What's Eating the Economy?
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The American economy has gotten more consolidated and more reliant on algorithms—while also, according to most people, getting more expensive, slower, and worse. Is there some causality in this correlation?
Guest: Matt Stoller, Research Director for the American Economic Liberties Project and author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.
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