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How Amazon is Capturing Local Government Procurement (Second Request)
Episode 119
Amazon has inked contracts with local governments, municipalities and school districts that often bypasses the traditional guardrails in the procurem…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Zynex Fought The Capitol Forum and Ended Up Bankrupt (TCF Investigates)
Episode 118
Zynex was a medical device company on the rise. After experiencing decades of growth, Zynex’s founder Thomas Sandgaard had hopes of becoming a billio…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
American Electricity's Antitrust Dilemma
Episode 117
In this episode of Second Request, Executive Editor Teddy Downey sits down with Michael Murray, Katherine Wyszkowski, and Daniel Hanley to discuss th…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“Capital Crunch” and the U.S. Housing Supply Crisis (with Laurel Kilgour)
Episode 116
For decades the amount of small homebuilders in the United States has been dwindling. One reason is the shuttering of local financial networks. Today…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
How the Meta Decision Changes Antitrust Enforcement
Episode 115
After a federal judge rejected the Federal Trade Commission's argument that Meta has an illegal monopoly in the personal social media market, regulat…
9 months ago
Building the Bottlenecks: The Impact of Homebuilder Consolidation (with Steven Xiao and Zheng Liu)
Episode 114
Why is it so expensive to build a house in America?
That's a question economists, politicians and pundits have argued at length about, but can't agre…
9 months, 1 week ago
How the Soybean Became a Geopolitical Weapon
Episode 113
Why are American soybean farmers so reliant on Chinese markets?
In this episode of Second Request, Teddy Downey sits down with Wall Street Journal rep…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Is Roblox Safe for Kids?
Episode 111
How did a popular children's game become rife with sexual abuse?
In the debut episode of The Capitol Forum Investigates, technology and privacy report…
10 months ago
The Future of Antitrust Enforcement: A Conversation with Michael Kades & Adam Gitlin
Episode 110
In this episode, Teddy Downey, Executive Editor of The Capitol Forum sits down with Michael Kades, Antitrust Partner at Nachawati Law Group and forme…
10 months ago
U.S. v. Google Remedies with John Newman
Episode 105
In this conversation, Professor John Newman, from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, former FTC official and DOJ antitrust t…
10 months, 1 week ago