The post shown below by Tampa Free Press about the suit by “hundreds of local papers” suing Facebook and Google for their alleged advertising monopoly should be of keen interest to all manufactured housing industry professionals and affordable housing advocates. Recall that in 2015, Doug Ryan with what today is known as Prosperity Now, publicly accused Clayton Homes of engaging in a monopoly. Ryan cited the Manufactured Housing Institute as giving Clayton Homes cover. Democratic lawmakers that included Maxine Waters (CA-D) weighed in similarly claiming a “near monopoly” by Clayton. They asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Justice (DoJ) to weigh in. As antitrust and concerns over monopolization increases in the U.S. and abroad, it would be journalistic malpractice to ignore that possibility occurring in manufactured housing. While some in our industry’s trade may commit such malpractice, MHProNews will continue to press the issue in reports, fact-checks, analysis and commentary such as this.

Per left-leaning Wikipedia, “The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. It was passed by Congress and is named for Senator John Sherman, its principal author.”

On this date, 2.16.2022, a search for phrase that follows – hundreds of newspapers suing Google and Facebook ad monopoly – reveals the following top five results in this sequence.

 

Newspaper Co. Sues Google, Facebook Over Ad Monopoly

https://www.law360.com › articles › newspaper-co-sues-g…

Nov 10, 2021 — A Georgia local newspaper company has sued Google and Facebook in federal court, claiming the tech giants’ monopolistic behavior and control …

Suburban Newspaper Publisher Sues Google, Facebook Over …

https://www.law.com › dailyreportonline › 2021/11/15 › s…

Nov 15, 2021 — Suburban Newspaper Publisher Sues Google, Facebook Over Ad Market Monopoly Claims. “Freedom of the press is not at stake; the press itself …

Scoop: Over 200 papers quietly sue Big Tech – Axios

https://www.axios.com › Economy & Business › Media

Dec 7, 2021 — Newspapers all over the country have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook for the past year, alleging the two …

Hundreds Of Local Papers Are Suing Facebook And Google …

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com › 2021/12/07 › hu…

Dec 7, 2021 — … local newspapers across the country are suing Google and Facebook, alleging that the tech giants hold a monopoly in digital advertising.

Over 200 newspapers are suing Facebook and Google for …

https://nypost.com › 2021/12/08 › over-200-newspaper…

Dec 8, 2021 — More than 200 newspapers are suing Facebook and Google, alleging that the tech titans have unfairly manipulated the advertising market, …

Screen captures of the above and what Brian Burns at the Tampa Free Press posted on LinkedIn.

Here is how the TampaFreePress.com reported it.

Hundreds Of Local Papers Are Suing Facebook And Google For Alleged Ad Monopolies

Daily Caller News Foundation December 7, 2021

Ailan Evans

Small-town and local newspapers across the country are suing Google and Facebook, alleging that the tech giants hold a monopoly in digital advertising.

Over two hundred publications have sued the tech companies this year, according to a review by Axios, alleging the dominance of Facebook and Google in digital advertising markets have cut into their revenue.

The lawsuits are led by Doug Reynolds, the managing partner of HD Media, which owns several newspapers in West Virginia, who began filing complaints with a coalition of antitrust lawyers from Farrell and Fuller, Fitzsimmons Law Firm, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, and Herman Jones LLP, Axios reported.

Reynolds first sued Google and Facebook in January, alleging that the tech giants’ monopolies were contributing to the death of the newspaper industry, The Wall Street Journal reported.

“These companies are more powerful than Standard Oil in its heyday, so no one wants to be the first to take them on,” Reynolds told the WSJ at the time. “We felt the political and legal climate have moved in our favor and are ready to go ahead.”

The complaint alleged that Google and Facebook “conspired” to rig bids for digital advertising contracts in a secret deal known as “Jedi Blue,” thereby cementing their monopoly power in the ad market. The existence of the deal was first alleged in an antitrust complaint filed by several state attorneys general led by Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Reynolds and his coalition of attorneys have agreed to represent other newspapers filing similar antitrust lawsuits.

The goal of the complaints is to “establish a new system going forward in which newspapers aren’t just competitive again, but can thrive,” Clayton Fitzsimmons, one of the lawyers representing the papers, told Axios. ##

 

Additional Information, More MHProNews Analysis and Clayton/MHI Connected Commentary

To grasp the implications of Facebook-Google antitrust effort for the manufactured housing industry, one should first understand the risks involved.

On this date, the RushingGuice.com law firm said, with emphasis in the original: “Criminal enforcement of the Sherman Act is the responsibility of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). For offenses committed on or after June 22, 2004, the maximum corporate fine is $100 million, the maximum individual fine is $1 million and the maximum jail term is 10 years.”

