You're Probably Getting Screwed by Private Equity

Interview with antitrust attorney Basel Musharbash

Welcome to You’re Probably Getting Screwed, a weekly newsletter and video series from J.D. Scholten and Justin Stofferahn about the Second Gilded Age and the ways economic concentration is putting politics and profits over working people.

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Welcome to another edition of You’re Probably Getting Screwed interviews!

This week I spoke with antitrust attorney Basel Musharbash who has his own firm, Anti-Monopoly Counsel. Basel also does work for Farm Action, including writing the brilliant report Kings Over the Necessaries of Life: Monopolization and the Elimination of Competition in America’s Agriculture System.

But the reason I had Basel on this week was to talk about a recent piece he wrote in Matt Stoller’s substack BIG that explores how a private equity roll-up in the firetruck industry that has made it more expensive and challenging for fire departments across the country to get the firetrucks they need.

Book Club!!!

A reminder that we have added a book club! You can check out our first book club discussion with author Austin Frerichs at this link.

Each month we will be promoting a book and at the end of the month will interview the author. We encourage folks to read the book and send in questions that we will ask the authors.

February’s book is “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power” by David Dayen, the executive editor of The American Prospect.

You can purchase “Monopolized” here. And be sure to send in your questions for David by commenting below.

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BEFORE YOU GO

A second reminder! If you have ideas on who to interview or what book should be the “book of the month” down the road, please let us know.

Break Em Up,

Justin Stofferahn