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Competition

This week's US Economic Experts Panel statements: A) Industry consolidation and weaker competition in the United States meaningfully constrain innovation and wage growth. B) Americans pay too much for broadband, cable television, and telecommunications services, in part because of a lack of adequate competition.
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Breaking Up Large Tech Companies

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statements: A) Forcing Amazon to divest Whole Foods now would be in the public interest. B) Acquisitions by large tech platforms where there are risks of anti-competitive effects like those posed by Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods should not be permitted. C) Large tech platforms, such as Amazon Marketplace and Google Search, should be designated as ‘platform utilities' and broken apart from any participant on that platform.