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Welcome to You’re Probably Getting Screwed, a weekly newsletter and video series from J.D. Scholten and Justin Stofferahn about the Second Gilded Age and the ways economic concentration is putting politics and profits over working people.
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An in-depth look at how United uses it’s growing army of doctors. [ [link removed] ]
For more on how United’s acquisition of Change has allowed it to acquire even more providers. [ [link removed] ]
From the American Economic Liberties Project, a toolkit for how state’s can address healthcare consolidation [ [link removed] ] and a paper outlining a “Glass-Steagall for healthcare” that would keep insurers and providers separate [ [link removed] ].
YOU’RE PROBABLY (ALSO) GETTING SCREWED BY:
Beak Capitalism
In the final episode of Bloomberg’s special three-part series exploring the US economy through the chicken industry, they take a look at market competition and chat with leaders at the Department of Justice. This is worth a listen [ [link removed] ]!
Trump Tariffs
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to levy hefty tariffs on imports is expected to result in retaliation that hits farmers hard [ [link removed] ], repeating events of his first term, when Washington spent tens of billions of dollars to ease the pain on the agriculture sector. 
If the House farm bill would pass, it would prohibit use of the Commodity Credit Corporation to soften the blow to farmers from those retaliatory tariffs like last time.
Elon - Rigging the Economy
The world’s wealthiest person probably doesn’t have your interest in mind when he starts his new gig. When making the government “more efficient” it will be interesting to see what he does to the agencies as Mr. Musk’s companies are increasingly facing regulatory battles and overlapping federal investigations from all corners of the government [ [link removed] ]. Does anyone see a conflict of interest?
Baby Formula Shortage
Remember the baby formula shortage? To many of us in the anti-monopoly world, it has served as a canary in the coal mine about how vulnerable our economy is when things are so concentrated. Organized Money [ [link removed] ]’s latest podcast episode talks with Laura Modi, CEO of Bobby, about the industry.
Billionaires Influencing the Elections
Americans for Tax Fairness came out with a report a week before Election Day stating that 150 billionaire families have already smashed the billionaire campaign-spending record, contributing $1.9 billion in support of presidential and congressional candidates. [ [link removed] ]
SOME GOOD NEWS
New Substack Alert
We’re big fans of Claire Kelloway’ [ [link removed] ]s work! Claire is the program manager for fair food and farming systems at the Open Markets Institute. We are excited about her new Substack: Food & Power [ [link removed] ]! 
New Book Alert
The Patriotic Millionaires [ [link removed] ] have a new book out “Pay the People! Why Fair Pay Is Good For Business and Great for America.”
The Work Continues
While we are anticipating that leading Biden Administration trustbusters like Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter and Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan will unfortunately be shown the exit in a Trump Administration, David Dayen at The American Prospect has a good piece reminding us all that state attorneys general remain a powerful xxxxxx against corporate largesse. [ [link removed] ]
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Break ‘Em Up, 
Justin Stofferahn
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