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<title><![CDATA[Matt Stoller - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23127.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Matt Stoller]]></description><category domain="23127">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Something Is Very Off About the Latest AI Panic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/is-artificial-intelligence-going</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why are big AI firm trying to create billionaires from a technology they say may end the world? There are real risks to AI, but something is very off about the latest social panic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boom: Ticketmaster Guilty of Monopolization]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-ticketmaster-guilty-of-monopolization</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Company execs joked about their customers, privately saying they were]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[BOOM: Senate Votes To Block Private Equity Buying Homes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-senate-votes-to-block-private</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For 15 years, elites have fought against homeownership by ordinary people, instead pushing a renter society. That may have ended with an 89-10 vote in the Senate against Wall Street owning homes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amazon Busted for Widespread Scheme To Inflate Prices]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-busted-for-widespread-price</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Epstein Saga Is About Neoliberal Governance, Not Pedophilia]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/2018388941389373748</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Jeff Epstein saga isn't a scandal about pedophilia, it's about a Russian word called 'blat,' a Soviet-era word meaning 'the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures.' It's about a kind of government.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[BOOM: Congress Finally Acts on UnitedHealth, CVS, Cigna]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-the-break-up-of-big-medicine</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pharmacy benefit managers owned by UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna drive up costs and harm patients. Finally, the House and Senate agreed on rules to cut into their power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Google Become Our AI-Powered Central Planner?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Google may monopolize the market for AI consumer services. And now it is now rolling out a service to help businesses set prices, based on what it knows about us. The failure of antitrust was costly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Netflix Buying Warner Bros Discovery Would Be a Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/netflix-is-trying-to-buy-warner-bros</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Netflix won the bidding war to buy Discovery/Warner Brothers and consolidate Hollywood, but a Netflix-Warner merger looks illegal. It's likely to face meaningful political and antitrust hurdles.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Judge Lets Google Get Away With Monopoly]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-judge-lets-google-get-away-with</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judge Amit Mehta had a chance to restore some semblance of the rule of law when he handed down a remedy decision in the Google case. He didn't. Google won this round. And Wall Street is rejoicing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How a Beltway Brain Trust Sells Oligarchy to Liberals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-abundance-of-sleaze-how-a-beltway</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How did a debate over housing become a call to end the anti-monopoly movement? Abundance co-author Derek Thompson used slimy tactics to protect wealth and power in America. It's worth examining how.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are We Pretending AI Is Going To Take All the Jobs?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we-pretending-ai-is-going</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, generative AI is transformational. Will it eliminate most entry-level jobs? That depends. Will we continue to demand excessive returns on capital? If so, then we're in trouble.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Google Still in One Piece?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-google-still-in-one-piece</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Google has lost three separate antitrust cases, and more are on the way. Why does this company still exist in one piece? It shouldn't, but we're still dealing with the hangover of the 1990s.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Kamala Be Hillary 2.0?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/will-kamala-be-hillary-2-0/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, a little-noticed fight broke out among Democrats that could upend the 2024 election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Is the Republican Lina Khan?]]></title>
							<link>https://compactmag.com/article/where-is-the-republican-lina-khan</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most effective public official in Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s administration was Joe Simons, the man the 45th president tapped as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, the little-noticed antitrust agency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Baby Formula Shortage Was Completely Preventable]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/13/baby-formula-shortage-crisis-matt-stoller</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortages of vital, life-preserving goods are routine in America '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and they're the product of bad policy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Bottle: The Baby Formula Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/big-bottle-the-baby-formula-nightmare?s=r</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is a true crisis that is a long-time coming. Thank the baby formula monopoly, its partner at the Food and Drug Administration, and the Department of Agriculture.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem Is Facebook's Concentrated Monopoly Power]]></title>
							<link>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-facebook-whistleblower-is-heroic</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frances Haugen got a lot right. But a digital regulator that legitimizes Facebook's power would be the worst possible outcome.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why U.S. Faces Supply-Chain Disruption and Shortages]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/01/america-supply-chain-shortages</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortages in the United States are piling up. Covid isn't the only reason for the problem]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Counterfeit Capitalism Leads to Inflation, Shortages]]></title>
							<link>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/counterfeit-capitalism-why-a-monopolized</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From railroads to plastic bags to semiconductors to ice cream, Wall Street and monopolists are creating shortages and exploiting them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Breaking Up Facebook Is Hard But Overdue]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/the-us-government-wants-to-break-up-facebook-good-its-long-overdue/ar-BB1bQlV3</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America broke up logging companies in the 1840s, Standard Oil in the 1910s, and AT&amp;T in the 1980s. It's time to take on big tech]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Stunning Illustration of the Extent of Misdeeds by Big Tech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/30/congress-forced-silicon-valley-to-answer-for-its-misdeeds-it-was-a-glorious-sight</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The five and a half hour long hearing on Capitol Hill offered a stunning illustration of the extent of misdeeds by big tech]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Amazon, Facebook, Google &amp; Apple Are Bad for U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2020/07/28/agenda-amazon-facebook-google-apple-hearing-383612</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We used to believe that monopolies harm the economy and democracy. They still do.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy, Free Press]]></title>
							<link>http://bt24news.com/analysis-comment/opinion-tech-companies-are-destroying-democracy-and-the-free-press/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the presidential election approaches, the cracks in the digital facade are once again showing. Facebook just removed an I Love America page, run by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Break-Up of Big Tech Is Finally Beginning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/09/the-great-break-up-of-big-tech-is-finally-beginning</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Google and Facebook are the subject of large antitrust investigations. This is good news for our democracy and a free press]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Economic Policies a Disaster for Working Class]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/12/democrats-cant-win-until-they-recognize-how-bad-obamas-financial-policies-were/?utm_term=.eaa60b061a74</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Is Ruining the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/09/04/favoritesonsanddaughters</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Stoller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the debt ceiling fiasco to the recent rescheduling of a jobs speech at the behest of Speaker Boehner, it has not been a good summer for President Obama. Like Chinese water torture, Gallup's daily tracking poll has shown a steady and unrelenting drip of bad news. He has been in and...]]></description>
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