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American Oligopolies Are The New Monopolies | Boing Boing

April 16, 2013

Consider Barry Lynn's 2011 book, “Cornered,” which carefully detailed the rising concentration and consolidation of nearly every American industry since the nineteen-eighties. He found that dominance by two or three firms “is not the exception in the ...

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Drawing The Line On Big Beer | Times-Standard

March 17, 2013

According to a recent report by the New America Foundation, the industry's consolidation has raised prices and narrowed consumer choice. After InBev purchased Anheuser-Busch in 2008, a long-running price war between Anheuser-Busch and SABMiller ...

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Trinko: How Telecommuting Could Rejuvenate Family Life In America | Washington Times

March 3, 2013

As Jonathan Last observes in “What to Expect When No One's Expecting” (Encounter, 2013), “As Phillip Longman argues, telecommuting also offers something more: the possibility of returning the home to the center of economic activity in America.” If we ...

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Experts Available to Discuss American Airlines, US Airways Merger

February 14, 2013

Washington, D.C. — American Airlines and US Airways announced today a $11 billion deal to merge that if approved would create the world’s largest airline and leave four national carriers controlling around 70 percent of U.S. travel. Experts from the New America Foundation’s Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative (MERI) are available today to give reporters context for the proposed merger and its implications, which could include higher fares and less service in parts of the country.
 

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Single For Life? The Social Costs Of Fewer Families | Deseret News

February 4, 2013

The imbalance between raising the next generation and caring for the last creates perverse incentives, Phillip Longman argued in 2004. "As modern societies demand more and more investment in human capital," Longman said, "this demand threatens its ...

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Justice Department Moves To Block Beer Merger | NPR

February 1, 2013

Barry Lynn of the New America Foundation, a policy group, says back in the late '70s, there were about 50 beer companies. That market is almost gone now.

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Justice Department Sues To Stop Budweiser Maker From Taking Over Corona | The Huffington Post

January 31, 2013

“When you have that kind of market power you can sell less for more,” said Barry C. Lynn, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a left-leaning think tank. Lynn, the co-author of a recent report on beer company consolidation, called the Justice Department’s move a good first step.

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Video: Jan 31, 2013, Thu | Nightly Business Report

January 31, 2013

U.S. Justice Department sues to prevent Budweiser/Corona merger. Dollar/Yen exchange rate drops hurts U.S. earnings abroad. Women-owned businesses may head up the U.S. economic rebound. Doors open doors in the job market.

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Is the Budweiser-Corona Deal Salvageable? | Bloomberg News

January 31, 2013

New America Foundation's Barry Lynn and D.A. Davidson's Tim Ramey discuss the efforts by U.S. regulators to stop Anheuser-Busch InBev's acquisition of Grupo Modelo. They speak with Alix Steel and Adam Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."

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Feds Put Big Beer Merger On Ice | The Washington Times

January 31, 2013

“That's a very conservative number,” said Barry Lynn, director of the New America Foundation's markets, enterprise and resiliency initiative. “We actually think the number that they're using grossly understates the actual problem.” Sandeep Vaheesan ...

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