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The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Government Protected Monopolies Are the Only Ones to Fear – Ep 709

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Peter Schiff

Business, Politics, Business News, Investing, News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary




* Facebook anti-trust case thrown out of court.
* Breaking up monopolies protects the competitors, not the consumers.
* John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil was a perfect model of free market efficiency.
* Consumers are indirectly price gouged by labor unions.
* Labor unions destroyed jobs and wages for laborers.
* Government unions should be illegal.
* San Francisco buys $70,000 tents for the homeless.





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0:44.5

Well, on Monday, it was announced that a federal district court threw out the anti-trust

0:53.5

allegations of the federal government against Facebook.

0:58.0

The government was accusing Facebook of being a monopoly based on the fact that it acquired

1:05.9

Instagram and WhatsApp.

1:08.3

So now it was so dominant in social media and messaging to constitute a monopoly that the

1:15.3

government somehow needed to break up under anti-trust acts.

1:20.2

Now the district court threw it out, hopefully for good.

1:25.8

As a result of this ruling, shares of Facebook hit a new all-time record high.

1:33.0

In fact, Facebook has now joined a very select club of stocks that have market caps in excess

1:41.5

of $1 trillion.

1:44.4

They are Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet.

1:49.4

If you don't know, Alphabet is the name of the company that owns Google.

1:54.1

But those are now the companies with trillion dollar market caps.

1:58.8

Now you can add Facebook into the mix.

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