Who’s The Biggest Monopolist Of All? (Hint: It’s Not A Corporation)

https://issuesinsights.com/2026/03/04/whos-the-biggest-monopolist-of-all-hint-its-not-a-corporation/

Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr.

March 4, 2026

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Excerpted, with permission, from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Click here to read the entire article

Policymakers often argue over whether capitalism works and how aggressively it should be restrained. But they rarely ask the more pertinent question: where, exactly, does large-scale laissez-faire capitalism even exist?

The uncomfortable answer is that in the 21st century, it barely does. Across sectors, federal policy does not merely regulate at the margins; it often coordinates at scale, sometimes through forms of rulemaking that do not appear in the traditional Federal Register. Prices, payment flows, entry conditions, risk allocation, technology adoption, and even product, service, and infrastructure design are often administered from the top down.

Conventional antitrust policy fixates on private-sector concentration, often treating mergers with reflective suspicion. The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, for example, measures market concentration at the firm level. But such transactions are largely beside the point. The deeper reality confronting the consumers antitrust law purports to protect is coercive public-sector concentration. Mergers and market concentration pale in comparison to the accumulation of federal steering authority over entire sectors, their business models, and ultimately the economy itself.

The irony of antitrust policy is that larger private firms are often beneficial — and increasingly necessary — to a productive future. Consider nationwide autonomous vehicle networks, drone corridors, charging infrastructure, data centers serving private AI and crypto ventures, smart cities, and commercial space enterprises. These projects require scale. Yet antitrust, in its block-and-tackle role, all but assures that government will steer them, since private firms are unlikely to be permitted to attain the scale necessary to coordinate such systems. This is one reason why we have at times called not for reform of antitrust, but for its abolition.

Subsidies, loan guarantees, public-private partnerships, and partial nationalizations further compound capitalism’s displacement.

The Capitol Control Quotient (CCQ) shifts the lens of suspicion from harmless and necessary evolutionary firm concentration to the concentration of political steering across entire sectors. It is illustrative and comparative, not econometric. There is no meaningful way to assign a literal “percentage controlled by Washington” to any given sector. The CCQ instead asks a comparative institutional question: Do companies and sectors govern themselves, or does federal policy dominate outcomes?

The framework assesses four types of intervention across eleven sectors using a simple Low-to-Extensive scale. Unfortunately, high steering is common.

The CCQ evaluates federal control along four structural vectors:

• Spending dependence: The extent to which a sector’s revenues and capital structure are anchored in federal appropriations, guarantees, subsidies, or explicit or implicit backstops.
• Operational regulatory intensity: How pervasively conventional federal rulemaking and guidance penetrate day-to-day business decisions, processes, compliance systems, and permissible conduct.
• Entry controls: The degree to which licensing, certification, allocation, chartering, or permitting determines who may participate in the market.
• Pricing/output constraints: The degree to which government shapes prices, reimbursement, production levels, product design, or service mandates.

The CCQ does not claim that markets have vanished, but it shows that they increasingly operate within politically constructed architectures. Economic coordination has become concentrated — but in Washington, not in corporations, which need far greater freedom to coordinate and rise above these artificial constraints.

We are not on a capitalist path. On our current trajectory, many future mega-scale projects will be government-dominated.

To read the entire article, click here. 

Wayne Crews is the Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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Foreign Billionaire Hansjörg Wyss Funneled Millions to Activist Groups Behind ‘No Kings’ Protests and Anti-Trump Lawsuits, Tax Filings Show

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As a Swiss national, Wyss cannot contribute directly to federal candidates but can use his deep-pocketed nonprofit to influence US politics

L: Hansjörg Wyss (Wikimedia Commons/The Wyss Foundation and Oceana) R: No Kings protest (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Thomas Catenacci 

March 4, 2026

Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss funneled millions of dollars to the left-wing organizations that are organizing the anti-Donald Trump "No Kings" protests and spearheading lawsuits targeting President Trump's immigration and energy policies, according to new tax filings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. They reveal the extent to which Wyss, a foreign national, is central to anti-Trump resistance efforts.

