The second Spirit Airlines bankruptcy highlights why mergers are always better than bankruptcies and bailouts

Spirit Airlines is filing for bankruptcy again after a proposed merger with JetBlue was blocked. John Berlau, CEI Director of Financial Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joins the show to explain why mergers are always better than bankruptcies and bailouts.

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