Bear Market
Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Walz Right In
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How to couch a negative approach in political messaging.
Read “Our Friend the Smear” by Bill Wasik
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Democratic strategists talk shop and speed-run a run for president.
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Andrew Cockburn considers Walter Karp’s analyses of the machinations of Democratic power: “Karp once wrote that ‘we can judge the character of public men only by what they actually do.’”
Google-opoly
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Barry C. Lynn on the new monopolies destroying open markets: “A few giants have managed to fence in market after market for hardware, software, and content…Google—even while branding itself as the dreamiest of inventors—vacuumed up close to a hundred companies.”
Read “Killing the Competition”
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Rebecca Solnit links the railroad monopolies of the past to the tightly-controlled web of the present: “There was no alternative to their transit networks, just as there is nowadays, for example, virtually no alternative to Google’s vast and spreading information networks.”
Read “The Octopus and Its Grandchildren”
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“Anti-trust experts have a phrase: ‘Show me the power and I will show you its abuse.’”
Read “U.S. vs. A&P” by John Williams Andrews
Risky Business
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On the boom before the bust: “It is a commonplace observation that the last few years have witnessed the development of a bull market in this country like no market the world has ever seen before. One phase of this market may be drawing near its end…”
Read “Bull Market” by Charles Merz
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A guide to Reaganomics.
Read “Holding It Together Until November” by L. J. Davis
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On the future of the stock market.
Read “Slow Crash,” Andrew Cockburn’s interview with economist Michael Hudson
Grin and Bear It
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“The antics of the bear on these occasions are represented as exceedingly amusing.”