What does it take to fix Main Street?
Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In 2010, “Marketplace Morning Report” host David Brancaccio featured his hometown in a documentary about better ideas for the economy. It opened the film as an example of a place sorely needing solutions. A dozen years later, Waterville, Maine is experiencing the benefits of reinvestment. We’ll talk about how. Plus, Google’s antitrust trial begins today.
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| 0:00.0 | What does it take to fix Main Street? |
| 0:03.9 | And David Bruncacci, first in a case, |
| 0:05.5 | harkening back to the great Microsoft internet browser |
| 0:08.8 | fight of the 1990s. |
| 0:10.4 | Alphabet Google is in federal court today |
| 0:12.6 | for the start of a big anti-trust trial. |
| 0:15.1 | The government alleges Google's using its position |
| 0:17.4 | to stifle competition for online searches. |
| 0:20.8 | The Justice Department says Google pays billions of dollars |
| 0:23.7 | a year to manufacturers of devices like smartphones |
| 0:27.0 | to make it the default browser. |
| 0:29.0 | Justice lawyers also point out that Google requires |
| 0:31.9 | its search engine be bundled into its Android software. |
| 0:35.4 | The government says that gives Google an unfair advantage. |
| 0:38.6 | Google says people use it because, quote, they choose to. |
| 0:41.8 | And Justice filed a second case against Google |
| 0:44.4 | earlier this year, accusing it of dominating online advertising. |
| 0:48.8 | Groups of state attorneys general are also suing Google. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm Nancy Marshall-Venser from Marketplace. |
| 0:54.9 | Music |
| 1:20.4 | Coming out of the great financial crisis, |
| 1:22.4 | I did a documentary exploring better ideas for the economy. |
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