Movin’ right along
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Marketplace
4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Since 1970, Amtrak has run U.S. passenger rail service and — per a formal agreement with private railroad companies — those passenger trains get preference over cargo carriers on the tracks. But now, the Department of Justice says freight companies are breaking the rules. Also in this episode, more moving: New pipelines carry excess natural gas out of Permian Basin fields, programs that help families move into affordable housing assist with repairs too, and farmers pressure Congress to budge on the delayed farm bill.
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| 0:23.0 | In which the theme of the program is how things move around in this global economy. |
| 0:28.0 | People and data, freight and fuel. |
| 0:32.0 | From American public media, this is marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Riznell. It is Tuesday, |
| 0:47.0 | today, the 10th of September. Good as always to have you along everybody. |
| 0:50.0 | At the risk of understating things quite a bit, this has not been a great day for American |
| 0:56.5 | tech companies doing business in Europe. |
| 0:59.1 | The European Union's top court said this morning that Apple owes Ireland better than $14 billion in |
| 1:05.0 | back taxes and in a separate decision the European Court of Justice dispensed with |
| 1:09.9 | Google's appeal of a fine it has been fighting for years and it comes that Google |
| 1:14.3 | ruling does as the company has been fending off a number of antitrust challenges |
| 1:18.6 | here as well. Marketplace is Stephanie Hughes starts us off. |
| 1:22.0 | This fine comes to about $2.7 billion, which might not seem like that much in Google dollars, but it's only one part of how much this all costs. |
| 1:31.0 | From lawyers to PR to everything else, it's very expensive. |
| 1:36.1 | Rebecca Ha-Alensworth is a professor of antitrust law at Vanderbilt, and she says it's not |
| 1:41.1 | just Google that will be affected by this decision. |
| 1:43.6 | If it's expensive and bad for Google that means other companies who are looking at it |
| 1:47.1 | are trying not to be the next Google and therefore acting in ways that are less |
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