The Berger Action Fund, one of two nonprofits Wyss has used to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to left-wing causes, gave a total of $57.3 million to 11 activist groups between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025, the disclosures show. That includes $3 million to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), $2 million to the League of Conservation Voters, and $1 million to the Indivisible Project.

Indivisible is the main organizer of the No Kings movement—a series of nationwide anti-Trump protests that received significant mainstream media attention last summer—while the ACLU is part of the No Kings Coalition that is planning a new nationwide protest scheduled for late March. The League of Conservation Voters, meanwhile, was the lead plaintiff on the first environmental lawsuit filed against the Trump administration. It challenged Trump’s move to reopen tens of millions of acres of oceans for offshore oil leasing.

The disclosures put a renewed spotlight on Wyss’s involvement in U.S. politics, an issue that has raised ethics questions and attracted congressional investigations in recent years. The Swiss billionaire confirmed he is a foreign national in 2021, though he has denied breaking any laws governing the use of foreign money in American politics. Foreign nationals are barred from directly contributing to campaigns, but can give to politically active nonprofits. Wyss is positioned to do just that for years to come: His fund reported a single contribution of $176.7 million—almost certainly from Wyss himself—that increased its net assets to nearly $400 million.

"For far too long, foreign nationals like Hansjörg Wyss have been exploiting loopholes to funnel their foreign dark money into important policy fights—and this latest tax return shows he’s doubling down," said Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director of ethics watchdog group Americans for Public Trust.

The ACLU has used Wyss's millions to take more than 200 legal actionsagainst the Trump administration. The group reports that it has "successfully defeated, diluted, or delayed" Trump’s agenda in roughly 70 percent of its cases.

The group, for example, represents Minnesota citizens who accuse ICE agents of racially profiling them as well as a New York immigration group that opposes Trump’s fast-tracked deportations. It has also taken Trump to court over his lethal military strikes on drug-smuggling boats, his efforts to quash DEI programs, his executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote, and his actions protecting minors from medical gender transition procedures.

"This was never meant to be a single day of outrage," ACLU campaign director Ellen Flenniken said of the No Kings protests. "The ACLU will channel the energy and courage of [the protests] to continue to do everything in our power in the courts and our communities to defend and strengthen our democracy and push back against the Trump administration’s encroachment of our rights."

The League of Conservation Voters, for its part, calls Trump’s energy agenda "dirty and dangerous." It has opposed Trump's picks to lead agencies that oversee energy and environmental policies, and it frequently condemns Trump's actions to boost oil production and block Biden-era electric vehicle mandates. It spent $1.3 million lobbying against Trump’s agenda in 2025 alone.

And the Free Beacon reported last year that Indivisible was behind town hall protests held in Republican districts against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative. The group created a reimbursement program to cover activists’ expenses associated with such protests, including "chicken suits."

The Berger Action Fund’s largest contribution between 2024 and 2025 was a $27 million check to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a liberal dark money group that funds and sponsors left-wing nonprofits. While it is unknown where it directed Wyss’s money, the Sixteen Thirty Fund supported dozens of prominent anti-Trump groups in 2024, including by giving $11.8 million to the League of Conservation Voters.

"In 2024, the Berger Action Fund supported organizations working to address climate change, protect access to health care, promote economic opportunity, and bring increased transparency to our campaign finance system," a spokesman for the Berger Action Fund said in a statement. "Berger’s grants complied with laws and rules governing its charitable activities, and all grant funding was prohibited from being used to support or oppose political candidates or parties or other electoral activity."

"We unequivocally denounce all forms of hate and violence, and through our grantmaking, remain committed to supporting causes and initiatives that foster unity, strengthen communities, and help build a more peaceful future," the spokesman added.

The new filings come in the wake of a House Ways and Means Committee hearing that focused on how foreign actors use the U.S. tax-exempt sector to influence politics and "sow division, chaos, and hate in communities." Witnesses, including Sutherland, cited Wyss as a prime example, while Rep. Rudy Yakym (R., Ind.) remarked that Wyss has a "documented history of laundering money through American tax-exempt organizations to influence U.S. elections, weaken American energy independence, and advance far-left policy priorities."

