You for coming on to discuss monopolies suck. Its a very timely book because the issues you write about in the book, the power of dominant companies in the u. S. Economy and the impact on workers and consumers and citizens is really a very hot topic in economics and policy making right now. And we will see but could play a big role in the incoming Biden Administration. So i thought we should begin with sort of the big picture about, that you lay out in the book. I think when people hear the title they might say of course, no one likes monopolies, no one likes dealing with monopolies. The religious book is about a bigger issue. You are warning about a warring trends across the economy that i think many people may not fully understand. I think you could maybe first set the scene for us and describe what you see happening. Guest first, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me today about this book, and thank you to cspan for having here to talk about it as well. We all know mon
S p by 11, nasdaq up by about 42 there were a few areas of the market yesterday that continued to outperform including the small caps russell 2000 coming off an alltime intra day high. And then there is the khodow trs trading at a record high and right now it looks like the ten year is yielding just about 0. 8 the transports a lot of times, they are an early indicator of what is to come, but maybe more difficult to glean what is happening this time given the overall virus situation. Yeah, it is and it is really not things Like Airlines so much driving the transports actually fedex and u. P. S. Are arguably kind of stayathome plays and they are also big components of the transports so really just kind of gone sideways in the last day or so, not much of a pullback just yet. So well very to see how that develops and in this context especially with the White House Task force painting a bleak picture on the near term outlook. The most recent report warns that there is, quote, now aggressive
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