PREVIEW: #USSTEEL: #APPLE: #DOJ: #FTC: In conversation with Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution re the Biden Administration refusing to permit the Nippon Steel bid for US Steel, and the Biden Administration charging Apple as a monopoly to be correct
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:28.0 | This is John Batche, conversation with Professor Richard Epstein |
| 0:32.0 | of the Hoover Institution, a Senior |
| 0:34.1 | Fellow. He teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago. The Biden administration |
| 0:39.4 | moving to block the offer by Nippon Steel for U.S. Steel for $14.1 billion on the basis of it being a national security risk, |
| 0:50.0 | and also to move against Apple, saying that it is made Google a victim of its superior |
| 0:56.8 | monopoly position with the iPhone. |
| 0:59.6 | Richard is not pleased with either decision by the my administration. |
| 1:04.1 | These are different parts of the administration, the Federal Trade Commission, |
| 1:08.6 | the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the White House, but it all adds up to no, no, and no. |
| 1:16.3 | Here's Richard Epstein on what we know so far. |
| 1:20.5 | This is an antitrust department which has had a frontal lobotomy associated with its operation. |
| 1:25.6 | Lena Khan is one of the most ignorant people ever to sit in that position. |
| 1:29.8 | And she is backed up by the same kinds of behaviors that are taking place inside the |
| 1:33.8 | Justice Department of Mr. Canton. |
| 1:36.0 | It is all a farce in the worst possible sense of the world and what they're trying to do and |
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