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Barry C. Lynn, the author of "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction," suggests that Americans' growing infatuation with power has led us to cede too much control to corporate giants. Likewise, military historian Andrew ...

Washington wanted the island to be a “showcase of noncommunist development” just off the coast of Communist China, as the New America Foundation's Barry Lynn explained in End of the Line. The United States supplied Taiwan with economic and military aid ...

As Barry C. Lynn showed in a luminous 2006 Harper's essay—later expanded into the book Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction—the new profit regime required a new antirust regime. US antitrust authorities still ...

America was born of rebellion against monopoly—over our souls, over our lands, over our commerce. Yet for most of 200 years Americans did a pretty good job of using local and state—and, later, federal—law to prevent the concentration of power over our markets and our selves.

Last August, on a blazing-hot Nebraska evening, I sat in a cool hotel bar in downtown Omaha and listened as a team of Dockers-clad union organizers joked, drank, and argued their way into an alliance with a group of southern and western ranchers. The organizers, from the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), made a simple argument: Meat-packing houses like JBS and Smithfield — their already immense power swelled from years of mergers — are using their dominance of cattle markets to hammer down what they pay for beef and for in-house unionized meatcutters.

Barry Lynn, a researcher and author who wrote a book about global supply chain vulnerabilities in 2005, said the Japanese-sparked disruption of the auto pipeline has been hidden so far because components are shipped to the US via sea. ...

The FDA has announced it will be monitoring food imported from Japan for radiation, and people are wondering if the world's food supply could now be at risk. And financial markets are echoing those fears. New America's Barry Lynn discusses if this could have been avoided if we created an industrial chain that puts us all at risk, no matter where an earthquake or tsunami may strike.

Barry Lynn, who writes about the dangers of monopoly capitalism, will deliver a lecture at 7 pm on Sept. 23 in Holt Hall at Chico State University. ...

In a new book entitled “Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction,” ... Barry C. Lynn, a journalist and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, lays out the case against the new monopolies and their role in stifling competition, ...

"Taking derivatives away from Goldman would be a huge change, it's their giant money fountain," said Barry C. Lynn, director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative at the New America Foundation, ...

Mr. Lynn is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington; he first came to my attention with a memorable 2006 essay in Harper's Magazine in ...

The dream of owning a successful small business is still alive in America and remains an essential part of our national self-image. But along the main streets and rural byways of the country today, in place of countless small businesses supporting millions of families in tens of thousands of communities, the banners of a few giant corporations now fly.