Sohrab Ahmari
speaker
699 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 10 Aug
Sohrab Ahmari’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Businesses colluding to buy each other and ultimately so that consumers only have one choice to go to, whether that's in technology or ticket prices with Ticketmaster and the like.
That's not free market capitalism.
And antitrust is a way to correct for that.
Unfortunately, the Bondi DOJ was pretty actually bad in that regard.
Gail Slater, the person who was, again, put in charge of the antitrust unit, basically had all her power taken away.
Firms that had reached basically settlements with the Department of Justice were able to...
sidestep her so that the normal scrutiny that goes into how a settlement was reached, this happened, for example, with the merger between two companies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks that provide like Wi-Fi and networking services to big stadiums, hospitals and things like that.
They
Basically, they reached a settlement with the DOJ, but one that where it was done behind in a kind of behind closed doors, literally over cocktails, which raises serious legal questions.
And when Gail Slater's team objected to this, one of her deputies was fired and then eventually she herself was fired as well.
So it's one of those instances where, you know, what looks like populism is
on the campaign trail.
And then under Bondi, it cashed out as kind of crony capitalism.
So that was an area of disappointment.
I have no idea whoever comes next will do anything different.
Gail Slater is now gone.
And she was seen as like one of the real populist anchors of this administration.
I don't think Bondi did right by her.
Yeah, look, there's a sort of great deal of Kremlin ology that goes on with any Trump administration.
I'm trying to think and I want to be fair about this, but it is remarkable how messy these Trump administrations are.
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