1/2: #FTC: #Amazon: Lina Kahn vs Jeff Bezos. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 20 October 2023
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1/2: #FTC: #Amazon: Lina Kahn vs Jeff Bezos. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.hoover.org/research/chasing-amazon-ftc-ignores-consumers
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS, I am the world, I am John Bachelor. |
| 0:38.0 | The Federal Trade Commission, Lena Khan bringing a very prominent case against Amazon. |
| 0:44.0 | Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos has involved in this, of course, personalities matter, |
| 0:49.0 | but the law is primary. |
| 0:51.0 | And I welcome Professor Richard Epstein, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, |
| 0:56.0 | teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago. |
| 0:59.0 | The University of Chicago is important here because Ms. Khan's suit against Amazon |
| 1:05.0 | involves much attention to the Chicago School and very famous names from the 20th century. |
| 1:12.0 | Robert Bork is one of them and we begin by asking the professor to explain this new suit |
| 1:18.0 | which I shorthand by saying Lena Khan was against Amazon before because his prices were too low. |
| 1:24.0 | Now Lena Khan's against Amazon because his prices are too high. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm lost. Professor, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:31.0 | Your essay and the defining ideas for the Hoover Institution, everybody can read it for themselves. |
| 1:36.0 | It's available online. |
| 1:38.0 | Mentions that Lena Khan has a particular opinion of the Chicago School. |
| 1:44.0 | What is that? What is inside this FTC case? Good evening to you. |
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