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The Capitol Forum Podcast — 143 episodes

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1

AI Needs to Nearly Triple Productivity to Pay Off (Second Request)

2

Paramount's Long Odyssey to Own Warner Bros. (TCF Investigates)

3

Alternative Protein vs Big Meat (Second Request)

4

How Private Equity Could Create a New Financial Crisis (Second Request)

5

The Emerging Antitrust Risks in Edge Computing (Second Request)

6

Inside Uber's AI Strategy to Inflate Your Fare (Second Request)

7

How Credit Card Swipe Fees Became Multibillion Dollar Tolls (Second Request)

8

Is the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger in Real Trouble? (Second Request)

9

Can an AI Chatbot Be Responsible for Murder? (Second Request)

10

The Surveillance Economy, Part Two (TCF Investigates)

11

The Surveillance Economy, Part One (TCF Investigates)

12

What Happens If the AI Bubble Bursts? (Second Request)

13

The Future of Sports Streaming (Second Request)

14

Who Runs the Skies? (Second Request)

15

The Secret History of Forced Arbitration (Second Request)

16

The New A.I. Gatekeepers (Second Request)

17

Ticketmaster's Extraction Engine (TCF Investigates)

18

What's the Beef With American Food? (Second Request)

19

Lawless Antitrust (Second Request)

20

Letting the Machine Decide: A.I. and Cognitive Surrender (Second Request)

21

Is the AI Boom About to Go Bust? (Second Request)

22

A.I.'s Least Informed Users Think It's Magic (Second Request)

23

The Quiet Crisis Inside Your Insurance Policy (TCF Investigates)

24

Corruption Enforcement Under Trump 2.0 (Second Request)

25

Can This Bank Account Help You Buy a House? (Second Request)

26

The Ticketmaster Lawsuit That Could've Been (Second Request)

27

Warner Bros. and the 2026 Antitrust Outlook with Seth Bloom (Second Request)

28

The DOJ's Ambiguous Proposed Settlement with RealPage (Second Request)

29

Xponential Fitness' Predatory Franchise Fiasco (TCF Investigates)

30

The Memory Chip Cartel (Second Request)

31

Will Roblox Survive its Day in Court? (TCF Investigates)

32

Airlines Know More About You Than You Think (TCF Investigates)

33

The Case Against AirBnb (Second Request)

34

How Financial Institutions Became Tools of U.S. Foreign Policy (Second Request)

35

How Amazon is Capturing Local Government Procurement (Second Request)

36

Zynex Fought The Capitol Forum and Ended Up Bankrupt (TCF Investigates)

37

American Electricity's Antitrust Dilemma

38

“Capital Crunch” and the U.S. Housing Supply Crisis (with Laurel Kilgour)

39

How the Meta Decision Changes Antitrust Enforcement

40

Building the Bottlenecks: The Impact of Homebuilder Consolidation (with Steven Xiao and Zheng Liu)

41

How the Soybean Became a Geopolitical Weapon

42

Is Roblox Safe for Kids?

43

The Future of Antitrust Enforcement: A Conversation with Michael Kades & Adam Gitlin

44

Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity with Chiara Longoni

45

“Mars/Kellanova: EC Leaning Towards Clearing Deal, Sources Say” with Javier Espinoza

46

The Antitrust Case Against AI Overviews with Madhavi Singh

47

U.S. v. Google Remedies with John Newman

48

Presidential Tariffs and Executive Power: Legal Challenges to the IEEPA Tariffs

49

Price Discrimination Laws—the Dormant Half of Our Antitrust Laws that Can Save Our Economy

50

How Courts Interpret Copyright in the Age of AI

51

Steris/Synergy a Decade Out: A Retrospective Assessment

52

Trump’s Trade Letters and the August 1st Deadline

53

Patenting and Pricing Eliquis, Ozempic, and Other Medicare-Targeted Drugs

54

Proposed Breakups of Live Nation/Ticketmaster with Tommy Dorfman

55

Google’s Role in Digital Advertising with Ari Paparo

56

Promoting AI Innovation Through Competition

57

Who’s Really Shaping RFK Jr.’s Health Agenda? Inside the Maha Influencers

58

Textiles, Trade & National Security: A Conversation with Parkdale Mills COO Davis Warlick

59

What Abundance Gets Wrong

60

The Hidden Monopoly: How Healthcare Platforms Threaten Competition

61

Doha Mekki on Labor, Mergers, Monopolies and the New Antitrust Agenda

62

Hannah Garden-Monheit, Max Berengaut and Jonathan Kanter on Price Fixing, Algorithms, Antitrust, and Rising Prices

63

Rebecca Slaughter, Katherine Tai and Jonathan Kanter on Getting Fired, Trade, and the Rule of Law

64

Jonathan Kanter & Rethinking Antitrust for the Modern Economy

65

Outlook for Congressional Competition Policy and Antitrust Enforcement During the Trump Administration with Slade Bond

66

UnitedHealth Group’s Vertical Consolidation with Hayden Rooke-Ley

67

Investor-Owned Utilities’ Excess Rates of Return with Mark Ellis

68

Fair and Competitive Markets at the U.S. Department of Agriculture with Andy Green

