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How the DOJ plans to break up Google and sell Chrome

For two decades, Google Search has been unstoppable. Invincible. So thoroughly dominant that would-be competitors often couldn’t even get funding, because investors didn’t see the point in trying. But earlier this year, a judge declared that Google’s power, and the way the company wields it, was an illegal monopoly. And so now the US Department of Justice has to figure …

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The debt brake rule that helped collapse Germany’s government

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a session on November 13, 2024 at the Bundestag. John Macdougall | Afp | Getty Images When the German government collapsed earlier this month, clashes within the former ruling coalition about economic and budget policy were widely cited as a key factor — with the country’s debt brake playing a central role. Former Finance Minister …

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