Glenn Greenwald is an attorney turned award winning independent journalist. His message to his Substack platform’s subscribers this morning described the “grueling and demanding work of writing the in-depth reporting and analysis that we hope and believe characterizes this page.” Quite so. For anyone who has attempted to produce meaningful reports that matter for manufactured housing professionals, homeowners, and consumers and others 7 days a week, it won’t take long to grasp Greenwald’s point. He mentioned “with so much mischief going on: from Canada’s invocation of shockingly authoritarian powers to crush the trucker’s movement, to the avalanche of multi-pronged propaganda from many directions over Ukraine.” MHProNews has cited CNN and Newsmax on the Ukraine matter and has reported on the truckers too. Those reading this daily business news report on MHProNews can stay surprisingly informed from both ends of the political/media spectrum.

As noted above, Doug Ryan, Representative Maxine Waters and her colleagues, and even bobbing-and-weaving back and forth in, out, and back into the MHI camp blogger George Allen have alleged monopolization in manufactured housing.

Oddly, Allen – listed as a contributing editor for MHInsider – are among those who haven’t raised this issue with the necessary detail, evidence and implications recently, if ever. To get such insights in recent years within the confines of MHVille, one must turn to MHProNews/MHLivingNews.

The Tampa Free Press reported on that issue. Perhaps they won’t be too concerned to make factual and commonsense op-eds on manufactured housing related topics? Oh, they already have.

Op-Ed: “State of Emergency” – Democrats, Gov. DeSantis And Competing Affordable Housing Crisis Plans And Solutions Examined

As teasers, a new document involving MHI has been provided by a tipster. A wrinkle in manufactured housing connected legal issues have also been provided to MHProNews.

Keep in mind that MHProNews has two sources who told MHProNews that during the Trump Administration, antitrust attorneys in the Department of Justice discussed possible antitrust action that included MHI members, including Clayton Homes. Will the Biden Administration pick that ball up and run with it?

Stay tuned for what’s ahead here, through mainstream news releases, and perhaps more of interest to some in the manufactured housing industry and beyond to come at Tampa Free Press too.

 

Next up is our daily business news recap of yesterday evening’s market report, related left-right headlines, and manufactured housing connected equities.

The Business Daily Manufactured Home Industry Connected Stock Market Updates.  Plus, Market Moving Left (CNN) – Right (Newsmax) Headlines Snapshot. While the layout of this daily business report has been evolving over time, several elements of the basic concepts used previously are still the same. For instance. The headlines that follow below can be reviewed at a glance to save time while providing insights across the left-right media divide. Additionally, those headlines often provide clues as to possible ‘market-moving’ news items.

 

Market Indicator Closing Summaries – Yahoo Finance Closing Tickers on MHProNews…

Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – from the evening of 2.15.2022

• It’s not just old phones
• An Apple’s iPhone XR is shown before the start of official sales in Russia in October 2018.
• The 3G shutdown will affect lots of everyday devices you probably own
• Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway perfectly timed an out-of-left-field investment
• Microsoft is on a buying binge. Here’s what it could buy next
• Dow jumps more than 400 points after Russia says it’s withdrawing some troops
• Is the mighty US consumer faltering?
• Avocados could become very hard to find. Here’s why
• Elon Musk has donated $5.7 billion in Tesla shares to charity
• Major banks pledging net zero are pouring money into the dirtiest fossil fuel
• Why you can’t have legs in virtual reality (yet)
• There wasn’t a single Tesla ad during the Super Bowl. Here’s why
• Why your Wordle answers may be different than your friends’ starting today
• Hollywood actor sentenced to 20 years for multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme
• Jury finds that Sarah Palin failed to prove her defamation case against the New York Times
• A gas pump at a Shell station on November 22, 2021 in Miami, Florida.
• Exclusive: Russia-Ukraine crisis could drive inflation to a historic 10%
• Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford (9) passes against the Cincinnati Bengals during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl 56 football game Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
• Super Bowl ratings surprise: 112 million watched
• The northernmost Tim Hortons in the world inside a supermarket in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, Canada, on Nov. 14, 2021.
• Justin Bieber almost single-handedly turned around Tim Hortons
• DEALS
• KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – JANUARY 30: Quarterback Joe Burrow #9 of the Cincinnati Bengals rolls out to pass against the Kansas City Chiefs during the second half of the AFC Championship Game at Arrowhead Stadium on January 30, 2022 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images)
• Super Bowl commercials cost $7 million. It’s still a good deal
• Crown Resorts backs $6.3 billion Blackstone bid
• Cisco makes $20 billion-plus offer for Splunk
• DHL drops $15 million on Boston Dynamics bots
• Lockheed Martin terminates $4.4 billion deal to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne
• UKRAINE
• Ukrainian Military Forces servicemen of the 92nd mechanized brigade use tanks, self-propelled guns and other armored vehicles to conduct live-fire exercises near the town of Chuguev, in the Kharkiv region, on February 10, 2022. – Russia's deployment for a military exercise in Belarus and on the borders of Ukraine marks a "dangerous moment" for European security, NATO's chief said on February 10, 2022. (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)
• Threat of Russian invasion grips US, Europe markets and Ukraine economy
• What is Nord Stream 2 and can Biden kill it?
• UK threatens to hit Russian oligarchs with sanctions
• Tensions with Russia worry former US astronauts
• Why China won’t put its economy on the line to rescue Putin

