All right, there's a major development in one of the most important antitrust and monopoly cases that the government has brought over the last couple of decades that has been pending for quite some time.

And that is the case involving

ticket master and all of the ways that the government had alleged in which many people in the

American public complain. They abuse consumer rights. They eliminate competition. They manipulate

prices. They engage in all kind of unfair consumer practices that cost the ordinary American immense amounts of money as well as artists and the like.

This was seen for a long time as one of the hallmark antitrust cases to ensure American consumers are treated well by large corporations, something that Donald Trump and his movement basically promised through three campaigns to safeguard,

including through antitrust, cases of the kind brought by, brought against Ticketmaster.

And yet, with everyone's attention focused on the war in Iran yesterday, the Trump, G.OJ, announced that it was offering Ticketmaster

and had agreed with Ticketmaster to what looks like a very generous settlement that

avoids what had been an ongoing trial.

They had just a panel of the jury.

That trial will no longer take place depending on certain events.

And in order to figure this all out to understand what happened here to understand

its implications, both for the power of corporations to monopolize markets, as well as

for the American consumer to have some fighting chance when they're dealing with these

gigantic corporations.

I am talking today with the perfect person who's a friend of mine,

a friend of the show, always the person I have on when there's an antitrust issue, really has

become one of the most influential voices in this area, one of the clearest and most influential,

and he is Matt Stoller, who, among many other things, he's director of research at the American

Economics Liberty Project.

He's also the author of a tome, one of the definitive books on why antitrust and monopoly laws

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