The new corporate behemoths have been very good for their executives and largest shareholders — and bad for almost everyone else. Sooner or later, the companies tend to raise prices. Many of our economic ills — like income stagnation and a decline in entrepreneurship — stem partly from corporate gigantism. It’s time for another political movement, one that borrows from the Boston Tea Partiers, Jefferson, T.R. Conservatives, after all, are supposed to care about the ideals that monopolies undermine — like market competition, economic dynamic and individual freedom.

Source: New York Times November 26, 2018 00:00 UTC