Our Anti-Monopoly Moment with Zachary Carter

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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We've suddenly gone from a world with little antitrust enforcement to one in which strong anti-monopoly action has broad bipartisan support. How did this happen? Today senior reporter at Huffington Post Zachary Carter is on the show to help answer this question. You can check out his book at factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
0:07.0	I don't know the way.
0:10.0	I don't know what to think.
0:13.0	I don't know what to say.
0:16.0	Yeah, the guts are mine.
0:19.0	Yeah, the guts are mine.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Conover.
0:31.0	We are back with you today with another brand new episode in which I talk to an amazing expert
0:36.0	about all the incredible things they know that I probably don't know and that you probably
0:40.0	don't know so that all of our minds can get blown together.
0:43.0	We're going to have a great time.
0:45.0	Now, on this show before, we have talked about monopoly capitalism and antitrust in America
0:51.0	or more precisely the lack of antitrust enforcement of any kind in recent decades.
0:57.0	It's a problem.
0:58.0	It's a problem that we have let companies get larger and larger by each other, merge, consolidate
1:04.0	into monopolies to the point where a couple of corporate megaliths were talking Amazon,
1:09.0	Disney, and alphabet that's Google and YouTube's parent company have massive undue influence
1:15.0	over American life.
1:16.0	If you're a consumer or a worker, you have felt the impact of this.
1:20.0	Whether you know it or not.
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