog,” The Guardian, July 12, 2017.

284 side with big business Zephyr Teachout, “Neil Gorsuch Sides with Big Business, Big Donors and Big Bosses,” Washington Post, February 21, 2017.

284 Economics Institute for Federal Judges Henry N. Butler, “The Manne Programs in Economics for Federal Judges,” Case Western Reserve Law Review 50, no. 2 (1999): 351–420.

284 a recent working paper Elliot Ash, Daniel L. Chen, and Suresh Naidu, “Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice,” working paper, March 20, 2019, elliottash.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ash-chen-naidu-2019-03-20.pdf.

284 Elizabeth Warren met her husband Stephanie Ebbert, “Family Long a Bedrock for Elizabeth Warren,” Boston Globe, October 25, 2012.

284 antitrust agency funding falling David McCabe, “Mergers Are Spiking, but Antitrust Cop Funding Isn’t,” Axios, May 7, 2018.

285 to go after organists Sandeep Vaheesan, “America’s Most Insidious Union-Buster? Its Own Government,” The Guardian, June 29, 2018.

285 supporting Uber over Uber drivers Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and Rasier, LLC, v. City of Seattle, et al., Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, brief of the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, November 6, 2017, www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy/amicus-briefs/2017/11/chamber-commerce-united-states-america-rasier-llc-v-city.

285 supporting Apple over Apple customers Apple v. Pepper, Supreme Court of the United States, amicus curiae brief, United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, May 2018, www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-204/46060/20180508135603183_17-204%20Apple%20v.%20Pepper%20%20-%20AC%20Pet.pdf.

285 slobbers over tech giants Matthew Buck and Sandeep Vaheesan, “Trump’s Big Tech Bluster,” New York Times, March 6, 2019.

285 in the space of a few months David Dayen, “The Big Tech Investigations at Should Have Started in 2012,” American Prospect, June 11, 2019.

285 became the launching pad David Dayen, “This Budding Movement Wants to Smash Monopolies,” The Nation, April 4, 2017.

286 funds came into control Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Israel, “The Silver Platter,” April 12, 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuIY7jn2w2E.

286 Nochi Dankner ran IDB Government of Israel, report of the Centralization Decrease Committee, July 31, 2016, www.gov.il/BlobFolder/unit/centralization_decrease_committee/he/Vaadot_ahchud_CentralizationDecreaseCommittee_opinion_RotemAmpartNegev.pdf.

286 controlled half the stock market Konstantin Kosenko, “Evolution of Business Groups in Israel: Their Impact at the Level of the Firm and the Economy,” Bank of Israel, April 16, 2008, www.boi.org.il/en/Research/Pages/papers_dp0802e.aspx.

286 seemingly impenetrably concentrated Dany Bahar, “Delivering on Eco- nomic Prosperity in Israel: How Monopolies Are Hampering the ‘Start-up Nation,’” Brookings Institution, May 4, 2016, www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/05/04/delivering-on-economic-prosperity-in-israel-how-monopolies-are-hampering-the-start-up-nation.

286 Audiotapes produced later Al Jazeera, “Caught on Tape: Netanyahu Pulling the Media Strings,” January 16, 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3HyewNrG4.

287 Four straight government bank supervisors FES Israel, “The Silver Platter.”

287 ran a special weekend edition Guy Rolnik, “Democracy or Economic Concentration. Your Choice,” Haaretz, July 6, 2010.

288 challenged incumbent telecom owners Guy Rolnik, “Learn from the French—Reducing Our Mobile Bills by 90%,” Huffington Post, October 20, 2014.

289 posted a Facebook message Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein, “Daphni Leef: Leading Israel’s Biggest Protest,” Two Nice Jewish Boys (podcast), December 31, 2018, jewishjournal.com/podcasts/twonicejewishboys/291641/episode-119-daphni-leef-leading-israels-biggest-protest.

289 said the chair Isabel Kershner, “Protests Grow in Israel, with 250,000 Marching,” New York Times, August 6, 2011.

289 as large as 430,000 Harriet Sherwood, “Israeli Protests: 430,000 Take to Streets to Demand Social Justice,” The Guardian, September 4, 2011.

289 they were instructed to stop coverage “Feder and Tiffenbron Hind It Up,” Pine Parsico, The7Eye, April 2, 2015, www.the7eye.org.il/153541.

290 interim report of the committee Steven Davidoff, “Overhaul of Israel’s Economy Offers Lessons for United States,” New York Times, January 7, 2014.

290 driving prices down 90 percent Rolnik, “Learn from the French.”

290 passed the Knesset unanimously Knesset vote, December 9, 2013, www.knesset.gov.il/vote/heb/Vote_Res_Map.asp?vote_id_t=19913.

