This is the Tom Hartman Program.

So, as a time to break up everything big?

On the line with us is Sarah Miller, the Executive Director of the American Economic Liberties

Project and the co-chair of Freedom from Facebook, Economic Liberties. US is the website.

Sarah Miller D.C. is her Twitter handle, S-A-R-A-H.

Sarah, welcome to the program.

Tell us about the Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act.

Sure, Tom, thanks for having me.

It's great to be with you.

So basically what's happening right now in our economy, whether we like it or not, is this

pandemic is allowing large corporations and kind of

predatory financial institutions to roll up power to buy distressed assets to merge, to kind of bring even more kind of economic and political power

to bear on the economy and society.

And so what this act would do is essentially just say

we're going to put a timeout on mergers at this point in time when so many

businesses are under a pandemic related distress. It's a really common sense merger,

common sense bill. It has provisions to kind of mitigate against sort of any kind of

of problematic aspects of it and it will help businesses that should be

thriving in normal times continue to thrive and the communities that they support to do so as well.

I think most Americans don't realize what kind of a crisis that we are actually living through as a result of bigness

here in the United States, these giant monopolies.

We pay more for airfare than most countries in the world.

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