The Incoming Biden Administration i thought we should begin with kind of the big picture that you lay out in the book when people hear the title they might say of course. I think many people may not fully understand. Taking the time to talk about this book and thank you to cspan for having me here to talk about it as well. That isnt a surprise for anyone but what has been happening over the last several decades is our economy has been highly concentrated and theres been consolidation on an ongoing basis in every sector of the economy so we hear a lot about but not only are we talking about food or agriculture in the industry you will have a monopoly problem and im also talking about the duopoly is there are harms that flow from this that i want to highlight to help them understand what it means for their everyday life and how it affects them. As you write about, it is the Cable Service and industries. Can you talk about how we got to this point you sort of explain in the book that ther
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