290 The effect was dramatic Eran Azran, “Israeli Tycoons’ Holding Groups Have Been Cut Down to Size,” Haaretz, August 20, 2019.

290 IDB turned insolvent Sharon Wrobel, “Israel’s Dankner in Last-Ditch Debt Fight for Control of IDB,” Bloomberg, June 3, 2013.

290 tycoon-run conglomerates were dissolved David Wainer and Yaacov Ben-meleh, “Israel Turns the Screw on Tycoons,” Bloomberg Businessweek, January 15, 2018.

290 Danny for bribery Steven Scheer, “Former Hapoalim Chairman Dankner Gets 3 Years in Jail for Bribery,” Reuters, May 13, 2014.

290 Nochi for stock fraud TheMarker and Jasmin Gueta, “Israeli Ex-Tycoon Nochi Dankner Sentenced to Two Years for Stock Manipulation,” Haaretz, December 5, 2016.

290 Even Netanyahu Asher Schechter, “Benjamin Netanyahu Sided with Israel’s Oligarchs—and It Led to His Downfall,” ProMarket, November 25, 2019.

290 Rolnik won the Israeli version Haaretz, “Guy Rolnik, Founder of TheMarker, Receives Prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award,” December 29, 2013.

291 As The Economist wrote The Economist, “The University of Chicago Worries About a Lack of Competition,” April 12, 2017.

291 most well-known law review essays Lina Khan, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” Yale Law Journal 126, no. 3 (2017): 564–907.

291 I wrote for The Nation Dayen, “This Budding Movement.”

292 writing a platform Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, “2019 Antitrust and Competition Conference—Digital Platforms, Markets, and Democracy: A Path Forward,” University of Chicago, May 15–16, 2019, research.chicagobooth.edu/stigler/events/single-events/antitrust-competition-conference.

292 figures as varied as Elizabeth Warren, “Reigniting Competition in the American Economy,” remarks at New America’s Open Markets Program Event, June 29, 2016, www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/2016-6-29_Warren_Antitrust_Speech.pdf; Asher Schechter, “The White House Acknowledges: The U.S. Has a Concentration Problem; President Obama Launches New Pro-Competition Initiative,” ProMarket, April15, 2016, promarket.org/the-white-house-acknowledges-the-u-s-has-a-concentration-problem-president-obama-launches-new-pro-competition-initiative; Senate Committee on the Judiciary, “Oversight of the Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws,” March 9, 2016, www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/oversight-of-the-enforcement-of-the-antitrust-laws-2016.

292 Lynn got ousted from New America Kenneth P. Vogel, “Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant,” New York Times, August 30, 2017.

292 Roger McNamee, an early tech funder Roger McNamee, “I Invested Early in Google and Facebook. Now They Terrify Me,” USA Today, August 8, 2017.

292 so did Chris Hughes Chris Hughes, “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook,” New York Times, May 9, 2019.

292 “blood in the water” in Silicon Valley Ben Smith, “There’s Blood in the Water in Silicon Valley,” BuzzFeed, September 12, 2017.

293 more discussion of monopoly Elena Schneider, “How Sen. Amy Klobuchar Would Regulate Big Business,” Politico, May 19, 2019; Matthew Yglesias, “Booker Calls on Antitrust Regulators to Start Paying Attention to Workers,” Vox, November 1, 2017; Franklin Foer, “Elizabeth Warren’s Theory of Capitalism,” The Atlantic, August 28, 2018.

293 Bernie Sanders to John Hickenlooper Tara Golshan, “Read: Bernie Sand- ers Defines His Vision for Democratic Socialism in the United States,” Vox, June 12, 2019; John Hickenlooper, “Leveling the Playing Field for Small Businesses,” Medium, April 25, 2019.

293 proposed a “do not track” Makena Kelly, “Senator Proposes Strict Do Not Track Rules in New Bill,” The Verge, May 20, 2019.

293 studying the effect of tech concentration House Committee on the Judiciary, “House Judiciary Committee Launches Bipartisan Investigation into Competition in Digital Markets,” June 3, 2019, judiciary.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-judiciary-committee-launches-bipartisan-investigation-competition-digital.

293 forced Amazon to take down Eugene Kim, “Amazon Quietly Removes Promotional Spots That Gave Special Treatment to Its Own Products as Scrutiny of Tech Giants Grows,” CNBC, April 3, 2019.

293 holding meaningless field hearings Federal Trade Commission, “Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century,” September 13, 2018–June 12, 2019, www.ftc.gov/policy/hearings-competition-consumer-protection.

