ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell was recently a guest on the popular podcast “Bad With Money,” where she talked with host Gaby Dunn about Amazon and monopoly power. The episode also features Lina Khan, Jessica Bruder, and Nicole Aschoff.
In the episode, Gaby Dunn “starts out by second-guessing some of her recent Amazon Prime purchases — and then starts to question a whole lot more,” as the episode’s introduction puts it. The show goes on to “investigate Amazon’s chokehold on the American consumer experience, and whether we ought to be fighting harder to break free from its clutches.”
Check out the episode online, or through your podcast app of choice.
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