Hi! Webworm is me, David Farrier, worming my way into weird corners of the internet and beyond! I’m a journalist and documentary maker who, like anyone, likes a good story.
Based in New Zealand, I tend to tell stranger stories, I suppose.
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Matt Stoller is a Fellow at the Open Markets Institute and the author the forthcoming Simon and Schuster book Goliath: The Hundred-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.Previously, I was a Senior Policy Advisor and Budget Analyst…