293 came to the Chicago conference Makan Delrahim, “Don’t Stop Believin’: Anti- trust Enforcement in the Digital Era,” remarks at Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, April 19, 2018, www.justice.gov/opa/speech/file/1054766/download.

293 sort out jurisdictional issues David McLaughlin and Naomi Nix, “Google’s Enemies Sharpen Complaints as DOJ Opens Antitrust Probe,” Bloomberg, June 4, 2019.

293 the parties abandoned the merger Arjun Panchadar and David Shepardson, “LSC, Quad/Graphics Abandon $1.4 Billion Merger After U.S. Antitrust Suit,” Reuters, July 23, 2019.

293 Justice Department announced a lawsuit Diane Bartz, “U.S. Sues to Stop Merger of Two Printing Companies,” Reuters, June 20, 2019.

293 judge sided with the FTC Tripp Mickle, Brent Kendall, and Asa Fitch, “Qualcomm’s Practices Violate Antitrust Law, Judge Rules,” Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2019.

293 Apple v. Pepper Apple v. Pepper, Supreme Court of the United States, oral arguments, November26, 2018, www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2018/17-204_32q3.pdf.

294 She joined the majority Apple v. Pepper, Supreme Court of the United States, ruling, May 13, 2019, www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-204_bq7d.pdf.

294 India prevented Amazon BBC News, “Amazon Forced to Pull Products in India as New Rules Bite,” February 1, 2019.

294 Germany outlawed Facebook’s Emily Dreyfuss, “German Regulators Just Outlawed Facebook’s Whole Ad Business,” Wired, February 7, 2019.

294 investigations against Big Tech John D. McKinnon, “States Prepare to Launch Investigations into Tech Giants,” Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2019.

294 pursuit of pharmacy benefit manager middlemen Bob Herman, “States Are the New Battleground for Drug Price Middlemen,” Axios, December 19, 2018.

294 bipartisan coalition in Virginia Gregory S. Schneider, “Coalition of Unlikely Allies Calls on State to Break Up Utilities, Deregulate Energy,” Washington Post, May 7, 2019.

294 Arizona has also taken aim Millicent Dent, “In Battle to Break Up Utilities, Arizona Steps to the Front Line,” Bloomberg, August 8, 2019.

294 forced fast-food giants Rachel Abrams, “8 Fast-Food Chains Will End ‘No-Poach’ Policies,” New York Times, August 20, 2018.

294 states banded together to sue Emily Birnbaum, “Four More States Join Attorneys General Lawsuit to Block T-Mobile-Sprint Merger,” The Hill, June 21, 2019.

294 increasingly used the same power Lydia DePillis, “Corporations Are Getting Bigger. Thank a Trial Lawyer for Keeping Them in Check,” CNN, May 14, 2019.

294 analyst’s report or activist investor Steve Schaefer, “JPMorgan Worth More in Pieces? Goldman Analysts Think Breakup Makes Sense,” Forbes, January 5, 2015; Patrick Thomas, “Daniel Loeb’s Third Point Calls for Breakup of Sony—Again,” Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2019.

294 United Technologies split Ankit Ajmera and Greg Roumeliotis, “United Technologies to Separate into Three Companies,” Reuters, November 26, 2018.

294 Google employees marched out Claire Stapleton et al., “We’re the Organizers of the Google Walkout. Here Are Our Demands,” The Cut, November 1, 2018, www.thecut.com/2018/11/google-walkout-organizers-explain-demands.html.

294 they won Kara Swisher, “After Paying Off Men Accused of Sexual Harassment, Google Says It Will Meet Many of the Protesters’ Demands,” New York Times, November 8, 2018.

294 Citizens organized long-shot initiatives Nicholas Confessore, “The Unlikely Activists Who Took on Silicon Valley—and Won,” New York Times, August 14, 2018.

294 supporters of public Wi-Fi David Z. Morris, “Private Providers Spent Nearly $1 Million to Fight Municipal Broadband in One Small Colorado City,” Fortune, December 10, 2017.

294 taken over Hollywood talent agencies Writers Guild of America, West, “Agencies for Sale: Private Equity Investment and Soaring Agency Valuations,” March 18, 2019, www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/members/member_info/agency_agreement/Agencies_for_Sale_WGA_31819.pdf.

294 new goal is “packaging fees” Steven Pearlstein, “Big Agencies and Studios Have a Lock on Hollywood. It’s High Time to Apply Antitrust Law,” Washington Post, September 7, 2019.

295 writers fired their agents Ross A. Lincoln, “‘ ousands’ of Members Have Signed Letters Firing Agents, WGA Says,” The Wrap, April 15, 2019, www.thewrap.com/thousands-of-members-have-signed-letters-firing-agents-wga-says.

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