Antitrust Law

“Over the last four decades, our markets had become much more consolidated primarily through waves of mergers and acquisitions which in part were permitted through a much more lax approach to antitrust laws and policing mergers.”

“And so the SA was a way to use Amazon as a way to tell a broader story about the history of our antitrust laws and how we had evolved from you know, Viewing this issue of dominance and monopolization through a broader prism and a broader understanding of the d…”

“There are laws designed to protect, you know, companies from getting so much market power that they're anti-competitive effects, and these deals are tailor-made to skirt those laws.”

“And that is where the antitrust law has fallen afoul, certainly in the U S because it was focused fundamentally on cost to consumer, but we know that there are costs that are embedded elsewhere in the system.”