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Second Request

The Capitol Forum

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Exploring Solutions to Monopoly Problems Following forty years of laissez-faire antitrust enforcement and industry consolidation, the White House is considering a fundamental rethink of how to interpret, enforce, and rewrite antitrust law, and many questions remain unanswered for the antitrust community. On the heels of federal and state litigation against Google and Facebook, is Amazon next? Will the new administration put big agriculture, big banks, and big pharma in its crosshairs? Will t ...
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Community or Chaos

Marvin Hubbard

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Marvin Hubbard presents an hour of interesting and eclectic and topical radio. Marvin interviews a wide range of people from religious leaders and teachers through to ecological activists and touring musicians. Supported by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
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Antitrust attorney Basel Musharbash and Farm Action’s Sarah Carden discuss a groundbreaking report on corporate control in American agriculture. Commissioned by Farm Action and written by Basel, ’Kings Over the Necessaries of Life' dives into the history of competition policy in agriculture, current market concentration levels, and strategies for r…
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Public healthcare underfunded financial crisis - Prof Peter CramptonFormer Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Division of Health Sciences. University of Otago.We will be discussing the crisis of public accessible healthcare Aotearoa NZ due to a tax system that benefits the one percent and destroys our public superstructures by negligent under funding!Broadcast o…
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Civil Disobedience against Fontera's coal trains - Ben Neville Attorney representing Extinction Rebellion Protesters against Fontera's coal trains. We will discuss our ethical moral obligations in the face of central crisis for humanity and the rest of life on earth. Do we have an obligation to save the lives of our great grandchildren where is our…
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Budgeting in runaway capitalism - Andrew Henderson Budget Advice Executive Officer discussing how to cope with budgeting in an inflationary recession, and unjust tax system that privileges the rich and exploits the average kiwi!Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
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Predatory Electricity Prices - Craig Rennie Economist and Director of Policy at New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. We willWe will talk about The extraordinary high price of electricity in New Zealand and his effect on householders and industry in New Zealand. We also talk how the present freemarket structure producing electricity rewards power sh…
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Dunedin Hospital Rebuild Crisis - Pete Hodgson Former MP and former overseer of the construction of the new Dunedin hospital. We will asking if the is the hospital rebuild is in serious danger of cuts that may affect it's capacity to meet Otago's healthcare needs in the future and may also impact on the medical school and the hospital as a teaching…
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Free market profit driven Power Crisis - Prof Stephen Poletti’s expertise is in energy economics & industrial organisation. We will discuss allowing the free-market to control our energy development and distribution to be driven by profit motive policy encourage the drive for profits over the need for secure non-carbon energy. And have electricity …
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Civilisation and Democracy in Crisis - Jonathan Boston, Professor of Policy Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Government.He is the Author of a report prepared for the environmental Defence society on Managed Retreat and was the author of Transforming the Welfare State and Moving Towards a New Social Contract. In August he w…
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Remembering Hiroshima - Kevin Clements is the former director and Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies center at the University of Otago, and Secr Gen.f the International Peace Research Association. Kevin Clements, is t now Director of Toda Peace Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research) Japan> we will be discussing the nuclear bomb…
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NZ infrastructure crash Local effects - Jim O'Malley Dunedin city counsellor Jim O'Malley Chair of the Infrastructure Services Committee. &the DCC representative of the Otago-Southland Regional Transport Committee.How Dunedin can deal with critical infrastructure crisis nationwide with a government governing as though for the mid 20th century?Broad…
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The Politics of Europe - Prof Robert Patman is a leading New Zealand University Otago academic in the field of international relations. Robert Patman on his recent accolade; the 2024 Critic and Conscience of Society Award, given by Universities New Zealand’s Gama Foundation. We will discuss the surge of right-wing populism in Europe and the Respons…
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No Ferrys for the South Island - Victor Billot, Maritime Union. Communication and media spokesperson on the grounding of the Aratee Cook Street ferry shortly after the government cancellation of the order for two large roll on rolloff capable ferrys. Is the present government going back to the 20th century do we have a retrograde government when it…