69

2025 Congressional Antitrust Outlook with Seth Bloom

70

Vestager Pushes Back Against Calls to Ease EU Merger Rules

71

Importance of the DOJ Live Nation Suit to Independent Venues with Stephen Parker

72

Mark Wetjen on Crypto Legislation in the Trump Administration

73

Ambassador Katherine Tai on U.S. Trade Policy in the Biden Administration

74

Talking Big Tech, Antitrust, and Refusals to Deal with Daniel Hanley

75

Market Concentration in Food & Agriculture with Sarah Carden and Basel Musharbash

76

The Hidden Costs of Electric Utility Monopoly Power with John Farrell

77

The Recent NAR Settlement and the Future of Residential Real Estate

78

Antitrust Economics at a Time of Upheaval

79

Jason Kint on the US vs. Google Antitrust Trial

80

The Re-Monopolization of the U.S. Sports Trading Card Industry

81

Capital One/Discover: A Competition Policy and Regulatory Deep Dive

82

Antitrust Enforcement - Past, Present, & Future with Bill Baer

83

Exploring Shifts in the Global Antitrust Landscape with Cristina Caffarra

84

John Newman on Antitrust, AI and Current FTC Cases

85

2024 Presidential Election Outlook with Michael Podhorzer

86

How Hackers Dox Doctors to Order Mountains of Oxy and Adderall

87

White House Competition Priorities: A Conversation with Bharat Ramamurti

88

A Discussion with Clean Virginia’s Brennan Gilmore

89

Unpacking the Litigation Against the National Association of Realtors with Real Estate Executive Jack Ryan and Antitrust Attorney Darren McCarty

90

A Deep Dive into the Google Trial and Tech Landscape with Seth Bloom

91

Kevin Erickson on Live Nation Entertainment

92

Untapped Government Policy Options for Getting Cheaper Generics to Market with Dr. Michael J. Birrer

93

Venture Predation: How Venture-Backed Startups Use Predatory Pricing to Suppress Competition

94

A Discussion with Shaoul Sussman on the DOJ and FTC’s New Merger Guidelines

95

Diana Moss to Swifties: This is How to Break Up Ticketmaster/Livenation

96

The Rise of Textualism in Antitrust Enforcement: A Conversation with Bob Lande

97

California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s Antitrust Priorities

98

The Real Reason Your Groceries Are Getting More Expensive with Stacy Mitchell

99

FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya Argues for Robinson-Patman Act Revitalization

100

Alleged Anticompetitive Conduct by Drug Wholesalers with Luke Slindee

101

Philip Mattera on Pay for Delay

102

Structural Presumption for Merger Review with Tommaso Valletti

103

The Coming Antitrust Wars in the Alcohol Market, with Harry Schuhmacher

104

Spotting Anticompetitive Conduct in Pharma Supply Chain, with Antonio Ciaccia

105

United Healthcare's Culture and Coverage Denial Crisis, with David Armstrong and Patrick Rucker

106

Analyzing the FTC's Ban on Noncompete Agreements with Sandeep Vaheesan

107

FTC’s Elizabeth Wilkins Discusses Proposed Ban on Non-Compete Agreements

108

Chokepoint Capitalism with Author Cory Doctorow

109

FTC Chair Lina Khan Discusses Unfair Methods of Competition

110

Microsoft/Activision with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer

111

Fixing "Litigating the Fix" with Professor Steve Salop

112

The Hidden Monopoly Driving Up Rents

113

Taking on Monopoly Power in Search with Neeva CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy

114

A Hidden Monopoly in Appalachia Driving Up Energy Prices

115

CVS and Signify: Value-Based Care or Risk Score Gaming?

116

Dr. Cristina Caffarra on the State of Europe’s Antitrust Regulation and Enforcement

117

The Weak Argument Jeopardizing Tech Antitrust Legislation with Gilad Edelman

118

Beat Inflation by Tackling Market Power and Supply Chain Crisis, Says Niko Lusiani

119

Bust Up Pharmaceutical Middlemen, Says Representative Buddy Carter

120

The Baby Formula Monopoly with Moe Tkacik

121

Solving Data-opoly Problems with Maurice Stucke

122

Stop Bank Mergers to Help Rural America, Says Basel Musharbash

123

Private Equity is Killing the American Economy, with Josh Kosman

124

Antitrust Super Influencers with Baron Public Affairs

125

Block the Spirit/Frontier Airlines Merger Argues Shahid Naeem

126

Fixing Pharma With Tahir Amin

127

Big Tech Litigation Outlook, with Jason Kint

128

Amazon Vs. The U.S. Postal Service, a Ted Tatos Talk

129

Matthew Buck Explains How America’s Supply Chains Got Railroaded

130

Jeff Horwitz on The Facebook Files

131

Evan Starr on The Economic Benefits of Banning Non-competes

132

Inflation, Monopoly, and Predictions for 2022 with Matt Stoller

133

Luke Herrine: FTC Should Reject the Conventional Folklore Around its Unfairness Authority

134

Amazon’s Toll Road with Stacy Mitchell, Co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance

135

Jeff Hauser: Cracking Down on Monopolies is Winning Politics

136

The “No Collusion” Rule by Brendan Ballou, DOJ Trial Attorney

137

Barry Lynn, Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute

138

The Honorable Bill Kovacic

139

Claire Kelloway on Meat Industry Consolidation’s Impact on Workers and Citizens

140

Seth Bloom’s Outlook for Antitrust Legislation

141

Ron Knox says, “Break up Big Music”

142

The Honorable William Baer

143

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