Zephyr Teachout (@zephyrteachout) 's Twitter Profile
Zephyr Teachout

@zephyrteachout

Antimonopolist, pluralist, populist, professor.

Books: Corruption in America, Break ‘em Up. Words @nytimes @foreignpolicy @thenation @nybooks @theprospect.

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linkhttps://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/zephyr-teachout/ calendar_today17-07-2008 13:38:46

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Robert Reich (@rbreich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Biden-Harris admin has taken anti-trust action against: -Amazon -Apple -Google -Microsoft -Meta -Kroger -JetBlue -Live Nation/Ticketmaster -Nvidia -OpenAI -RealPage Antitrust is back in a very big way — we need to keep spreading the word.

American Economic Liberties Project (@econliberties) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"My agenda includes what we need to do to bring down the price of groceries, for example dealing with price gouging." Great to see Kamala Harris affirm her commitment to cracking down on price gouging in the highly-consolidated food industry.👇📺

Zephyr Teachout (@zephyrteachout) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Harris repeats that she wants to keep the price of eggs stable and fair and the billionaire donors are rebelling says a lot about both market concentration and money in politics.

Isabella M. Weber (@isabellamweber) 's Twitter Profile Photo

FT View on Economics “gatekeeping & a steep hierarchy of prestige foster groupthink overseen by a self-perpetuating priesthood…When career incentives & social pressures concentrate influence in a small group, neither big policy mistakes nor petty personal abuse should surprise”

FT View on Economics
“gatekeeping & a steep hierarchy of prestige foster groupthink overseen by a self-perpetuating priesthood…When career incentives & social pressures concentrate influence in a small group, neither big policy mistakes nor petty personal abuse should surprise”
Basel Musharbash (@musharbash_b) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind

Lessig 🇺🇦 (@lessig) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is an extremely important point, buttressed by Zephyr Teachout's Break 'Em Up. The failure of antitrust regulators to do their job in this century produced a broken, uncompetitive food production system.

More Perfect Union (@moreperfectus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. The state takes 40% of wages and often denies parole to keep people as cheap labor. Getting written up can lead to solitary confinement. This is modern day slavery.

David Dayen (@ddayen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The movement for public banking has been years in the making. Now one of the first public banks since the progressive-era Bank of North Dakota is sprouting up in Rochester, New York. Yunior Rivas Garcia has the story. prospect.org/economy/2024-0…

American Economic Liberties Project (@econliberties) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kroger’s own testimony reveals they’re more concerned with matching Albertsons’ prices than taking on Walmart. This deal isn't about competing w/ Walmart. It's about direct competitors teaming up to monopolize local markets across the US.👇 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Zephyr Teachout (@zephyrteachout) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Master Plan is an astonishing master class in the story of legalizing American corruption over the last fifty years. Bravo The Lever. the.levernews.com/master-plan/

Carrie Goldberg (@cagoldberglaw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"'The gravy train is over,' Goldberg tells Mother Jones. 'These tech behemoths have been minting money for too long, comfortable with the notion that dead kids are the price of outrageous growth.'” motherjones.com/politics/2024/… by Abby Vesoulis

mike casca (@cascamike) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Machinists Union: “she championed the cause of the working class and called for a united front against corporate greed. her message was clear and resonant: a united working class is the key to securing a better future for everyone.” goiam.org/news/a-united-…

Zephyr Teachout (@zephyrteachout) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Khan's strongest receipts are the Money Power wanting her gone. She gets stuff done, and enforces the law. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…