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The Capitol Forum Podcast — 134 episodes

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1

The Surveillance Economy, Part Two (TCF Investigates)

2

The Surveillance Economy, Part One (TCF Investigates)

3

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

4

The Future of Sports Streaming (Second Request)

5

Who Runs the Skies? (Second Request)

6

The Secret History of Forced Arbitration (Second Request)

7

The New A.I. Gatekeepers (Second Request)

8

Ticketmaster's Extraction Engine (TCF Investigates)

9

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

10

Lawless Antitrust (Second Request)

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

The Quiet Crisis Inside Your Insurance Policy (TCF Investigates)

15

Corruption Enforcement Under Trump 2.0 (Second Request)

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

Xponential Fitness' Predatory Franchise Fiasco (TCF Investigates)

21

The Memory Chip Cartel (Second Request)

22

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

23

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

24

The Case Against AirBnb (Second Request)

25

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

26

How Amazon is Capturing Local Government Procurement (Second Request)

27

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

28

American Electricity's Antitrust Dilemma

29

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

30

How the Meta Decision Changes Antitrust Enforcement

31

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

32

How the Soybean Became a Geopolitical Weapon

33

Is Roblox Safe for Kids?

34

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

35

Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity with Chiara Longoni

36

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

37

The Antitrust Case Against AI Overviews with Madhavi Singh

38

U.S. v. Google Remedies with John Newman

39

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

40

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

41

How Courts Interpret Copyright in the Age of AI

42

Steris/Synergy a Decade Out: A Retrospective Assessment

43

Trump’s Trade Letters and the August 1st Deadline

44

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

45

Proposed Breakups of Live Nation/Ticketmaster with Tommy Dorfman

46

Google’s Role in Digital Advertising with Ari Paparo

47

Promoting AI Innovation Through Competition

48

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

49

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

50

What Abundance Gets Wrong

51

The Hidden Monopoly: How Healthcare Platforms Threaten Competition

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

Jonathan Kanter & Rethinking Antitrust for the Modern Economy

56

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

57

UnitedHealth Group’s Vertical Consolidation with Hayden Rooke-Ley

58

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

59

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

60

2025 Congressional Antitrust Outlook with Seth Bloom

61

Vestager Pushes Back Against Calls to Ease EU Merger Rules

62

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

63

Mark Wetjen on Crypto Legislation in the Trump Administration

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

The Hidden Costs of Electric Utility Monopoly Power with John Farrell

68

The Recent NAR Settlement and the Future of Residential Real Estate

69

Antitrust Economics at a Time of Upheaval

70

Jason Kint on the US vs. Google Antitrust Trial

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

Exploring Shifts in the Global Antitrust Landscape with Cristina Caffarra

75

John Newman on Antitrust, AI and Current FTC Cases

76

2024 Presidential Election Outlook with Michael Podhorzer

77

How Hackers Dox Doctors to Order Mountains of Oxy and Adderall

78

White House Competition Priorities: A Conversation with Bharat Ramamurti

79

A Discussion with Clean Virginia’s Brennan Gilmore

80

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

81

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

82

Kevin Erickson on Live Nation Entertainment

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s Antitrust Priorities

89

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

90

FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya Argues for Robinson-Patman Act Revitalization

91

Alleged Anticompetitive Conduct by Drug Wholesalers with Luke Slindee

92

Philip Mattera on Pay for Delay

93

Structural Presumption for Merger Review with Tommaso Valletti

94

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

95

Spotting Anticompetitive Conduct in Pharma Supply Chain, with Antonio Ciaccia

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

Chokepoint Capitalism with Author Cory Doctorow

100

FTC Chair Lina Khan Discusses Unfair Methods of Competition

101

Microsoft/Activision with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer

102

Fixing "Litigating the Fix" with Professor Steve Salop

103

The Hidden Monopoly Driving Up Rents

104

Taking on Monopoly Power in Search with Neeva CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy

105

A Hidden Monopoly in Appalachia Driving Up Energy Prices

106

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

107

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

108

The Weak Argument Jeopardizing Tech Antitrust Legislation with Gilad Edelman

109

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

110

Bust Up Pharmaceutical Middlemen, Says Representative Buddy Carter

111

The Baby Formula Monopoly with Moe Tkacik

112

Solving Data-opoly Problems with Maurice Stucke

113

Stop Bank Mergers to Help Rural America, Says Basel Musharbash

114

Private Equity is Killing the American Economy, with Josh Kosman

115

Antitrust Super Influencers with Baron Public Affairs

116

Block the Spirit/Frontier Airlines Merger Argues Shahid Naeem

117

Fixing Pharma With Tahir Amin

118

Big Tech Litigation Outlook, with Jason Kint

119

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

120

Matthew Buck Explains How America’s Supply Chains Got Railroaded

121

Jeff Horwitz on The Facebook Files

122

Evan Starr on The Economic Benefits of Banning Non-competes

123

Inflation, Monopoly, and Predictions for 2022 with Matt Stoller

124

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

125

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

126

Jeff Hauser: Cracking Down on Monopolies is Winning Politics

127

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

128

Barry Lynn, Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute

129

The Honorable Bill Kovacic

130

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

131

Seth Bloom’s Outlook for Antitrust Legislation

132

Ron Knox says, “Break up Big Music”

133

The Honorable William Baer

134

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