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Isn’t that a similar argument against AI?

End consolidation. Go back to pre-1980s antitrust policy. Encourage competition and bust the trusts.

That sounds toxic.

Single family used to act as a check on greed. Careless institutional investment was limited to multi family. They couldn’t push multi family rents beyond single family. Once insti…

It’s stock manipulation.

It’s good for the fossil fuel industry and that’s why it was done.

Cats doing tricks has a limited budget.

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Musicians used to not let their songs be used in commercials.

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Or they’re aiding it.

Can’t you just have it login?

And, historically, CEOs only were the CEO of one company and had one job.

Google was literally declared a monopoly by a court recently. Facebook and Apple both are oligopolies or monopolies in certain market segments. Apple has a monopoly on app store an…

But those extra dollars aren’t with consumers. Otherwise, yes. That’s where the money supply causes inflation argument falls apart — at least for this case.

More like the shenanigans aren’t new and can move up and down. And there’s coordination between the segments in the chain. How is it that farmers are making less than ever before b…

Doubtful. Most deals aren’t financed with debt. There are many but off the top of my head Kroger buying Safeway. Visa buying Plaid. Nvidia buying Arm. Didn't they block a cell phon…

Does Israel make ChatGPT?

Because there is collusion in the supply chain as well. The grocery stores won’t place your product, the distributors won’t distribute it or will charge you more, the farmers will …

Margins aren’t an objective measurement. Margins are easy to manipulate through shell companies and other costs. Just look at PBMs. They all supposedly have small margins. However,…

Many mergers were squashed. The M&A market shrank considerably. There’s only so much they can do as far as bringing and prosecuting cases in four years.

Lina Khan did a ton of anti-trust but corporations seem to have realized Trump is transactional/pay to play. One can hope the strong antitrust continues but there’s little reason f…

For money supply to be inflationary it has to increase demand or reduce supply for a given product. It sounds neat but there’s little evidence of that occurring on more than a temp…

The government does not make things cheaper, competition does. The government’s role is to protect competition. Otherwise companies will collude not to compete.

Google. Microsoft. Facebook. If it weren’t for antitrust, there’d be a lot fewer cell phone companies or airlines. I mean, it’s harder to name an industry where there hasn’t been c…