What Next TBD: Is Amazon a Monopoly?

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Amazon evolved from a place to get cheap used books to the “everything store”—one encompassing warehouses, logistics and shipping. But with the FTC now run by Lina Khan—who wrote the essay ‘Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” while at Yale Law School—a new contender for “antitrust trial of the century” has begun. Guest: Leah Nylen, antitrust reporter for Bloomberg If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now.
0:28.1	Only on Prime Video.
0:33.6	Leah, where have we reached you?
0:37.6	I am hiding on the fourth floor of the D.C. District Courthouse during a lunch break in USB Google.
0:48.2	Leah Nyland is a reporter for Bloomberg News who covers antitrust.
0:53.5	She's also kind of my lawsuit buddy, the person who helps explain what it means when the
0:58.9	government files a case against big tech, which has happened a lot lately, with Google and
1:04.9	Amazon and yet again, Amazon.
1:08.1	I mean, I feel like at this point I have you on antitrust speed dial.
1:15.3	Yeah. I don't mind, you know.
1:19.2	Leah was kind enough to take a break from one antitrust case to talk to us about another.
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