 

Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax – evening of 2.15.2022

• Jury Rules Against Palin in NY Times Libel Suit
• Hillary Clinton Silent When Asked About Spying Accusations
• Ukraine in Crisis
• Biden Says Russian Attack on Ukraine Still Possible
• Ukraine Faces Cyberattack as West Demands Proof of Russian Pullback
• Russia Says Some Troops Return to Base, Ukraine Reacts Cautiously
• Cyberattack Hits Ukrainian Government Sites, Major Banks
• Kremlin Says US Talk of Imminent Ukraine Invasion Is Baseless Hysteria
• US Defense Secretary Heads to Europe for NATO Talks, Visit Troops
• Kremlin Still Talks Diplomatic Path
• Russian TV Propaganda Sets Up Pretext for Invasion
• More Ukraine in Crisis
• Newsmax TV
• Dan Bishop: GOP Will Win House, Investigate Hillary Clinton
• T. McFarland: US Energy Production Could Stop Russia’s Actions
• Wittman: Russia ‘Highly Likely’ to Invade Ukraine | video
• Babin: Biden Cares More for Ukraine Border Than America’s | video
• Ex-Surgeon General: COVID Focus on ‘Smart Decisions’ | video
• Rudy Giuliani: Pelosi Playing Politics With Denials on Police Funding | video
• Rosendale: US Must Focus on ‘Invasion’ on Its Southern Border | video

 