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Climate emergency human catastrophe - John Drummond has written a series of articles on the need for urgent action on mitigating Climate Change and repairing resilience.The question is is it possible for us to respond to Climate Change and why and what political and economic realities hold us back from dealing with Climate Change in an effective wa…
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Co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and director of the Energy Democracy Initiative, John Farrell, discusses his recent report on the 100-year-old business model granting private exclusive power over the public resource of electricity. Learn about the abuses that come from allowing private monopoly power to control electricity, inc…
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RIMPAC Pacific Rim military exercise - Kevin Clements on RIMPAC former director & Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies Center at Otago, and Secr. Gen. of the International Peace Research Association. Kevin is now Director of Toda Peace Institute located in Japan. We're talking about NZ participating with 29 other nations including Israel …
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Community Dialogue Community Peace - Jeremy Simons is a senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Restorative Practice at Victoria University of Wellington. Jeremy wrote after Dunedin Bus Hub knifing that before, during and after any eruption of violence, are a variety of personal fears, social pressures, and unmet human needs.The recent death was n…
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Gaza an unacceptable humanitarian crisis - Stephen Zunes - Professor of international relations at the University of San Francisco specializing in the Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, and strategic nonviolent action. We speculated on whether Israel's overwhelmingly disproportionate response to Hamas sneak terroristic attack on Israe ci…
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On this episode of Second Request, The Capitol Forum’s Teddy Downey speaks with CEO of REX, Jack Ryan, and RealClearMarkets Editor John Tamny about the recent settlement involving the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and its implications for the real estate industry and homeowners. Jack and John are the authors of a new book entitled Bringing…
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Hear the editors of the new book Antitrust Economics at a Time of Upheaval: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents discuss the recent resurgence and transformation in competition policy and economics in the US, the EU and the UK. Professors John Kwoka, Tommaso Valletti and Lawrence White talk to Capitol Forum Executive Editor Teddy Downe…
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This is budget sacrificing the future - Craig Renney Economist and Director of Policy at New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. Craig and I talked about how this budget is sacrificing future generations for Apparent political gain. We also talked about the tax savings going to those like landlords who needed at least while those who need the most fin…
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NZ + AuKus - Prof Prof Robert Patman is a leading New Zealand University Otago academic in the field of international relations. He Received the accolade; the 2024 Critic and Conscience of Society Award, given by Universities New Zealand’s Gama Foundation.. We talked about Aukus and it's impact on nuclear free Pacific as in the treaty of Rarotonga …
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Funding Crisis in Healthcare Impact on Nursing - Anne Daniels President NZ) urses Organisation NZNO Anne Daniel 14th May 2024 Early in her nursing journey Anne’s strong sense of justice led her to become an NZNO delegate, then Convenor for Thames Hospital/Hauraki Plains NZNO members, leading nurses through strikes and restructuring. She worked with…
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Listen in as Capitol Forum Executive Editor Teddy Downey interviews the authors of a recent paper entitled “The Re-Monopolization of the U.S. Sports Trading Card Industry.” Authors Marc Edelman, Nathaniel Grow and John Holden discuss the history of US sports trading cards leading up to sports retailer Fanatics’ consolidation of the $8B industry. Le…
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Neoliberalism A conspiracy? - Charles Pigden Professor of Philosophy at Otago University He is Burtrude Russell scholar'. More interestingly Pigden also an expert on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories, being the first to revive the issue after Popper’s denunciations of conspiracy theorizing in the fifties. We will be discussing the case for Neol…
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Hear senior policy analyst at Economic Liberties Shahid Naeem discuss his findings from a recent report on the proposed Capital One/Discover merger, which, if approved, would create the U.S.’s sixth-largest bank and No. 1 credit card issuer. Shahid evaluates the strength of Capital One’s “merge-to-compete” defense in an increasingly challenging enf…
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On the latest episode of The Capitol Forum’s Second Request podcast, Executive Editor Teddy Downey speaks with one of the world’s best known and most respected antitrust/competition enforcers, Bill Baer. As the only person to have led antitrust enforcement at both U.S. antitrust agencies, Bill offers unique insight into how antitrust enforcement ha…
