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The Case for Breaking Up Walmart

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  • Barry C. Lynn,
  • New America Foundation
May 3, 2013 |

The Case for Breaking Up Walmart

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  • Barry C. Lynn,
  • New America Foundation
May 2, 2013 |

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 ...

The Return of the Monopoly: An Infographic

April 1, 2013

If February’s merger agreement between American Airlines and U.S. Airways sparked a sense of déjà vu, that may be because it would create the seventh major airline coupling since 2005.

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The Sidebar: Free Wifi and Beer

February 7, 2013
Sascha Meinrath gives us a reality check on the FCC's reported new national public wifi proposal. Barry Lynn tells us what's threatening the price - and variety - of beers. Elizabeth Weingarten hosts.

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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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 ...

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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Big Beer, A Moral Market, and Innovation

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  • Barry C. Lynn,
  • New America Foundation
January 2, 2013 |

On the surface, America's market for beer has never looked healthier. Where fewer than a hundred companies brewed a generation ago, we can now count more than 2,000, producing a mind-boggling variety of beers. Yet just below this drinker's paradise we find a market that has never been more concentrated. Two giants — Anheuser-Busch Inbev and MillerCoors — control some 90 percent of production.

Proposed Beer Merger Could Hurt Competition In U.S. | Marketplace

January 2, 2013

Barry Lynn, a fellow at the New America Foundation, argues that over the years, Anheuser Busch-InBev and the world's second largest beer company, MillerCoors, have created a monopoly. Neither company replied to our requests for interviews. “They have ...

Think Tank Lambastes Big Beer Brewers, Modelo Sale | ABC News

December 14, 2012

With Anhueser-Busch Inbev seeking a controlling share of Grupo Modelo, the brewer of Corona and Modelo Especial, the D.C.-based New America Foundation criticized the sale, which it says would solidify a virtual duopoly of the American beer market, ...

Robots And Robber Barons | New York Times

December 9, 2012

What about robber barons? We don't talk much about monopoly power these days; antitrust enforcement largely collapsed during the Reagan years and has never really recovered. Yet Barry Lynn and Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation argue, ...

Is Amazon a New Monopoly? | On the Media

November 23, 2012

Without the ability to work together, industry watchers say the 'Big 6' publishers won't be able to stop Amazon from pricing books as the company sees fit. Brooke speaks with Barry C. Lynn, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, who believes ...

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Trans-Pacific Partnership: The Biggest Trade Deal You've Never Heard of | Salon

October 23, 2012

New America scholar Barry Lynn has pointed out that China has a dangerous amount of leverage on our economy. China could at any point choose to shut off the flow of light bulbs, iPhones, critical medicines, food preservatives, or any number of pieces ...

Glasses Giant Crushing Competition? | CNBC

October 8, 2012

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Small Business in a World of Walmart and Amazon | MSNBC

October 7, 2012
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Innovation Requires Creative Leadership | The Seattle Times

September 23, 2012

Barry Lynn and Lina Khan, writing in Washington Monthly, dug deeper into census data and laid out evidence of a stunning drop in new business formation. A telling number: 35 new businesses that employed people were created for every 10,000 Americans ...

A Glitch in the Matrix

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  • Barry C. Lynn,
  • New America Foundation
September 11, 2012 |

Economic interdependence among nations, Americans have long believed, is the surest and safest path both to a wide prosperity and a perpetual peace. If all nations jointly depend together on one vast "global" factory for many basic goods, so our thinking holds, no one state will ever dare disrupt the functioning of this "communalized" system.

American Entrepreneurship has Declined 53% Since Reagan!

July 13, 2012

According to a new study released today by the New American Foundation, the number of entrepreneurs per capita has dropped by 53% since 1977. And since 1991, the number of Americans who are self-employed has dropped by more than 20%. In other words, Americans who use to be able to start their own businesses are increasingly being forced to join the ranks of the working poor.

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Out of Business

  • By
  • Barry C. Lynn,
  • Lina Khan,
  • New America Foundation
July 10, 2012

America’s entrepreneurial sector is in deep trouble. Although the mainstream media continues to promote the idea that the nation’s small and upstart businesses are either generally thriving or, at worst, recovering from the sudden blow of the Great Recession, a closer look at the data reveals the exact opposite to be true, with a long-standing decline in the numbers of independent startups per working-age American.

American Entrepreneurship Declining

July 10, 2012

Washington, D.C. - America's entrepreneurial activity has, by many measures, sharply declined over the last generation, according to a study released today by the New America Foundation's Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative.

The study found the number of new entrepreneurs, measured per capita, has been dropping for a generation - by 53 percent between 1977 and 2010. In addition, the share of self-employed Americans decreased by more than 20 percent between 1991 and 2010.

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