Matt Levine
speaker
3,472 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Matt Levine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they're like, hire advisors, they get what they get, and if they're happy, they're happy.
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But they're not like expected to understand the the auction mechanics and like it's just a very different like they're speaking
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The sort of FEC complaint makes you think like, you know, like someone at a desk at like consumer products company is like submitting bids, right?
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But like if of course like there's hundreds of bids a second or whatever and it's all like completely automated.
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And like and like it's not like you set your bidding policy.
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It's like, you know, like you have some tool that you like move a slide or you know, no one
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Right.
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And so like I um
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Very sympathetic to Amazon's view of things.
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I think it's accurate, but it is like it is like a strange defense to be like a black box.
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rules.
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Like that's the thing.
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Like in financial markets, there's like how the
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stock market matches buy and sell orders is like
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set with clear rules and like the rules are approved by the SEC and it's a big deal.
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Amazon just has its own marketplace.
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And the rule that the FTC is trying to enforce is like you can't disclose things inaccurately, right?
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Right.
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And like Amazon says, look, we do disclose it accurately.
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But like, yeah, do we send simplified materials to people to help them grasp the intuition of how a second price auction works?
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