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[@LeeHepner](/creator/twitter/LeeHepner)
"In March 2023 Microsoft told a court "Game Pass prices will not increase as a result of the Microsoft-Activision Merger." On July XX 2023 a federal judge (whose son works at Microsoft) rejected the FTC's challenge to the merger. Once again: Lina Khan was right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1974149242932613593) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-03T16:27Z 9601 followers, 1.6M engagements


"Wow. At a conference yesterday California Supreme Court Chief Judge Patricia Guerrero took note of our ongoing efforts to reform the states antitrust law calling it important work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1981909360201826472) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-25T02:23Z 9600 followers, 4295 engagements


"The FTC just approved Mars $36B acquisition of Kellanova (Kelloggs) stating The Commission cares deeply about any competition concerns that affect American consumers including in food products. I mean COME ON. Mars has an infographic & catchphrase touting their overlaps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1938024329100263703) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-06-25T23:59Z 9599 followers, 33.9K engagements


"@besttrousers @talane98 Living for that Arnold Schwarzenegger data point 😂 Id guess he polls much higher today tho"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1982170942257103190) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-25T19:42Z 9601 followers, XX engagements


"@MattBruenig @matthewstoller I think what youre calling multivariate models is what I would describe as the ability to efficiently predict individual consumer price elasticity. And yes thats both the holy grail of price optimization as a Delta investor called it and highly problematic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1979238680834240747) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-17T17:30Z 9601 followers, XXX engagements


"@MattBruenig @matthewstoller I honestly think youre getting it. Youre close. Recognizing that baselines are not real is correct and the implication is a broader erosion of consumer price sensitivity. Its an attack on all consumers who benefit from marginal price sensitivity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1979240963982647630) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-17T17:39Z 9601 followers, 1174 engagements


"A colleague just sent me these screencaps showing Uber charging a XX% surcharge () when booking with the company credit card (L) vs her personal card (R.) Same route same time same rider different price. Outrageous THIS is surveillance pricing in action"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1978992260759846995) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-17T01:11Z 9601 followers, 48K engagements


"Great to see @sfchronicle @SFjkdineen writing about Barnes & Nobles roll-up of indie bookstores. B&N is owned by Elliott Advisors a $74B hedge fund. The bottom line: B&N is exploiting indie brands and leveraging buyer power to decimate actual indies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1982543443248447756) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-26T20:22Z 9602 followers, 3989 engagements


"This is such an important articulation of how addiction across our economy facilitated by algorithms that prey on our worst impulses is an outright abdication of moral responsibility. The connection to surveillance advertising sports gambling and Buy Now Pay Later is spot on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1982563210822889675) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-26T21:41Z 9601 followers, 22.7K engagements


"100 million Americans hold medical debt. Health care premiums for XX million Americans are about to go up by as much as 75%. Now this on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1982987386624848257) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-28T01:46Z 9601 followers, 3416 engagements


"So FTC rubber stamped a $XXXX billion ad agency deal because one of the merging parties folded to Elon Musk's threat to increase its ad spend on X - "or else." Turns out the merger itself is really about - you guessed it - surveillance pricing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1950191957067653495) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-07-29T13:49Z 9600 followers, 8165 engagements


"Its happening in real time. San Francisco was just duped into thinking Marc Benioff saved us from the National Guard when he was the one who called for it. The people who get you into a mess will get you into it again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1982149921856954625) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-25T18:19Z 9600 followers, 1089 engagements


"It will come as no surprise that I also see this as a repudiation of the scale/efficiency economic pundits who have facilitated the systemic erosion of any shared moral framework via their vacuous theorizing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1982564554824679602) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-26T21:46Z 9600 followers, XXX engagements


"Recall @GovCox's comments that went viral in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. Glad to see him extrapolate this thinking to the addiction economy. The same tools used to coerce us into radicalizing information silos are fomenting broader economic harms too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1982566498985218213) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-26T21:54Z 9600 followers, XXX engagements


"Half of the corporations that paid for this are facing federal antitrust litigation or are under investigation for violating the antitrust laws: Google Meta Amazon Apple Microsoft Hewlett Packard and Union Pacific"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1981893457720545601) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-25T01:19Z 9601 followers, 73.3K engagements


"Read @matthewstollers latest tour de force on corporate sludge in the health care industry the phenomenon of health care rationing known as managed care and the death of Obamacare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1982988734607044995) [@LeeHepner](/creator/x/LeeHepner) 2025-10-28T01:52Z 9601 followers, XXX engagements