{"id":83684,"date":"2026-10-07T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=83684"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:45:38","slug":"consolidation-and-concentrated-power-costs-americans-in-housing-and-beyond-why-antitrust-enforcement-should-be-midterm-issue-but-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/10\/07\/consolidation-and-concentrated-power-costs-americans-in-housing-and-beyond-why-antitrust-enforcement-should-be-midterm-issue-but-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Consolidation and Concentrated Power Costs Americans in Housing and Beyond \u2013 Why Antitrust Enforcement Should be Midterm Issue, But Isn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0“The Crooked E<\/a>.” Theranos<\/a>. WorldCom.<\/a> Sam <\/a>Bankman-Fried. The 2008 housing\/financial crisis<\/a>. Those are examples of massive frauds and\/or systemic failures hiding in plain sight for years in the ‘information age.’ Regardless of which of the two major political parties were in power in Washington, D.C., how was evidence of this or that looming crisis often downplayed by the leadership of federal regulatory agencies until the problems became too big to ignore? When citizens think about data centers, artificial intelligence (AI), and regulation, we should not be na\u00efve. Regulators can and do fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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