Hillary Clinton is putting antitrust enforcement front and center as a tool to fight income inequality, fingering industry consolidation as a major driver of said inequality. As I noted recently, antitrust enforcement was perhaps also the most important, if little-noticed, plank in the healthcare reform package Clinton put forward last month.
This is a big deal. Clinton is tying together high prices in key industries -- pharma and healthcare chief among them -- outsized compensation for the top 1%, including via stock buybacks, and the weakening of labor:
