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And just Wednesday, the FTC ordered DoorDash, Instacart, and other companies to provide the agency with detailed information about their use of personal data to set prices and compensation.

Lee Heppner, the senior legal counsel at the American Economic Liberties Project, said, Instacart and DoorDash has spent the better part of a decade bullying Main Street businesses and denying fair pay and benefits to their combined 9 million workers.

This merger represents the next frontier of data-driven abuse.

exploiting massive asymmetries of power to squeeze worker compensation on the way in and drain consumer wallets on the way out.

Ms. Wilkinson has been on the receiving end of such blowback.

In July, the American Economic Liberties Project, which sponsored the Bending the Knee conference, took aim at her in a news release about her client Nexstar, an owner of local ABC stations.

Critics on the left accused Nextar of keeping Jimmy Kimmel off the air for days after ABC lifted his brief suspension over controversial statements in order to cozy up to the Trump administration and win its approval to buy another media company.

After a group of attorneys general accused Nexstar of defying a judicial order to keep the company separate while they challenged the merger, the American Economic Liberties Project urged the judge to punish executives at Nexstar for violating the order and to refer Ms. Wilkinson and a colleague for sanctions.

These are sophisticated actors who know they are actively flouting a judicial order and showing contempt for the court and the rule of law, a spokesperson for the group said at the time.

Ms. Wilkinson noted in a legal filing that the actions were stipulated by Nexstar's merger agreement and that the company never hid them from public view.

And thanks for having me on here.

So as you said, I'm an assistant professor at BU and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.

Broadly, I am a political economist focused on antitrust, monopoly, economic power, and a lot of the policy and political areas therein.

So I have a book out last year about the evolution of these policy areas in the United States and France over the 20th century.

And companies, presumably including these railroads attempting to merge, are well aware that the costs of those conditions are much smaller than getting the merger through in the first place and then largely ignoring those requirements.

Again, we are talking with Eric Peinert.

He is an assistant professor at Boston University and also a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.

Eric, you have given us some great information to work with today.

They said, quote, was more natural and logical, end quote.

Senior Fellow for Aviation and Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project, William J. McGee, he told USA Today recently that if he had things to say about this, it's really going to hurt the consumers because you're going to be given fewer rights in terms of compensation through meals, hotels, and things like that,

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which is spot on, yes, because as of February 1st, these 10 incidents will no longer be listed as being under an airline's control, and they are aircraft cleaning due to the death of a passenger, aircraft damage caused by extreme weather, foreign objects, or sabotage, a baggage or cargo loading delay due to outages not controlled by the airline or its contractor, a cybersecurity attack, a government system shutdown or failure, overheated brakes during a safety incident, unscheduled maintenance, a medical emergency, the removal of an unruly passenger, and airport closure due to weather events such as wind or volcanic ash.

So I'm a little bit bummed about that.

But to learn about where all these high costs are coming from, we sat down with, uh, Katie Van Dyck from American Economic Liberties Project, and she's got a new article out on this topic of where all these high subscription costs are coming from-

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... and how it relates to antitrust, is that the NFL, including all of its teams, act as a collective group, especially when negotiating national TV broadcasting deals.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

I'm Teddy Downey, executive editor here at The Capital Forum.

Today, I'm very pleased to be joined by Katie Van Dyck, senior legal fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, longtime friend of The Capital Forum.

She recently wrote the article How An Obscure Law Lets Sports Leagues Rob Fans Blind, which examines how the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 helped shape today's fragmented and increasingly expensive sports media ecosystem.

I'm Olivia Kosloff.

I'm a senior fellow at American Economic Liberties Project.

And so a lot of the drugs that were taken in the U.S. were manufactured by U.S. companies that were industrial suppliers that were coming out of World War II.

Around 2000, when we normalized trade relations with China, is really when this offshoring process started, and it happened very slowly at first.

He also served as the chief economist.

Now he's a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, an independent consultant, an expert witness in finance and utility regulatory proceedings.

He's also a co-founder of MarketClear Utility Capital, which we'll get to.

Mark Ellis, welcome to the Energy Capital Podcast.

I'm JQ, back with more Explain It To Me.

Helaine Olen is the managing editor at the American Economic Liberties Project, an antitrust organization.

She's also a dog person.

My current child is Barney Rubble, and he's a Havanese poodle mix.