• More Newsmax TV
• Newsfront
• Jury Rules Against Sarah Palin in NY Times Case
• A U.S. federal jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge said he would dismiss the case regardless of the verdict…. [Full Story]
• Wall Street Rises Sharply, as Geopolitical Worries Ease
• Wall Street ended sharply higher on Tuesday, as signs of [Full Story]
• Biden Says Russian Attack on Ukraine Still Possible
• President Joe Biden urged Russia to step back from the brink of war [Full Story]
• Rick Scott: Dems’ ‘Failed Policies’ Result in High Inflation
• Rick Scott, R-Fla., says the latest inflation figures are the [Full Story]
• Companies Get Back to Business as Usual as COVID Wanes
• For the first time in two years for many people, the American [Full Story]
• Related
• Oxford Scientists to Study Effects of COVID Variants, Shots in Pregnancy
• New York City Confirms 1,430 Workers Fired Over Vaccine Mandate
• The First Woman Has Been Cured of HIV Using New Transplant Method
• An American research team reported that it has potentially cured a [Full Story]
• Liberal Politicians, Celebrities Show ‘Repugnant’ Mask Hypocrisy at Super Bowl
• Two weeks after being ridiculed for saying he’d held his breath to [Full Story] | Platinum Article
• Anthony Weiner Dodges When Asked If Scandals Changed Him
• Former New York congressman Anthony Weiner this week appeared to [Full Story]
• Hillary Clinton Silent When Asked About Spying Accusations
• Hillary Clinton on Tuesday ignored questions about whether her [Full Story]
• Trafalgar Poll: Dr. Oz Takes Big Lead in Pa. Race
• Roger Marshall: Fauci Emails Reveal Suppression of COVID Lab Theory
• Emails between Dr. Anthony Fauci and other scientists reveal that [Full Story]
• Husband of Shot Cinematographer Names Alec Baldwin in Wrongful Death Suit
• The husband of a woman killed during filming of the Western movie [Full Story]
• Rubio: Trump’s Handling of Records ‘Not a Crime’
• Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is dismissing concerns about former [Full Story]
• Senate Confirms Biden’s FDA Nominee Califf
• The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Dr. Robert Califf as U.S. [Full Story]
• Rice Latest Democrat Not Running for Reelection
• Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., announced that she will not run for [Full Story]
• Biden Campaign Hired Cybersecurity Researcher Neustar
• President Joe Biden’s campaign paid almost $20,000 to Neustar [Full Story]
• Wholesale Inflation Surges 9.7% Over Last Year
• Wholesale inflation in the United States surged again last month, [Full Story]
• Related
• Mitch McConnell to Meet With Fed’s Powell on Inflation
• AP: Ex-MLB Star A-Rod in Group Buying Trump’s Washington Hotel
• Former New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, once called va [Full Story]
• Prince Andrew Settles With Sex Abuse Accuser Virginia Giuffre
• Britain’s Prince Andrew has reached a settlement with Virginia [Full Story]
• Trump: US Disrespected Under Biden
• Former President Donald Trump said the United States under President [Full Story]
• Ottawa’s police chief resigned Tuesday amid criticism of his inaction [Full Story]
• Texas elections officials have returned thousands of mail-in votes [Full Story]
• Sandy Hook Families Agree to Settlement With Gun Maker
• The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School [Full Story]
• Trump: ‘RINO’ Gov. Ducey Wouldn’t Win GOP Senatorial Primary
• Former President Donald Trump on Monday warned that his strongest [Full Story]
• Biden, Democrats Eye Suspension of 18-Cent Federal Gas Tax: Report
• The Biden White House and Democrat congressional leaders are weighing [Full Story]
• Lindsey Graham: Iran Poses Bigger Threat Than Russia, China
• Theocratic Iran, not Russia nor China, poses the most serious threat [Full Story]
• Poll: 61% of Florida Independents Have Favorable Opinion of DeSantis
• A total of 61% of independent voters in Florida give Gov. Ron [Full Story]
• Texas Sues Meta’s Facebook Over Facial-Recognition Practices
• The Texas attorney general’s office sued Meta’s Facebook, alleging [Full Story]
• Hawley Embraces Jan. 6 ‘Fist Pump’ Photo, Sells Merchandise
• The team of Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has turned a controversial photo [Full Story]
• Waukesha Massacre Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to 6 Homicide Counts, 71 Others
• As his trial begins, the man who allegedly mowed through a Christmas [Full Story]
• Super Bowl Betting at Nevada Sportsbooks Sets Record
• The total amount of bets placed in Nevada sportsbooks on this year’s [Full Story]
• New Toenail Clippers Are a Must-have For Seniors in Florida
• Clipperpro
• More Newsfront
• Finance
• Fast Food Chains Scrap Value Menus, in Face of Inflation
• The record inflation seen under President Joe Biden has affected everything from cars to food at supermarkets, and now, another industry is feeling the pinch. Fast food chains including Domino’s and Burger King are changing or reducing their value menus…. [Full Story]
• Typo Sends Drivers in Florida to Trump 2024 Merch Website
• More Data on Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors Leaked
• Regulators Won’t Let Boeing Certify New 787 Jets for Flight
• Burger King Pulls Whopper off Discount Menu, Raises Prices a 2nd Time
• More Finance
• Health
• Vaccinated About Half as Likely to Develop Long COVID as Unvaccinated: Study
• Long COVID is less likely to affect vaccinated people than unvaccinated people, a new review of 15 studies by the UK Health Security Agency released on Tuesday has concluded. UKHSA said the people who received two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech , AstraZeneca or Moderna vaccine, or…… [Full Story]
• Performing Acts of Kindness Boosts Emotional and Physical Health
• Study: COVID Vaccination During Pregnancy Helps Protect Babies After Birth
• Experimental Inhaled COVID Vaccine May Prove More Potent at Lower Dose
• Oxford Scientists to Study Effects of COVID Variants, Shots in Pregnancy

MHProNews has pioneered in our profession several reporting elements that keep our regular and attentive readers as arguably the best informed in the manufactured housing industry. Among the items shared after ‘every business day’ (when markets are open) is our left-right headline recap summary. At a glance in two to three minutes, key ‘market moving’ news items are covered from left-of-center CNN Business and right-of-center Newsmax. “We Provide, You Decide.” Additionally, MHProNews provides expert commentary and analysis on the issues that others can’t or won’t cover that help explain why manufactured housing has been underperforming during the Berkshire era while an affordable housing crisis and hundreds of thousands of homeless in America rages on. These are “Industry News, Tips, and Views Pros Can Use” ^© features and others made and kept us the runaway #1 in manufactured housing trade publisher for a dozen years and counting. 

 

Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Equities Closing Tickers

Some of these firms invest in manufactured housing, or are otherwise connected, but may do other forms of investing or business activities too.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender
                          • NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
                          • NOTE: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of  the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm.  Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.

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