A Crisis of Democracy: Matt Stoller on Monopoly Power, From Big Tech to China

Jan Jekielek

Senior Editor

Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”

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February 10, 2020Updated: February 10, 2020

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In the eyes of Open Markets Institute fellow Matt Stoller, how has the rise of monopolies and corporate centralization in America led to a crisis of democracy?

How did government policy contribute to this?

And, how has the Chinese Communist Party used monopoly power to its advantage against the U.S., using companies like Huawei?

This is American Thought Leaders ??, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

In this episode, we’ll sit down with Matt Stoller, author of “Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.” Previously, he was a Senior Policy Advisor and Budget Analyst to the Senate Budget Committee, and he also worked in the U.S. House of Representatives on Dodd-Frank, the Federal Reserve, and the foreclosure crisis.

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