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Well I hope this a good thing, and won't lead to price gouging.

The trend of corporate consolidation is concerning, we need more monopoly busting, and anti-trust investigations.

I agree the trend is concerning, but what data are you basing the “need” for monopoly busting and anti trust investigations off of??

It sounds like he's thinking about all the times this has happened in the past.

Antitrust activities while still provided for in US law have essentially stopped in the modern era, leading to massive concentration of power and economic disasters associated with monopoly and consolidation (e.g. financial crisis). So a general call to bring that job of the federal government back is certainly a welcome one.

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