This is on point. I'm Magna Chocro-Bardi and welcome to the fifth and final

installment of our special week-long series More than Money, the cost of

monopolies in America. All this week we've been looking at the view ascendant

now among key members of the Biden administration that corporate monopolies

don't just harm competition and consumers, they harm democracy. To understand

just how powerfully these reformers believe it's time to revamp antitrust

regulation, let's pick up right where we left off yesterday with the last words

of the show uttered by Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute.

Well what will allow us to recapture our foundational liberties is to empower

every single citizen, United States to understand what is the threat which is

that when you allow concentration of power over communications, school,

Facebook, a concentration of power over the basic things of life, you yourself

will loot, you know, what is the threat of your democracy, your liberty, the

community in which you live, and if you look over here into this toolbox, what

you see is a set of tools that Americans created over the course of 200 years,

two centuries to solve every one of these problems. Lynn's evocation of history

is justified. In episode three of this series we talked about the successes of

the trust-busting progressive era. However, anytime I hear anyone advocate a set of

solutions quote to solve every one of these problems, it also sounds more than a

little bit like fairy dust. So today we're asking have antitrust reformers

like Barry Lynn, like FTC chair Lena Conn, like Jonathan Cantor, head of the

DOJ's antitrust division, have they identified the right problem but the wrong

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