"Year after year, Wyss consistently only funds left-wing groups, including those that sponsor protests and legal challenges against the U.S. government," Sutherland told the Free Beacon. "More action is needed to stop this foreign interference in U.S. policy and politics."

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A first since WWII

‘Quiet Death’: US submarine sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, in first since WWII

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-warship-sinks-after-apparent-submarine-attack-near-sri-lanka-101-said-missing/

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A Day of Reckoning For Hillary Clinton And The Rest Of The Cabal?

We’re finally getting hard proof, instead of reasonable supposition, about the scope of the Deep State’s acts of selling out America and attacking Donald Trump.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/03/a_day_of_reckoning_for_hillary_clinton_and_the_rest_of_the_cabal.html

Ron Wright | March 3, 2026

The puzzle pieces are falling into place faster than the Deep State ever imagined. The case against the Clintons as a crime family, which I laid out in 2019 when I discussed their Deep State RICO conspiracy, has just been validated by fresh evidence.

John Solomon nails it with the “Clinton Corruption Files.” Irrefutable documents reveal that Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel sent to Congress in late 2025 confirm a “massive bribery operation” through the Clinton Foundation—specifically, foreign interest donations in exchange for State Department favors during Hillary’s tenure as Secretary. Three FBI offices (New York, Washington, Little Rock) independently flagged pay-to-play, but Obama-era leadership obstructed the probes. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates (Obama’s No. 2 at DOJ) issued the kill order: “shut it down.” Whistleblowers reported buried evidence and blocked grand juries, while Russiagate was fast-tracked as the smokescreen.

This video sums up much of the new evidence:

Since Benghazi in 2012, it’s been one big mutual protection society, including the Clintons, Obama, the Bidens, and the Deep State. Everyone covers for everyone else to preserve power and keep laundered money flowing into their pockets. Benghazi exposed rogue operations—alleged arms flow from Libya to Syrian rebels (al-Qaeda-tied, becoming ISIS), ignored warnings, and four Americans murdered. The cover-up scrubbed talking points, blamed a video (Susan Rice’s Sunday-show spin), and stonewalled Congress to hide culpability. This disinformation smacks of illegal CIA domestic tradecraft, both propaganda and disinformation.

This Deep-State-led disinformation operation protected the Clinton Foundation’s pay-to-play, including Uranium One as the most egregious: Hillary’s State Department approved Rosatom’s control of ~20% of U.S. uranium production in 2010, amid millions in undisclosed Foundation donations from linked Russian interests and Bill’s $500K Kremlin-tied speech fee. This wasn’t mere influence—it was a strategic giveaway of national-security leverage over U.S. nuclear fuel supply, traded for personal gain and buried under probe shutdowns.

The raid on Benghazi gave me major heartburn, for it exposed the rogue Deep State in raw terms, with American lives lost amid alleged illicit arms ops. As Hillary defiantly testified in a Benghazi hearing, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

A trusted source who knew Ambassador Christopher Stevens and was devastated by his death during the Benghazi attack underscored for me the scope of betrayal. The mutual cover-up since then has been relentless to protect the Cabal, a cadre of domestic and foreign adversaries including the World Economic Forum; the globalists; the World Health Organization; the Marxist left; self-dealing and corrupt politicians including Biden, Hillary Clinton, Obama; the Deep State (DOJ, FBI, CIA, DNI, DHS and more); the leftist media complex; big pharma; big tech; and multinational corporations including enemies both foreign and domestic. It was what Victor Davis Hanson calls “Our French Revolution.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper weaponized the Clinton-funded Steele dossier for FISA warrants to spy on Trump, doctoring IC reports to divert from Hillary’s crimes. J6 was the entrapment pinnacle: a riot amplified into an “insurrection“ narrative to invoke the 14th Amendment’s Section 3 disqualification clause against Trump for 2024. Then, 51 intel officers (including Brennan and Clapper) suppressed Hunter’s laptop as “Russian disinformation”—pure election interference to favor Biden.

