David Dayen's Weekly Newsletter

  • April 19, 2017 Mr. Dayen Goes to Sacramento

    There I am on the right, at the California State Assembly's Business and Professions Committee , testifying about pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen in the drug suppl...

  • April 14, 2017 The Art of Saying the Deal Out Loud When You Have No Leverage

    The other day, master negotiator Donald Trump decided to act like a Bond villain and dictate his strategy in public for his adversaries to hear. Still obsessed

  • April 12, 2017 The antitrust movement finds a spark

    I ended up juggling too many stories this week to comment on the United debacle , the ensuing corporate PR

  • April 07, 2017 The bomb-praise-bomb feedback loop

    I've taken care over the last couple years not to opine on topics where I don't have a core competency. So take my remarks on the recent strike on Syria for what they're worth. But I don't know how ma...

  • April 05, 2017 The student debt/homeownership link, confirmed

    There's been this ongoing wonk argument about the importance of student debt in broad sectors of the economy, particularly durable goods like housing. The working theory is that graduates burdened by ...

  • March 31, 2017 Oops here's that Bank of America story

    Sorry folks, when I sent my newsletter earlier today I highlighted a story I wrote for Vice about a foreclosure nightmare that cost Bank of America $46 million. I never added the link. Here it is:

  • March 31, 2017 Monopoly Middlemen in Your Medications

    I was out of town this week for three days at a conference on monopolies (about which more later). Every time I go to a conference it takes about a day to unwind from the discombobulation, which expla...

  • March 24, 2017 The Gang that Couldn't Legislate Straight

    Get ready to keep witnessing omnishambles like the Republican health bill for the next year and a half, at least. This is what you get from a combination of a caucus that has no consensus and a leader...

  • March 22, 2017 Mall Rats Now Describes the Only Form of Life Left In Them

    The legendary Atrios used to use the little quip "The Mall is Flat " to highlight the fact that Tom Friedman is the...

  • March 17, 2017 Handing Over the Roads and Bridges

    Brad DeLong is wondering what happen...