As regular and detail mined readers may know, “Making Sense of the News” is a tag line used by Washington, D.C. based WMAL, a.k.a.; “Washington’s Mall.” In an era of “Manufacturing Consent” via big media, big tech, big business, and big government, to better understand our professional reality there is …
Gail Slater was named last week as President-Elect Donald J. Trump (R) pick to be the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice. “Great pick by @realDonaldTrump,” said Andy Yen. “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little …
Goliath is a book that ““Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business,” said Simon and Schuster about Matt Stoller’s tome. Stoller is also the author of …
“Workers and independent business people – even in the professional class – are supremely mad at monopolists,” said Matt Stolller in his Big newsletter on 11.5.2021. “Writing about monopoly is largely about pointing out problems, but increasingly it’s also about showing a society waking from its slumber, and beginning to …
“I’m not willing to give up and let a handful of monopolists dominate our economy and democracy,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said in the last Democratic debate held in Ohio. “It’s time to fight back.” That’s a pull quote from both the debate and the video posted below. Once more, it is an MSNBC video that features Matt Stoller, author of Goliath, from the …
To set the table for this specific and all of our sources and reports, thinking readers must be able to sift through the chaff and save the wheat. The Open Markets Institute is certainly one of the more aggressive researchers and advocates into the important topic of the monopolization of …
As left-leaning Matt Stoller noted as cited in the report provided in Part I by right-leaning the WND News Center, Google violated the tying provision of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. As regular and detail-minded readers of MHProNews may recall, that tying provision is what consumer advocate …
“These politicians run on their ‘intentions’ – never their results,” said the column from the WND News Center which provided MHProNews the op-ed that follows in Part I by Laura Hollis. Per her bio in brief from WND: “Laura Hollis is an attorney and educator. She resides in Indiana with …
In an email from Matt Stoller and his “Big” newsletter and on his Substack page, Stoller on 8.17.2022 introduced his topic by saying “Today’s issue is written by an anonymous guest-author. It’s about the emergence of the financial model currently ruling America, which is known as private equity, and why …
According to the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) on 7.3.2025: “Manufactured Housing Production Falls Slightly in May 2025.” While that may be true, what the MHARR posted data provided in Part I didn’t explicitly say but did show is that 6 of the top ten …
“The government wants high quality, low cost housing and manufactured housing provides that product.” That’s attributed to Warren Buffett per the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and their former Vice President Jason Boehlert. According to Matt Stoller in Part I (emphasis added by MHProNews) “Buffett helped cause the housing crisis through …
According to left-leaning antitrust podcaster and author Matt Stoller: “Trump’s antitrust enforcer Bill Rinner gave a signal this administration is going to foster a lot of consolidation.” Bill Rinner is a DAAG, or Deputy Assistant Attorney General, in the antitrust division. Having followed and reported on Stoller for years, it …
Several seemingly different topics will be woven into a single article, as the headline for today clearly reflects. The remarks about monopolists in Part I will be from author and anti-trust thinker Matt Stoller. The Golden Age vs. Stone Age is inspired by but not a quote based on a …
From a recent (January 2025) Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) email is this statement. “Political Action: Learn how to get involved with MHI’s Political Action Committee and hear more about the impact MHI is making on Capitol Hill.” More on that later, but an apparent primary purpose of MHI meetings and …
Terminology can be useful to grasping concepts that may or may not otherwise be as clear absent useful nomenclature or terminology. There are several forms of power which could for the purpose of the preface for this article be boiled down to two. There is apparent power and what some …
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK). BlackRock (BLK). Vanguard (several stock symbols). State Street (several stock symbols). Those companies are financial giants. They are among the deepest corporate pockets on planet Earth. Those four mega-corporations are all invested in various aspects of HUD Code manufactured housing. Which should beg the question. Why is …
The National Association of Realtor (NAR) is what might be considered a “normal” trade group that seems to more authentically care about accurate data that is distributed to the public on a monthly basis. Like the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), which also reports accurate and monthly data …
“The most successful people go right when everyone else goes left,” the Wall Street Journal stated on May 5, 2017,” the opening remark in an article linked here that probes insights from the now-late Sam Zell that quoted him saying: “When Everyone is Going Left, Look Right.” When you follow the facts, evidence, …
There are several business, general election, and potential manufactured housing industry related insights that can be drawn from the Mark Hemingway via RealClearInvestigations (RCI) 10.14.2024 article: “Buying the News: How Leftwing Donors Are Taking Over Local Journalism.” Note that Hemingway cites sources across the left-right media divide in order to …
To set the table for what follows, let’s consider this partial list of mainstream and specialized publishers who have dealt with troubling aspects of concerns connected to the manufactured home industry. The Atlantic, the Nation, Center for Public Integrity, The Seattle Times, GuruFocus, BuzzFeed News, Austin Frerick while at the …