The media suppressed Trump’s J6 speech, urging peaceful and patriotic protest, to fuel the insurrection narrative, despite no federal criminal insurrection charge ever filed against him that might have triggered the 14th Amendment. Fortunately, the Supreme Court shut that down in Trump v. Anderson.

Mar-a-Lago was another desperate Deep State action: bogus classified documents/obstruction charges over a non-crime (presidential retention/declassification authority). The 2022 raid and Jack Smith’s 2023 indictment aimed to pin Trump, but Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the charges in July 2024, ruling that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional. She permanently blocked the release of Smith’s final report (Volume II) in February 2026, slamming it as a “brazen stratagem” that violated her order, grand jury secrecy, and caused “manifest injustice.”

Disclosures show the Biden administration coordinating with Smith’s actions, and some reporting ties the push to an attempt to recover problematic Obama-era documents, protecting the silent-coup origins of the Russia Hoax, which Obama allegedly directed to divert attention from Clinton scandals (e.g., here).

This “all in this together” dynamic—protecting prior acts, deflecting scrutiny—fits RICO perfectly: predicate acts of bribery, fraud, money laundering, obstruction, perjury, abuse of power, and seditious conspiracy or coup in a continuing criminal enterprise. This is important because RICO’s key tool is that there is no strict statute of limitations when overt acts (recent raids, suppressed reports, lawfare, depo deflections) keep the conspiracy alive, allowing indictments against all the actors long after individual crimes would be time-barred.

The alleged conspirators should be sweating bullets: Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Directors James Comey and Sally Yates (Obama’s No. 2 at DOJ), former DNI James Clapper, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Susan Rice, Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken, and DOJ/FBI embeds. Perchance, CIA tradecraft drove domestic TDS and suicidal empathy? Buck Sexton discusses tradecraft in his new book, Manufacturing Delusion.

Hillary’s February 26, 2026, Epstein deposition showed the same pattern of disinformation: she demanded a public hearing for “transparency,” but got closed-door scrutiny from knowledgeable attorneys rather than a performance circus. In her opening statement, she played victim of “partisan political theater,” denied knowledge of Epstein/Maxwell crimes (despite past Maxwell Foundation ties), and pivoted to demand Trump testify on his file mentions. She threw husband Bill under the bus and —uh-huh— used deflection amid a brief photo-leak pause. Slick Willie (Bill Clinton) continued with his rope-a-dope strategy (February 27, 2026). Sorry, Bill, this strategy of “I did not have sex with that woman” won’t work this time. There are receipts. As an aside, I agree with Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna that Epstein was likely an intelligence asset for one or more intelligence agencies.

These developments all build to Florida: Bondi and Patel’s team is quietly assembling a grand conspiracy case. Including, secretly requesting former CIA Director Brennan’s 2017–2018 Senate transcripts (beyond the perjury statute of limitations) as overt acts in the scheme. Brennan was confirmedas a “target” in this grand jury investigation in the Federal District of Florida. Benghazi’s Zubayar al-Bakoush arrest (February 6, 2026, charged with murder/terrorism by Bondi, Patel, and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro) signals new momentum towards a RICO indictment, with shelved files reopening.

The Clintons’ crime family didn’t dissolve, nor did the Bidens’. They evolved through the Cabal’s mutual cover-ups to protect power and pockets from discovery and prosecution. In Biden’s case, he was a useful puppet for the conspiracy. My investigative reporting since 2019 has held that RICO fits the elements of a hierarchy, predicate acts, and common purpose. Solomon’s files, recent arrests, Florida developments, and failed lawfare like J6—the non-insurrection, desperate Mar-a-Lago Raid, and many more criminal actions prove it. Fortunately, the 2024 election was too big to rig, and Trump won in a landslide.

We all knew it instinctively, but the facts were there in 2019, and now they’re undeniable. The truth will out — the criminal enterprise will crumble under the light of day. Without accountability to We the People— who are the sovereign — our country will continue its descent into a Third-World authoritarian state.

Ron Wright is a retired detective who served 35 years with Riverside P.D., Calif. Ron earned a B.A. in political science from Cal State University, Fullerton, and a Master of Administration from the University of California, Riverside. X @RonTcop

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