Matt Parker

“Data about your thoughts goes into a database owned by Google, what you buy into Amazon or Walmart, and what you owe into Experian or Equifax. You live in a world structured by concentrated corporate power.”
― Matt Stoller, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can’t remember the second.”
― Matt Stoller, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

“Virtually the entire commercial order of late-nineteenth-century America was oriented around small and midsized proprietorships, from independent farmers to drugmakers, pharmacists, printers, stationers, booksellers, manufacturers, specialty producers of brand-name foodstuffs, grocers, and distillers.”
― Matt Stoller, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

“In 1860, an oligarchy of eight thousand men ruled over millions of enslaved blacks, and poor whites, in the South.22 The wealthiest men in the country were cotton kings; half the millionaires in 1850 lived in one town in Mississippi.23 Slave cotton was at the center of a global financial and trading system, one stretching from Mississippi to Wall Street to the looms in Manchester across the sea.”
― Matt Stoller, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy