Competition Is A Premise Of Capitalism— But Conservatives Have Stopped Believing In Competition
Instead Conservatives Advocate For Unfettered Monopoly Power When I read that Kamala wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 28% I had...
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Howie Klein
Aug 164 min read
Fixing The Price Of Hotel Room Rates— And Apartment Rentals— Violates The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
I’ve been traveling to NYC less recently because the hotel prices in the places I’ve always stayed have sky-rocketed. They were never...
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Howie Klein
Jul 285 min read
Today All That Matters Is That Kamala Beats Trump— But What Happens When She Becomes President?
Biden Let Something Good Happen— Will Kamala Sell It Out? I know, I know… everybody’s supposed to say what a great president Biden was...
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Howie Klein
Apr 265 min read
Airplane Travel: I’m So Old That I Remember When… Flying Was A Joy
The airlines thought of themselves as a service industry and competed with other airlines to make every customer feel important,...
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Howie Klein
Jun 15, 20233 min read
The Democratic Establishment Actually Encourages Bad Democrats— They WANT More Manchins And Sinemas
70% of voters just blindly select whichever candidate has a “D” or an “R” next to their name. In congressional races that usually enough...
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Howie Klein
Oct 1, 20227 min read
Left Populist Messaging Is A Winning Midterm Strategy-- Democratic Candidates Should Embrace It
Although many people are trying to, the midterms are too close to call; apparently, the country either has too many MAGAs or there are...
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Howie Klein
Sep 30, 20224 min read
Corrupt Conservatives Still Favor Monopolies Over The American People
Rushing to end their legislative business before leaving DC for the midterm campaigns, Congress passed a slew of bills yesterday. I want...
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Howie Klein
Jul 20, 20222 min read
Out Of Control Monopolies Like Google & Amazon Sure Know How To Control Schumer, Pelosi & Hoyer
This morning John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman had a quick couple of paragraphs for Punchbowl News about presidential hopeful Amy...
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Howie Klein
May 22, 20224 min read
We Should Be Fighting For Transformative Candidates, Not For Partisan Hacks
This Tuesday has 3 red states with Senate primaries: Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia. All the Republicans running are horrible almost...
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Howie Klein
Feb 18, 20228 min read
What Will We Do About Inflation? All The Wrong Things, Of Course
With the consumer price index up 7.5%, the inflation rate is at a 40-year high. Everything is going up but wages, at least not fast...
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Howie Klein
Jan 27, 20223 min read
A 2022 Bright Light In Iowa: Austin Frerick For State Senate
It can get pretty frustrating for a progressive in Iowa. For a state that once regularly elected populists to office, it has turned...
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Howie Klein
Nov 13, 20218 min read
Foreign Powers Are Buying Up American Land-- Lucas Kunce Explains Why This Is A Problem In Missouri
Democratic election committees, like the DCCC and DSCC, have a tendency to write off rural voters-- with a condescending offer, "let them...
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Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20215 min read
Wisconsin Dems Need A Populist Senate Candidate-- There Is One: Tom Nelson
Since narrowly awarding its 10 electoral votes to Trump in 2016, Wisconsin has turned back towards the Democrats in statewide races. Two...
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Howie Klein
Jul 25, 20216 min read
Roger McNamee Has Some Free Advice For Biden-- Let's Hope He Listens
Roger McNamee is an old friend who I know because of his two bands, Flying Other Brothers and, more recently, Moonalice. He once...
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Howie Klein
Jul 15, 20215 min read
Tales From The Sausage Factory: Ugly Corruption... Uglier Leadership Battles
There were two fascinating inside baseball stories that broke this morning, neither of which is likely to get much mainstream media play....
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Howie Klein
Jun 22, 20214 min read
Tomorrow Is Do Or Die For Big Tech Accountability
Tomorrow is a big day for people interested in the serious antitrust measures Congress has been considering for nearly a year and a half....
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Howie Klein
Apr 26, 202112 min read
Who Would You Rather See In Prison? Trump Or Zuckerberg?
I don't know many people who have good feelings about either Facebook or Google. Do you? But do their senior executives really deserve to...
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Howie Klein
Jan 1, 20218 min read
Without Racial Justice, America Will Never See Any Real Economic Justice, Not In 2021, Not Ever
This morning, NY Times reporters Neil Irwin and Weiyi Cai noted that "The central, befuddling economic reality of the United States at...
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