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On this episode of Second Request, renowned antitrust expert Cristina Caffarra talks to Executive Editor of The Capitol Forum, Teddy Downey, about how the major shift underway in US antitrust is propagating across the globe. Listen to the podcast to learn what implications the shift has for antitrust, trade and industrial policy across the US, Euro…
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Gun Control or Gun Massacres - Kevin Clements is the former director and was the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies, Founding Director of the New Zealand National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) at Otago, &Sec. Gen. of the International Peace Research Association. Kevin Clements, is the new Director Toda Peace Institute i…
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On this episode of Second Request, The Capitol Forum’s Teddy Downey speaks with former FTC deputy director and DOJ trial attorney, John Newman, about the current antitrust landscape in the US. Currently a Professor of Law at Miami University, John is an expert on antitrust and competition law, with a primary focus on the economics and regulation of…
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Experienced election analyst Michael Podhorzer talks to Executive Editor of The Capitol Forum, Teddy Downey, about the 2024 presidential election. Listen to the podcast to learn more about what polling and historical voting patterns can and can’t tell us about prospective outcomes. They also discuss the roles and responsibilities of the press durin…
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404 Media co-founder and journalist Joseph Cox discusses his latest investigation into how hackers and fraudsters are illegally accessing sensitive drug ordering tools and then advertising some of the most tightly controlled drugs in the country, including fentanyl. Communicating directly with the hackers and fraudsters themselves, Joseph was able …
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Abolish The Military - Prof. Richard Jackson Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS). His interest’s nature, causes, & resolution of organized forms of political violence. He is the Editor of the Critical Studies on Terrorism. He has recently written “Abolishing the Military” Published by BWB text.Broadcast on OAR 10…
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Fringe Festival - Kate Schrader and Ruth Harvey were appointed last year as co-directors of the 'Dunedin Fringe FestivalBoth Ms Harvey and Ms Schrader have previously held part-time senior roles in the organisation, and are enjoying the transition to jointly steering the DFAT stable of projects.We will discuss the history of Fringe Festival's inter…
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Dr. Reuwer is a retired doctor and a veteran of Unarmed Civilian Protection teams in Palestine/Israel, Ukraine, South Sudan, Haiti, Colombia, and Central America, as Reuwer share sWBW’s vision for alternative security. His goal is to learn what in the New Zealand record of peacemaking (such as New Zealand’s declaration of a nuclear-free zone) compl…
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The present situation with Covid - Professor Michael Baker - And is our medical and health institutions well enough funded and supported to deal with future pandemics and the every day health needs of new Zealanders?Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
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On this episode of Second Request, Executive Editor of The Capitol Forum, Teddy Downey, speaks to former Deputy Director for the National Economic Council Bharat Ramamurti about the White House’s approach to improving competition across all sectors of the economy. During his time on the National Economic Council, Bharat played a key role in develop…
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On this episode of Second Request, executive director of Clean Virginia, Brennan Gilmore, discusses the biggest successes and challenges Clean Virginia has experienced working to advance clean government and clean energy. Listen to the podcast to learn about the history of Virginia’s monopoly utility regulation and the influence Dominion Energy, Vi…
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Jack Ryan, cofounder and CEO of the real estate brokerage REX, and Darren McCarty, lead lawyer in the current antitrust litigation for REX, discuss the recent litigation against the National Association of Realtors and what it means for the future of residential real estate.
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Legal expert Seth Bloom delves into the Google antitrust trial, amidst the current legal landscape, tech trends, and evolving regulatory environment. Analyzing the trial's dynamics, he and host Teddy Downey explore the role of Judge Mehta, potential outcomes, and the broader implications for the tech industry. The conversation extends to AI, cloud …
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Kevin Erickson, director of the Future of Music Coalition, discusses the DOJ and State AGs’ monopolization investigations into Live Nation and how anticompetitive conduct in the industry hurts musicians and fans. Kevin and host Teddy Downey lay out what regulators, enforcers, and policymakers can do to encourage competition, diversity of practice, …
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