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Episode 32: Media Mergers, Prices and Inflation, the War in Iraq (before it started), that Picture of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

from Plato's Cave: Economic and Media Analysis in a Dark Time · host Professors Bill Waller and Linda Robertson

Linda takes a look at the turmoil at CBS, theParamount/Skydance takeover of Warner Discovery, and Nexstar’s merger withTegna;  Bill explains wholesale pricesand the implications for inflation, and the broader implications of the Supreme Court’s decision that Trump’s tariffs are illegal; we both discuss the coming war with Iraq and  how Phillip Noble got that iconic photo of the arrest of the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

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