Jonathan Tepper is the Chief Investment Officer at Prevatt Capital. Jonathan is the founder of Variant Perception. Formerly, he was an analyst at SAC Capital and a Vice President on the proprietary trading desk at Bank of America. Jonathan earned a BA with Highest Honors in History and Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a [...]. in Modern History from the University of Oxford. Jonathan is a Rhodes Scholar.

Denise Hearn is a writer, researcher and project catalyzer focused on how money and power manifest in economic and financial systems. She advises governments, financial institutions, companies, and nonprofits on economic policy and new economic thinking. Denise is a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, and her writing has been featured in publications such as: The Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, Fortune, and The Washington Post. Denise has an MBA from the Oxford Saïd Business School and a BA from Baylor University.

Foreword xiii
Matt Stoller

Introduction xix

Chapter One: Where Buffett and Silicon Valley Billionaires Agree 1

Chapter Two: Dividing Up the Turf 21

Chapter Three: What Monopolies and King Kong Have in Common 35

Chapter Four: Squeezing the Worker 63

Chapter Five: Silicon Valley Throws Some Shade 87

Chapter Six: Toll Roads and Robber Barons 111

Chapter Seven: What Trusts and Nazis Had in Common 139

Chapter Eight: Regulation and Chemotherapy 169

Chapter Nine: Morganizing America 197

Chapter Ten: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle 213

Conclusion: Economic and Political Freedom 235

Notes 251

Acknowledgments 287

About the Authors 289

Index 291